I lost both maternal grandparents during the war II! I was born and raised in the US. I recently returned my mother's ashes to Okinawa. She never said Hate, but she stated the Japanese soldiers came into the caves where they were hiding, and shot up the inhabitants! That's where my grandparents were, with their family! Painful history!
I'm also Okinawan, my grandparents were both orphans because of the battle fought there during World War II. My great grandfather owned a barber shop, until he bought land on the coast and created a rock quarry, he was killed in the bombings. My grandfather inherited everything, the family business, because everyone died, including his older brother who died overseas serving as a Japanese soldier. They did hide in the caves. My mother was born and raised in Okinawa, and my father was a US Marine. He lived in Okinawa for years, learned the language, loved it there. Okinawa used to be a really happening place back in the 80s. I was born in the states, but I lived in Okinawa for a few years when I was a kid. I speak a mixture of Japanese and Okinawan phrases, confuse the hell out of some Japanese people. Most people in Japan love Americans, and are very curious about our culture. Not so much with other foreigners though. It's rare to hear about other Okinawan-Americans, we are unique people. We've been oppressed and almost driven to extinction for like the past several thousand years, but here we are still hanging on by a thread. We have the longest lifespan of any race in the world, and We are also known for our incredible strength for our size, we are pure bred survivors. You should be proud of your heritage.
My mother was forced to nurse wounded Japanese soldiers in the southern caves. When the Americans approached the cave the Japanese would not let the civilians surrender. She was wounded by a grenade and her friends were killed.
I'm from Okinawa, but mostly grew up in the US. My mom was very stern about us being Okinawan and not Japanese. Tbh, I would even go as far as to say she was a bit racist towards Japanese, but my great-grandmother, from what I've heard, definitely had a hatred for Japan.
Understandable, they were colonized and suffered atrocities under Japanese occupation. Now the Japanese government is forcing the to host an American base that’s contaminating their water supply and crimes run rampant.
Japan killed 25% of the Okinawan population during WWII. It’s a testament to your family’s compassion (or your ignorance) that that they didn’t pass down their hatred to you.
I recently learned from a DNA test that I'm 30% "Okinawan prefect" which was a shock in some way because my family has only ever called themselves Japanese. Down a rabbit hole learning about our origins and I'm finding it amazing how the Okinawan/Ryukuan culture has much more of a soul resonance with myself when before I had very little identification of the "Japanese culture". Seems that even though the history was not passed down, the culture was.
I feel exactly the same way. I am 50% Okinawan, and 50% German-American. My spirit is much more attached to Okinawa and the lost ryukyu past than the Japanese one. Although my family does have a samurai history, one where a Japanese samurai fell in love with an Okinawan peasant farmer girl, and their baby was samurai but only half samurai, so it was raised within the walls of the compound but never allowed inside the walls of the castle. Supposedly I am a descendant of that half Okinawan, half Japanese samurai child who was treated like a half breed. Now I am half Okinawan, half American, my father being a US marine, and my mother Okinawan. History repeating itself. Kinda strange reminds me of that cloud atlas movie lol. I really do think there is some time of ancestral dna memories that we have, or maybe it's entirely a spiritual or metaphysical connection. Anyways what do I know. You should be proud of your Okinawan heritage, we are very rare, as we have almost been driven to extinction multiple times recently and our culture erased by the Japanese. We need to stick together and help each other to thrive abundantly, and for our next generations too.
I am Chinese and thank you very much for your video, even if you don’t talk about the historical friendship between the Ming Dynasty and the Ryukyu Kingdom. Just talking about what the Ryukyu people have been through in the last 100 years, they very much deserved independence after World War II.
Hi I'm Ryukyu Okiman. I really like to teache my som to about Ryukyu Okimawa history ! this iq good to learn. thank you so much. I hope Ryukyu kingdam independent in fututor!
First: Organizing a Ryukyu Independent Organization. Second: Save Ryukyu culture action. Save Ryukyu characters, languages, costumes, songs and dances, etc. Third: Supervisors should meet regularly to discuss how to achieve Ryukyu independence.
