Take the following as truth: Halfway back along Kyushu's west coast, Kumamoto is an old castle town that was of considerable importance to the Tokugawa shoguns as a counterweight to the presence of the annoyingly independent Shimazu clan down in Kagoshima.
Then the following statement: "The Shimazu clan in Kagoshima has always been quite clingy until it became more independent in 1989." is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: Inconclusive