The retrospective history of
Okinawa (Ryukyu Islands)

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Governor Ota Masahide of Okinawa
By Chalmers Johnson, 9 November 1995. The governor of Okinawa, Ota Masahide, 70, is perhaps the only Japanese politician in living memory who has both paid attention to what the people who elected him wanted him to do and who did not betray them when faced with bureaucratic resistance.