Have you included the information that Okinawa is to return to its independence after WWII according to the peace treaty. Despite that the US occupies Okinawa and later passed on the "right of governance but not the right of sovereignty" of Okinawa to Japan? Up till today, the official sovereignty is still temporarily held by the United Nation according to this treaty and because of the complicated status of US and Japan occupation
I spent my 19th birthday along Orawan bay in northern Okinawa. Lived there for a year. Ate the jungle dirt, camped in the jungle, got stung by a jellyfish. Loved the Okinawan people.
Wow, I thought the video was great... I am recently learning a lot of history and through my work have been in Okinawa for the past week. It's also amazing reading through some of the comments from other half or part Okinawan people. My mother was 100% Okinawan, the last of many siblings, maybe 10 or 11 children...but she was adopted by an American military dad and Okinawan mom. She never learned any of the history or culture and never had the opportunity to come here or found family. I am given hope that if I can get access to her birth certificate and/or adoption paperwork that I can know her birth surname and maybe find family one day. Growing up and even until now I was afraid or skeptical that I would be shamed or my grandparents, uncles, or aunts would be ashamed that my mother was adopted away from the islands. I have learned that the Okinawan people are so different from the Japanese people and it even gives me hope that I will be able to connect. 🙏
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My grandmother is born and raised in Okinawa and she had said her Okinawa name was changed to a Japanese one. It is absolutely horrific what she had lived through. Despite all of this she's still the sweetest soul.
My last name is written in kanji as "金城". This is a common surname in Okinawa. In Okinawan language, it is pronounced "kanagusuku", but in Japanese it is pronounced "kinjo''. But I don't have any particular "horrific" feelings about it. I'm actually proud that there are two different names for it.
My grand parents were from Okinawa, and they HATED being called Japanese. The state of the Ryukyuan Culture saddens me greatly, especially how ignorant and how people don't know about what transpired. I am proud of my culture, and sad that it is very difficult to learn about.
I am Okinwan myself born and living in Okinawa. I'm proud to be Japanese, and at the same time I don't feel weird being Okinawan. Honestly, I don't understand the mentality of "foreigners" who are obsessed with Okinawa even though they ran away from Okinawa and went to a foreign country. I sometimes have the opportunity to talk with Brazilians from Okinawa, but I feel a gap between my awareness and theirs.
According to Cairo Declaration of 1943-11-27: “ Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed (including Okinawa Islands)”. Cairo Declaration is cited in Clause 8 of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945-07-26, it further states "Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku, and such minor islands as we determine.", which is referred to by the Japanese Instrument of Surrender legally signed on 1945-09-02. As such, it constitutes the bedrock of post WWII international rule-based order. Therefore, Japan should stop the occupation of Okinawa Islands. The people of Okinawa Islands should have the right to exercise self-determinization and start the process of de-japanization.
I'm Okinawan American. My grandparents lost many friends and family during the invasion of Okinawa from the Japanese using them as human shields or shooting them if they tried to surrender. They still harbor great resentment against Japan for those reasons.
Probably fake account. You are uninformed and you are lying. Japanese HQs bemoaned how close civilian populations were to servicemen and to the battlefield.
@@jeromebesson - Imperial Japan sent them to die in a genocide amnner in WWII (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa#:~:text=The%20battle%20was%20the%20bloodiest,coerced%20suicide%20or%20went%20missing.), -Japanese government brought rapers and robbers from US military bases (th-cam.com/video/n6PbatUsU40/w-d-xo.htmlsi=IxAzrYVgzvJVTQuc), -when Ryukyu people protest, the Japanese government again oppress the local people (th-cam.com/video/jmlnoWdUcQ0/w-d-xo.html). The list can go on and you guys can keep lying to yourself.
