Japan Sees Chinese Groups Backing Okinawa Independence Activists

[BuddhaPalm]

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...groups-backing-okinawa-independence-activists



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Ryukyu Republic's liberation from Japanese and American occupation is coming soon! The Japanese are heading for a world of pain as China moves swiftly to finish them off.

 

[ahojunk]

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Japan Sees Chinese Groups Backing Okinawa Independence Activists
by Isabel Reynolds
December 26, 2016, 4:26 PM GMT+11

• China seeks to divide public opinion in Japan, spy agency says
• Agency says need to watch Chinese actions concerning Okinawa

Chinese universities and think tanks are forming ties with Okinawan independence groups in a bid to divide public opinion in Japan, a Japanese government agency said in an annual report.

By deepening ties with independence activists on the subtropical islands that host the bulk of U.S. forces in Japan, China hopes to swing public opinion in its favor and spark a split within Japan, the Public Security Intelligence Agency said without elaborating. The agency also said in the report published last week that Japan must pay attention to Chinese activities with regard to Okinawa.

There was no immediate response to a request for comment from China’s foreign ministry.

Asia’s two largest economies are in dispute over the ownership of a group of uninhabited islets near Taiwan, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. Official media in China have also suggested that Beijing should refuse to accept Japanese sovereignty over the main islands of Okinawa, which maintained ties with both countries prior to annexation by Japan in the 19th century.

Tensions between Okinawa and mainland Japan have grown in recent years, with many of the 1.4 million residents resenting the burden of hosting the U.S. military. Even so, the independence movement has so far failed to gain momentum. A poll conducted by the Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper in May 2015 found two-thirds favored the status quo, while 21 percent said they wanted more self-determination as a Japanese region and just over 8 percent said they were pro-independence.

Japan is bolstering its own defenses on some of Okinawa’s more remote islands amid tensions with China’s navy and coastguard. Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force said Sunday it detected six Chinese ships including the Liaoning aircraft carrier sailing into the Western Pacific near Okinawa -- the first time the navy has spotted the Liaoning entering the ocean from the East China Sea.

The intelligence agency also referred in its report to an Aug. 12 opinion piece in China’s Communist Party-affiliated Global Times, which it quoted as saying that China should use the old name Ryukyu to refer to the islands, because calling them Okinawa was tantamount to accepting Japanese sovereignty.

 

[Place Of Space]

Ryukyu kingdom and Korea kingdom were the same status in East Asia international relationships.

 

[oprih]

Okinawans are being oppressed by the japanese government by being forced to host the problematic us military bases, I won't be shocked that in the near future, okinawans will revolt against japan.

 

[beijingwalker]

They still observe their tradition celebrating Chinese new year.

 

[Daniel808]

A scene in Ryukyu (Okinawa): Chinese national flags are placed along side with slogans demanding to shut down the US military bases in Ryukyu Islands.



A Historical Link Between The Middle Kingdom And The Ryukyu People

An annual parade in Ryukyu Islands (also known as Okinawa, 琉球岛) reflects its special historical link with the Middle Kingdom - China. The locals carry the royal saddens with figures of royal couple dressed in traditional Chinese costume.

Okinawa used to be an independent Ryukyu Kingdom
This is the Homepage of Independent Ryukyu Kingdom
Let's get rid of the alien rule from the US military forces and Japan

Despite the Japanese government protested over China's version of Ryukyu Islands' history, the version presented by China, nevertheless, is the historical fact, reported the Ryukyu Times on Friday.

"Ryukyu intellectuals all have a Chinese name, which is an attempt to maintain their cultural link with both China and Japan and reflect a history of peaceful co-existence with the both countries," said Hamashita, former Director of Archaeological Center of Okinawa Prefecture, who has a Chinese name "孙中路”.

However, historically Ryukyu's co-existence with its selfish and violent neighbour Japan was never a peaceful one.

