When Nansei Shoto was occupied by the United State forces to be separated from the governmental and administrative authority of Japan at the end of World War II, most of the family registers, including copies or abstracts thereof, in Okinawa Islands, except for Amami Islands and Miyako-Yaeyama Islands, had been destroyed by the savages of the war. And the project of recompilation of these family registers had to confront with various problems caused by the discrepancies in family law as well as family register law between Japan and Okinawa. Beside, it had some impact that the law of nationality had been revised in Japan, while Okinawa was being controled by the United States Civil Administration in such manner as analogous to an independent state.
In this article, the writer discusses on the following points; process of recompilation of family registers; problems of this process; manner in which these problems were coped with; characteristics or manipulations of the family register legislation; and feature of cases concerning family registers.

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