Sorry for the late post. I am a typical Japan person. There is a lie in the comments here that cannot be overlooked. Yamato, Ainu, and Okinawans are ancient Jomon people with the same Jomon genes (haplogroup D). (By the way, Chinese and Koreans do not have the Haplogroup D gene.) Since ancient times, genetically and linguistically, the Uchinanchu (Okinawan people) are the same Japan people as the Yamatonchu (Yamato people). Of course, I am well aware that the people of Okinawa have a unique culture that is different from Yamato. I love beautiful Okinawa, which retains such a culture. The people of the world must not be deceived by China's efforts to divide Japan and Okinawa. Don't forget that China are targeting Okinawa. At least the people of Okinawa don't want to be Chinese.
😂The Jomon gene only contribute to ~10% of Japanese ancestry, you are mostly offspring of the Hokkien and Korean migrants. And Ryukyu are of course not Chinese, but they dun want to be Japanese either lol.... Throughout the history of Ryukyu kingdom there wasn't a single war or conflict with Chinese dynasties, But look at what Japanese brought them: - Imperial Japan sent them to die in a genocide amnner in WWII (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa#:~:text=The%20battle%20was%20the%20bloodiest,coerced%20suicide%20or%20went%20missing.), -Japanese government brought rapers and robbers from US military bases (th-cam.com/video/n6PbatUsU40/w-d-xo.htmlsi=IxAzrYVgzvJVTQuc), -when Ryukyu people protest, the Japanese government again oppress the local people (th-cam.com/video/jmlnoWdUcQ0/w-d-xo.html). The list can go on and you guys can keep lying to yourself.😓
Under Japan, there will be no international recognition for Okinawan. Okinawa becoming independent state and not aid Japan would be satisfactory for S Korean government. Japan destroyed Okinawan culture and language and suffered under Japan. Now S Korean government can aid Okinawan with weapons and training if Okinawan wants independent because Japanese government will not just give freedom by votes.
Its too late. Majority of okinawans have been assimilated, and doesnt support independence. The only possibility would be if Chinese people immigrate there like Russia and Eastern Ukraine
@@nahi27 Yes, many Ryukyu people have been assimilated by the Japanese invaders. That's why we need to be free! Ryukyu need to be liberated! Let the Ryukyu people regain their country and their lives! There are no Chinese emigrants from Russia and eastern Ukraine. You Japanese are spreading rumors. Our Ryukyu friends are Chinese, you are enemies
You clearly show no knowledge about Okinawa or never visited it, just another typical dumb Korean brainwashed by anti-japan cult. The language was the only thing to change. The traditional customs still the same as before and easily distinguishable from mainland Japan, the government of Japan places great value on local culture and traditions, no festival is similar to everywhere else in Japan and Japanese prefectures are too fond of honoring their cultural expressionism. Japan destroyed okinawan culture? What a joke, 90% of the buildings on the island were destroyed by the U.S. military, along with countless historical documents, artifacts, and cultural treasures, and the tropical landscape was turned into a vast field of mud, lead, decay and maggots
Okinawa's fate is just like Tibet, both being annexed and occupied against their will. Except that Tibetan language and culture is still being preserved, but Okinawa indigeneous language is fading away. Also, the local economy in Tibet has flourished over the past decade but Okinawa remains the poorest prefecture in Japan.
Tibet belongs to China under international law, and Tibetan people are treated like Chinese citizens. Tibetan culture is flourishing and people are happy under China’s rule. The kingdom of Ryukyu can be disputed as an independent nation under international law. Japan didn’t claim Okinawa as its territory after its defeat in WWII, Okinawa is still an American “protectorate”, with only administrative rights handed over to Japan in the 1970s and American troops permanently stationed. Okinawans are treated like second class citizens and their culture being wiped out. If Okinawans want to declare independence, they have a case under international law. That’s why Japan is set on assimilating them, so they don’t. There is the difference.
@@JS-ih7luRyuku had been japanese for atleast 500 years. But Tibet had just been Recently occupied by The Chinese Communist Party. FREE TIBET AND TAIWAN.
@@Shadowcat561 Read up on Tibetan history before you comment. Tibet has been a part of China since before the USA became a country. China is a diverse nation. Tibetans are only one of China’s 56 ethnic groups, where each ethnic group is as different as the next.