Ryukyu has a history as an independent kingdom for more than a thousand years with a close cultural, political and military ties to the Middle Kingdom. In fact, a great number of the local residents are Chinese descendents with their ancestors initially migrated from China's Fujian Province.

Yet a proud kingdom was destroyed abruptly in 1879 when Japanese invaded Ryukyu and turned it into a second class prefecture of Japan.

According to Potsdam Declaration (Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender) that was jointly released by the United State, China and Britain on July 26 1945 and later became the foundation of Japanese Constitution, "Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and such minor islands as we determine, as had been announced in the Cairo Declaration in 1943".

And the Cairo Declaration announced that all the territories Japan has taken from China such as Manchuria (Dongbei), Formosa (Taiwan), and the Pescadores (Penghu), shall be restored to China, and Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed. And Ryukyu Island IS the territory that was seized by Japan through military conquest thus must be relinquished without condition.

When Japanese government learned that it had to give up all occupied territories, including Ryukyu, it conducted a genocidal massacre in the islands in which 260,000 Ryukyu people died, that is the second largest mass execution of civilians by Japanese army during the WWII. The biggest mass murder occurred in Nanjing.

Since the United States illegally helped Japan to take over the Ryukyu Islands again 27 years after Japan's retreat from the territory following its unconditioned surrender,the locals are once again condemned to a life of second class citizen, and the resistant movement against Japanese rule and the US military presence has never ceased in the past 40 years.

In 2006, Ryukyu independence movement issued a jointed statement "Ryukyu Independence Declaration".


Ryukyu Islands is NOT part of Japan.

 

[rcrmj]

凡日月所照，江河所至，皆为汉土
this day will come````

 

[TaiShang]

Okinawans are being oppressed by the japanese government by being forced to host the problematic us military bases, I won't be shocked that in the near future, okinawans will revolt against japan.

Okinawa is a military zone that has never been entirely returned back to Japan. Ever since the US wrote a Constitution for Japan, it created two entities; one is politically subjugated pacific Japan, the other militarily subjugated Okinawa.

Ever since, Okinawa has been suffering under the de facto US military occupation with all the hazards that come with it, including thievery, abduction, rape, and murder by the US military personnel.

It is a true disgrace.

And, historically, during the WWII, more Okinawans were killed by the US than the mainland Japanese with the two atomic bombs.

Okinawa has always had that spirit of anti-US imperialism.

They deserve two options:

1. A normal, de-militarized (cleansed from the US military presence entirely) Japanese region.
2. Or, an independent, political entity with power to forcefully kick the unwanted US military out of the region.

Currently, against the will of the Okinawan people, Tokyo maintains the US military occupation. If Tokyo continues to not recognize the popular will of the people (70% of all US military personal is in Okinawa while Okinawa is only 1% of Japan's land), then the people have the right for self-determination.

The cancerous situation is not that Okinawa is part of Japan; the problem is that Okinawa is a militarized colony with a foreign military power whose personnel is not subject to the law of the land.

 

[gambit]

So China does meddle in other countries' affairs.

 

[TaiShang]

with many of the 1.4 million residents resenting the burden of hosting the U.S. military.

It is not a burden. As a Japanese classmate of mine once told me "You would not a cancerous tumor like a burden, you would simply want to cut it out."

Okinawans are overwhelmingly demanding the removal of the US forces. Tokyo's partnership in crime with the US has been creating resentment not only against the US, but also against Tokyo itself.

 

[dlclong]

So China does meddle in other countries' affairs.

Ryukyu was a tributory of China,just like Korea, invaded by Japan, , after World War II, according to Potsdam announced that Japan has no ryukyu sovereignty,
just Like Korea, Ryukyu should also independent or return to China, no other countries' affairs

 

[52051]

Ryuku was a tributal state of China before, and has nothing to do with Japanese

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

The full recovery of diaoyu will be accompanied by that of liuqiu.

 

[nang2]

So China does meddle in other countries' affairs.

Only in return.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

So China does meddle in other countries' affairs.

Learning from the great teacher -- United States of America!