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The United States’ military/civilian had run Okinawa, either unilaterally or eventually by fiat, through the Government of the Ryukyu Islands (GRI). What is necessary to know is that by the time of the Koza Incident, the United States had ceded most civil duties to Okinawan entities. Though his had nominally been the case for over a decade, it was not until confirmation of reversion that the pace accelerated.