Born and raised in the Ryukyū’s. We still hate on the Naichā, the mainlanders, but they’re also a source of money. But now after Covid had stopped their aggressive behavior, Chinese, Koreans, and Naichā’s would visit more often or stay and find jobs to stay. There’s been “rumors” they are mostly spying on us Ryukyū Islanders but they all disappear before hitting the news thanks to the Yakuza by the name Kokuryūkai, first and biggest group in Okinawa island. Thanks to Kokuryūkai, the island is somewhat safer now than ever but because of their lable being yakuza, the mafia, most people think they’re the ones causing problems but they are the shadows of protecting the Ryukyū Islands from invaders. Sad that this is an ongoing thing since Japan took over the Ryukyū Islands. I am only providing information about the Ryukyū situation for those that are not aware of what’s going on outside of the islands. I am nearly only a messenger for my people and to let my people know how things are going on the Islands of Ryukyū. We will do our best to save these islands for the future of our people and the next generation to come to realize one day that Ryukyū is not Japan nor China. We are who we are and we’ll do our utmost and to protect our citizens.
Okinawan are as Japanese as Taiwanese are as Japanese. The US and Japan joins colonial occupations of Okinawa settles on tops all the most fertile zones of Okinawa, yet, only contribute 5% income for Okinawa economy. 25% of Okinawa don't have stables educations, poverty is on the rises and living standards are dependent on jobs provides by Japan and US on the zones the colonial forces occupies, like Hawaii. Meanwhile both occupational forces had commit many crimes including massive numbers of rapes toward women's and underaged girls, this goes for both Japanese military as of the USA military where both treats Okinawa as their colonies. Not to mentions the destructions of ocean and forest, and threaten to wipes out exclusive endangered animals species everytime a news mining operations and building a news military bases are constructed. The commercials companies of both Japan and USA had allows chemical leads on Okinawa ocean while also ruin the agricultural and fishing industry of the occupied nations. If people go to Okinawan, outside of zones occupied by the colonial military, and ask the local, they will see that the local are more pro-China, and this went back to when the people was an independent sea fairing nations, because they got what Carthage gots when Rome came ashore.
Were ottoman empire , this is proof they are manipulating history , they took whome these people native home is and hirohito is on video and I know he has said something atleast over there they work is modern government but for ottoman empire to last the end of 1800 and early 1900 it has to be false but I believe something about it I have a feeling leading towards it but I don't know what it is for real FR
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I lost both maternal grandparents during the war II! I was born and raised in the US. I recently returned my mother's ashes to Okinawa. She never said Hate, but she stated the Japanese soldiers came into the caves where they were hiding, and shot up the inhabitants! That's where my grandparents were, with their family! Painful history!
I'm also Okinawan, my grandparents were both orphans because of the battle fought there during World War II. My great grandfather owned a barber shop, until he bought land on the coast and created a rock quarry, he was killed in the bombings. My grandfather inherited everything, the family business, because everyone died, including his older brother who died overseas serving as a Japanese soldier. They did hide in the caves. My mother was born and raised in Okinawa, and my father was a US Marine. He lived in Okinawa for years, learned the language, loved it there. Okinawa used to be a really happening place back in the 80s. I was born in the states, but I lived in Okinawa for a few years when I was a kid. I speak a mixture of Japanese and Okinawan phrases, confuse the hell out of some Japanese people. Most people in Japan love Americans, and are very curious about our culture. Not so much with other foreigners though. It's rare to hear about other Okinawan-Americans, we are unique people. We've been oppressed and almost driven to extinction for like the past several thousand years, but here we are still hanging on by a thread. We have the longest lifespan of any race in the world, and We are also known for our incredible strength for our size, we are pure bred survivors. You should be proud of your heritage.
@@RaidZeroTV I am extremely proud of my Okinawa heritage, and Thank YOU for sharing your story! Gambatte!
@@RaidZeroTV you okinawan-american should unite as a community in order to preserve your culture and language.
Ainu ancestry ? 😢
My mother was forced to nurse wounded Japanese soldiers in the southern caves. When the Americans approached the cave the Japanese would not let the civilians surrender. She was wounded by a grenade and her friends were killed.
Great video! Thank you!
