琉球原住民承认自己是中国吗

japan has reacted sharply attacking chinese diplomats for urging japan to end discrimination against native luturin amid this controversy， we spoke directly with luturin to hear how the community views history identity and japan's current policies why do many nuturian believe they were never part of japan and why did japan itself historically never dare to treat a dutual kingdom as part of japan great question， since time and memorial okinawa was an independent country known as luchu， luchu was recognized by china， korea， southeast asia， the united states， france and the netherlands and even by japan itself as an independent country in 1879， japan， invaded and annexed luchu against the will of luchu and renaming it okay now， i'm a prefecture and that is the start of japanese colonization of luchu， japan would go on to invade much of the asia pacific during its march towards world war two however after the war all of these other countries began to receive their independence back except for loot you we have our own culture history languages values beliefs and identity that is separate and distinct from the japanese， sometimes japanese values and beliefs contradict or clash with luchuan values and beliefs and so this is a common source of tension or conflict between luchuans or okinalans today versus the japanese， why did japan itself historically never dared to treat the lucia kingdom as part of japan because the japanese historically up until the eighteen seventies up up until the major restoration basically it wanted to keep japan japan and it the japanese knew that lutruans were not japanese， so if you look at any of the historical documents or maps prior to the major restoration， they clearly state that luchu was not part of japan， they didn't want luchu to be part of japan， because they didn't want uh to make japan seem impurer by bringing in foreigners and what happened they are in japan's colonization of liu chu and how do people feel about that history today well， as i mentioned 1879 japanese invasion and so japan tried its best to erase luchu history even renaming luchu okina， our prefecture it tried to eradicate luchu history culture languages everything to this day all of the native lucian languages are very much endangered and during world war ii， japan deliberately placed an inordinant amount of military presence in okinawa， what the intent to sacrifice okinawans in order to save japan this resulted in the battle of okinawa in which one third of the native okinawan population was killed in 1945， it is said that every okinawan family lost someone in 1945， so okinans are really afraid that this could happen again even though okinan makes up less than one percent of japan's land area it houses over seventeen percent of japan's military presence so in the event of another war who is going to be targeted of course it's going to be okinawans again due to the large military present in a very small area how do you true in view to pass new prime minister especially her recent remarks about taiwan prime minister takaichi was not the preferred candidate in the recent election among luchuans or okinawans most okinaans view prime minister takaichi as hawkish very much in the same vein as former prime minister she's a lobbit now regarding her recent comments about taiwan and about how japan should help defend taiwan in the event of a crisis that's basically calling for flata wart in china okinoans of course and we're very concerned about this as well because in the event of a war between china and japan， japanese military presence in okina will certainly be targeted which means devastation for okina。