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here's a question almost nobody in tokyo wants you to ask why does the small prefecture of okinawa, originally known as real kyo carry the bulk of us military bases in japan and here is an even bigger question why does japan always tiptoe around how it got these lands in the first place today we're getting straight to it japan's four deadly sins on the people of reocue the history, the identity, the wartime trauma and the militarization happening right now japan has long coveted the ryokill islands, but there was an independent kingdom of ryokill with its own kings legal codes and a diplomatic order deeply rooted in east asia for some 500 years until the end of the 19th century, the kingdom maintained tributary relations with china a stable peaceful and mutually recognized system in 1609, japanese warriors invaded and brought northern ryokill under its control then came eighteen seventy nine, the so called real q disposition let's be clear this was not a negotiation, but annexation by bloody force japanese troops marched into shuri castle removed the king and renamed the kingdom okinawa prefecture, no treaty, no international recognition, no consent of the people that's the original sin and japan still refuses to legally address it after annexation tokyo, didn't just occupy territory it reshaped identity by launching a decades long campaign of forced assimilation children punished for speaking ryokian languages dialect tags hung around students next textbooks invented a myth of shared japanese ryokian ancestry ryokians were treated as second class japanese yet were demanded to serve and die for tokyo's empire scholars today called this state sponsored identity engineering it attempted to erase a nation not by killing its people, but by killing its memory 1945, the battle of okinawa, the typhoon of steel around one quarter of the entire island chain's population was wiped out and while american bombardment was devastated stating that's not the full story japanese military records and survivor accounts describe atrocities committed by japanese troops themselves families order to commit group suicides with grenades civilians shot for speaking ryokian accused of being american spies shelters ceased by soldiers forcing families into open fire zones food confiscated leaving civilians to starve yet some politicians in tokyo not try to sanitize this chapter calling the mass suicides voluntary survivors have testified for decades we were ordered, but the japanese government still denies responsibility since the end of world war ii ryoki was quickly turned into a huge military base, the reason is simple is geological location against the backdrop of the code war, the intended enemy was obvious for the locals however, it means the imposition of the military burden, the rest of japan avoids over seventy percent of us exclusive use bases in japan on zero point six percent of its land one hundred decibel jet noise pollution over homes and schools toxic chemical contamination, land seizures and a decades long pattern of serious crimes against local girls and women involving foreign servicemen the list goes on more alarmingly tokyo is itself picking a pace in militarizing the entire ryokio arc from miracle to ishigaki to yonaguni placing missile batteries surveillance raiders and combat units with the closest point just one hundred kilometers from china's taiwan for many ryokians this is not defense it is a return to the old pattern their homeland turned into japan's front line outpost these are the four dead listens japan has committed to the people reocue a kingdom was illegally annexed an identity was re engineered a people used as human fodder during wartime and their home again turned into a military dumping ground against their will the world needs to hear the story whether or not japan finds it convenient。