I am a proud Okinawan lives in Alabama. We MUST strive to save our Uchinaaguchi! After all, we are Uchinanchu!!!
Ryukyu people must march around the world to protest Japanese aggression! Why didn't you have a parade?
I'm from Okinawa, but mostly grew up in the US. My mom was very stern about us being Okinawan and not Japanese. Tbh, I would even go as far as to say she was a bit racist towards Japanese, but my great-grandmother, from what I've heard, definitely had a hatred for Japan.
I can't say I blame your family for harboring dislike towards Japanese people, they did some pretty horrific things during the Imperial era
Racist? You asians belong in the same race.
Understandable, they were colonized and suffered atrocities under Japanese occupation. Now the Japanese government is forcing the to host an American base that’s contaminating their water supply and crimes run rampant.
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Japan killed 25% of the Okinawan population during WWII. It’s a testament to your family’s compassion (or your ignorance) that that they didn’t pass down their hatred to you.
I recently learned from a DNA test that I'm 30% "Okinawan prefect" which was a shock in some way because my family has only ever called themselves Japanese. Down a rabbit hole learning about our origins and I'm finding it amazing how the Okinawan/Ryukuan culture has much more of a soul resonance with myself when before I had very little identification of the "Japanese culture". Seems that even though the history was not passed down, the culture was.
Thanks for watching 🙏
I feel exactly the same way. I am 50% Okinawan, and 50% German-American. My spirit is much more attached to Okinawa and the lost ryukyu past than the Japanese one. Although my family does have a samurai history, one where a Japanese samurai fell in love with an Okinawan peasant farmer girl, and their baby was samurai but only half samurai, so it was raised within the walls of the compound but never allowed inside the walls of the castle. Supposedly I am a descendant of that half Okinawan, half Japanese samurai child who was treated like a half breed. Now I am half Okinawan, half American, my father being a US marine, and my mother Okinawan. History repeating itself. Kinda strange reminds me of that cloud atlas movie lol. I really do think there is some time of ancestral dna memories that we have, or maybe it's entirely a spiritual or metaphysical connection. Anyways what do I know. You should be proud of your Okinawan heritage, we are very rare, as we have almost been driven to extinction multiple times recently and our culture erased by the Japanese. We need to stick together and help each other to thrive abundantly, and for our next generations too.
I am Chinese and thank you very much for your video, even if you don’t talk about the historical friendship between the Ming Dynasty and the Ryukyu Kingdom. Just talking about what the Ryukyu people have been through in the last 100 years, they very much deserved independence after World War II.
Hi I'm Ryukyu Okiman.
I really like to teache my som to about Ryukyu Okimawa history ! this iq good to learn. thank you so much.
I hope Ryukyu kingdam independent in fututor!
Thank you for your fantastic comment and for watching!
You're Chinese, aren't you? Don't pretend to be Okinawan. At least the people of Okinawa don't want to be Chinese.
First: Organizing a Ryukyu Independent Organization.
Second: Save Ryukyu culture action. Save Ryukyu characters, languages, costumes, songs and dances, etc.
Third: Supervisors should meet regularly to discuss how to achieve Ryukyu independence.
I was America gave an independent nation to Japan and it did same thing to Hawaii.
Free Tibet and Taiwan first.
Have you included the information that Okinawa is to return to its independence after WWII according to the peace treaty.
Despite that the US occupies Okinawa and later passed on the "right of governance but not the right of sovereignty" of Okinawa to Japan?
Up till today, the official sovereignty is still temporarily held by the United Nation according to this treaty and because of the complicated status of US and Japan occupation
I didn't know that, thanks for watching and adding to this vide :)
I spent my 19th birthday along Orawan bay in northern Okinawa. Lived there for a year. Ate the jungle dirt, camped in the jungle, got stung by a jellyfish. Loved the Okinawan people.
This is such a great video. Glad I found it on the net.
Thanks glad you liked it, it's hard to find :)
Wow, I thought the video was great... I am recently learning a lot of history and through my work have been in Okinawa for the past week. It's also amazing reading through some of the comments from other half or part Okinawan people. My mother was 100% Okinawan, the last of many siblings, maybe 10 or 11 children...but she was adopted by an American military dad and Okinawan mom. She never learned any of the history or culture and never had the opportunity to come here or found family. I am given hope that if I can get access to her birth certificate and/or adoption paperwork that I can know her birth surname and maybe find family one day. Growing up and even until now I was afraid or skeptical that I would be shamed or my grandparents, uncles, or aunts would be ashamed that my mother was adopted away from the islands. I have learned that the Okinawan people are so different from the Japanese people and it even gives me hope that I will be able to connect. 🙏
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My grandmother is born and raised in Okinawa and she had said her Okinawa name was changed to a Japanese one. It is absolutely horrific what she had lived through. Despite all of this she's still the sweetest soul.
My last name is written in kanji as "金城". This is a common surname in Okinawa.
In Okinawan language, it is pronounced "kanagusuku", but in Japanese it is pronounced "kinjo''.
But I don't have any particular "horrific" feelings about it.
I'm actually proud that there are two different names for it.
I lost both my Maternal Grandparents due to the War, along with several Aunts and uncles! This was painful!
Another great video.
My grand parents were from Okinawa, and they HATED being called Japanese. The state of the Ryukyuan Culture saddens me greatly, especially how ignorant and how people don't know about what transpired. I am proud of my culture, and sad that it is very difficult to learn about.
I am Okinwan myself born and living in Okinawa.
I'm proud to be Japanese, and at the same time I don't feel weird being Okinawan.
Honestly, I don't understand the mentality of "foreigners" who are obsessed with Okinawa even though they ran away from Okinawa and went to a foreign country.
I sometimes have the opportunity to talk with Brazilians from Okinawa, but I feel a gap between my awareness and theirs.
There are no Okinawans, only real Ryukyuan people, the Ryukyu Islands belong to the Ryukyuan people, damn the Japanese invaders!
this is soooooo cool!
Thanks for the summary!👍
Super thanks for coming over and watching!
@@GeoPerspective My pleasure!
As long as Ryukyu people keep their culture identity, you will always have hope. Muslim ruled Spain for 700 years. 😎
According to Cairo Declaration of 1943-11-27: “ Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed (including Okinawa Islands)”. Cairo Declaration is cited in Clause 8 of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945-07-26, it further states "Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku, and such minor islands as we determine.", which is referred to by the Japanese Instrument of Surrender legally signed on 1945-09-02. As such, it constitutes the bedrock of post WWII international rule-based order. Therefore, Japan should stop the occupation of Okinawa Islands. The people of Okinawa Islands should have the right to exercise self-determinization and start the process of de-japanization.
H-E-L-L N-O
You are Chinese, arn't you? OK. Okinawans may choose to become independent or stay in Japan. At least the people of Okinawa don't want to be Chinese.
I'm Okinawan American. My grandparents lost many friends and family during the invasion of Okinawa from the Japanese using them as human shields or shooting them if they tried to surrender. They still harbor great resentment against Japan for those reasons.
Probably fake account. You are uninformed and you are lying. Japanese HQs bemoaned how close civilian populations were to servicemen and to the battlefield.
@@jeromebesson - Imperial Japan sent them to die in a genocide amnner in WWII (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa#:~:text=The%20battle%20was%20the%20bloodiest,coerced%20suicide%20or%20went%20missing.),
-Japanese government brought rapers and robbers from US military bases (th-cam.com/video/n6PbatUsU40/w-d-xo.htmlsi=IxAzrYVgzvJVTQuc),
-when Ryukyu people protest, the Japanese government again oppress the local people (th-cam.com/video/jmlnoWdUcQ0/w-d-xo.html).
The list can go on and you guys can keep lying to yourself.
Came here to learn about the Ryuku people after hearing Ikue Asazaki - obokuri eeumi
FREE LIUCHU we are with YOU !❤❤❤
Sorry for the late post. I am a typical Japan person. There is a lie in the comments here that cannot be overlooked. Yamato, Ainu, and Okinawans are ancient Jomon people with the same Jomon genes (haplogroup D). (By the way, Chinese and Koreans do not have the Haplogroup D gene.) Since ancient times, genetically and linguistically, the Uchinanchu (Okinawan people) are the same Japan people as the Yamatonchu (Yamato people).
Of course, I am well aware that the people of Okinawa have a unique culture that is different from Yamato. I love beautiful Okinawa, which retains such a culture. The people of the world must not be deceived by China's efforts to divide Japan and Okinawa. Don't forget that China are targeting Okinawa. At least the people of Okinawa don't want to be Chinese.
I have your back on this one. 頑張ってください。
😂The Jomon gene only contribute to ~10% of Japanese ancestry, you are mostly offspring of the Hokkien and Korean migrants.
And Ryukyu are of course not Chinese, but they dun want to be Japanese either lol....
Throughout the history of Ryukyu kingdom there wasn't a single war or conflict with Chinese dynasties,
But look at what Japanese brought them:
- Imperial Japan sent them to die in a genocide amnner in WWII (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa#:~:text=The%20battle%20was%20the%20bloodiest,coerced%20suicide%20or%20went%20missing.),
-Japanese government brought rapers and robbers from US military bases (th-cam.com/video/n6PbatUsU40/w-d-xo.htmlsi=IxAzrYVgzvJVTQuc),
-when Ryukyu people protest, the Japanese government again oppress the local people (th-cam.com/video/jmlnoWdUcQ0/w-d-xo.html).
The list can go on and you guys can keep lying to yourself.😓
Nice
free okinawa！ free ryukyu！
China:Chance ！
@@j6907 A chance for the Ryukyu people to get rid of your Japanese invaders!
八重山諸島は琉球に入りますか？
@@user-tl1bw4wp1cSTFU already 🤦🏽🤦🏽
The same is true for Okinawa. Okinawa's bad deeds are not exposed, but they are hidden
I don't understand. Care to elaborate?
Under Japan, there will be no international recognition for Okinawan. Okinawa becoming independent state and not aid Japan would be satisfactory for S Korean government. Japan destroyed Okinawan culture and language and suffered under Japan. Now S Korean government can aid Okinawan with weapons and training if Okinawan wants independent because Japanese government will not just give freedom by votes.
:O
Its too late. Majority of okinawans have been assimilated, and doesnt support independence. The only possibility would be if Chinese people immigrate there like Russia and Eastern Ukraine
No South Korea should stay out of Japanese affair.
@@nahi27 Yes, many Ryukyu people have been assimilated by the Japanese invaders. That's why we need to be free! Ryukyu need to be liberated! Let the Ryukyu people regain their country and their lives! There are no Chinese emigrants from Russia and eastern Ukraine. You Japanese are spreading rumors. Our Ryukyu friends are Chinese, you are enemies
You clearly show no knowledge about Okinawa or never visited it, just another typical dumb Korean brainwashed by anti-japan cult. The language was the only thing to change. The traditional customs still the same as before and easily distinguishable from mainland Japan, the government of Japan places great value on local culture and traditions, no festival is similar to everywhere else in Japan and Japanese prefectures are too fond of honoring their cultural expressionism. Japan destroyed okinawan culture? What a joke, 90% of the buildings on the island were destroyed by the U.S. military, along with countless historical documents, artifacts, and cultural treasures, and the tropical landscape was turned into a vast field of mud, lead, decay and maggots
Now Ryukyu is still a colony under Japan and the US😢
Okinawa's fate is just like Tibet, both being annexed and occupied against their will. Except that Tibetan language and culture is still being preserved, but Okinawa indigeneous language is fading away. Also, the local economy in Tibet has flourished over the past decade but Okinawa remains the poorest prefecture in Japan.
Tibet belongs to China under international law, and Tibetan people are treated like Chinese citizens. Tibetan culture is flourishing and people are happy under China’s rule. The kingdom of Ryukyu can be disputed as an independent nation under international law. Japan didn’t claim Okinawa as its territory after its defeat in WWII, Okinawa is still an American “protectorate”, with only administrative rights handed over to Japan in the 1970s and American troops permanently stationed. Okinawans are treated like second class citizens and their culture being wiped out. If Okinawans want to declare independence, they have a case under international law. That’s why Japan is set on assimilating them, so they don’t. There is the difference.
@@JS-ih7luRyuku had been japanese for atleast 500 years. But Tibet had just been Recently occupied by The Chinese Communist Party. FREE TIBET AND TAIWAN.
I would say it’s more like Hawaii 😅
@@JS-ih7luNo its not tibet is an independent country they are tottaly different from mainland china
@@Shadowcat561 Read up on Tibetan history before you comment. Tibet has been a part of China since before the USA became a country. China is a diverse nation. Tibetans are only one of China’s 56 ethnic groups, where each ethnic group is as different as the next.
First rename Okinawa to Ryukyu. Second declare independence.
Luchuans UNITED Independent March!
Japan was ruled by the shogun not emperor
Before Meiji Restoration (the downfall of shogunate system)
Ryuku didn't start in 15th century.
Born and raised in the Ryukyū’s. We still hate on the Naichā, the mainlanders, but they’re also a source of money. But now after Covid had stopped their aggressive behavior, Chinese, Koreans, and Naichā’s would visit more often or stay and find jobs to stay. There’s been “rumors” they are mostly spying on us Ryukyū Islanders but they all disappear before hitting the news thanks to the Yakuza by the name Kokuryūkai, first and biggest group in Okinawa island. Thanks to Kokuryūkai, the island is somewhat safer now than ever but because of their lable being yakuza, the mafia, most people think they’re the ones causing problems but they are the shadows of protecting the Ryukyū Islands from invaders. Sad that this is an ongoing thing since Japan took over the Ryukyū Islands. I am only providing information about the Ryukyū situation for those that are not aware of what’s going on outside of the islands. I am nearly only a messenger for my people and to let my people know how things are going on the Islands of Ryukyū. We will do our best to save these islands for the future of our people and the next generation to come to realize one day that Ryukyū is not Japan nor China. We are who we are and we’ll do our utmost and to protect our citizens.
China was invaded by Japan in WW2! Due to this unfortunate experience China should help the Okinawans regain their sovereignty!
薩摩が挨拶してから沖縄県「琉球」は日本の一部になったものよ
Okinawan are as Japanese as Taiwanese are as Japanese.
The US and Japan joins colonial occupations of Okinawa settles on tops all the most fertile zones of Okinawa, yet, only contribute 5% income for Okinawa economy.
25% of Okinawa don't have stables educations, poverty is on the rises and living standards are dependent on jobs provides by Japan and US on the zones the colonial forces occupies, like Hawaii.
Meanwhile both occupational forces had commit many crimes including massive numbers of rapes toward women's and underaged girls, this goes for both Japanese military as of the USA military where both treats Okinawa as their colonies.
Not to mentions the destructions of ocean and forest, and threaten to wipes out exclusive endangered animals species everytime a news mining operations and building a news military bases are constructed.
The commercials companies of both Japan and USA had allows chemical leads on Okinawa ocean while also ruin the agricultural and fishing industry of the occupied nations.
If people go to Okinawan, outside of zones occupied by the colonial military, and ask the local, they will see that the local are more pro-China, and this went back to when the people was an independent sea fairing nations, because they got what Carthage gots when Rome came ashore.
There are no Okinawans, only real Ryukyuan people, the Ryukyu Islands belong to the Ryukyuan people, damn the Japanese invaders!
Were ottoman empire , this is proof they are manipulating history , they took whome these people native home is and hirohito is on video and I know he has said something atleast over there they work is modern government but for ottoman empire to last the end of 1800 and early 1900 it has to be false but I believe something about it I have a feeling leading towards it but I don't know what it is for real FR
This video is wrong in so many ways
And now all of Japan and Okinawa are under European occupation
USA
@@user-tl1bw4wp1c I see the USA as far western Europe but Europe none the less
@David Canatella NO. The USA and Europe are DIFFERENT.
@@davidcanatella4279 big dumb.
are you guys separatism activists?
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