• "Okinawan nationalism" (Japanese: 沖縄民族主義 or 沖縄ナショナリズム) claims the Ryukyuan people' own identity, also called "Okinawan people". Okinawan nationalism started...
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    political, which criticized Japanese nationalism (in counterposition to Okinawan subjectivity) and fellow Okinawans' delusions about the prospects of full...
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    Ryukyuan people (redirect from Okinawans)
    The Ryukyuan people (Okinawan: 琉球民族 (るーちゅーみんずく), romanized: Ruuchuu minzuku or どぅーちゅーみんずく, Duuchuu minzuku, Japanese: 琉球民族/りゅうきゅうみんぞく, romanized: Ryūkyū...
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    Afrikaner nationalism (Afrikaans: Afrikanernasionalisme) is a nationalistic political ideology created by Afrikaners residing in Southern Africa during...
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    Japanese creates new regional speech forms among young people, such as Okinawan Japanese. In terms of mutual intelligibility, a survey in 1967 found the...
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    Nakasone, Ronald Y. (2002). Okinawan Diaspora. University of Hawaii Press. p. 81. ISBN 0824844149. In many ways, Okinawan immigrants had successfully...
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    Goguryeo, Balhae and Tungusic peoples in Korea. Ainu and Ryukyuan people (Okinawans) in Japan were subject to forced assimilation. Thailand sought to assimilate...
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  • Eritrean nationalism is centered on the fact that the Eritreans share a common history, and as such constitute a nation unto themselves. Even though there...
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  • the Modern Japanese Nobility, p. 29 Matsumura, Wendy. (2007). Becoming Okinawan: Japanese Capitalism and Changing Representations of Okinawa, p. 38. Nussbaum...
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    and 1902. But due to its radical and extreme philosophy of Hawaiian nationalism, infighting was prominent. This, in addition to its refusal to work with...
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  • Interpreting "Okinawan" as a distinct nationality reinforced the legitimacy of governing Okinawa separately from the rest of Japan. Okinawans, defined as...
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  • Islands. There are different subgroups of the Ryukyuan ethnic group, the Okinawan, Amami, Miyako, Yaeyama and Yonaguni peoples. Their languages comprise...
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  • million living in Okinawa and 300,000 living in other areas of Japan. The Okinawan language, the most widely spoken Ryukyuan language, is related to Japanese...
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  • Ryukyuan (a branch of modern Okinawan) people had their own state historically (Ryukyu Kingdom). Although some Okinawan people have sought independence...
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    typographic symbols (non-kana, non-kanji symbols) Kaidā glyphs (Yonaguni) Okinawan writing system Siddhaṃ script (Indic alphabet used for Buddhist scriptures)...
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    educational support. Besides Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages (Amami, Kunigami, Okinawan, Miyako, Yaeyama, Yonaguni), part of the Japonic language family, are spoken...
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  • many students of Okinawan leave Japan for Brazil to study it. Consequently, there has been a resumption in the dissemination of Okinawan culture in Japan...
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    as in Okinawa. In one notable example of this, on 26 October 1987, an Okinawan supermarket owner burned the flag before the start of the National Sports...
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  • – Japanese drama film inspired by the true story of Hikaru Oshiro, an Okinawan altruist who founded the "Ajisai Ongaku Mura", a music village that is...
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    the event, which was attended by Emperor Akihito, was denounced by many Okinawans, who saw it as celebrating a betrayal. There were demonstrations in both...
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    about the Okinawan people." The film characterizes the Okinawans as "merry but backward" and "de-politicized", which ignored the real-life Okinawan political...
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  • Yoshida's replacement Tamlyn Tomita as Tamiko Watanabe (season 3–4), an Okinawan-Hawaiian painter who befriends Tagomi Eijiro Ozaki as Inokuchi (season...
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  • brought the war to Japan, the first area that was effected were the Okinawan Islands. Okinawan citizens forced into becoming soldiers were told that Americans...
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    ISSN 0003-1186. "THE IMPORTANCE OF COPTIC NAMES". DIOSCORUS BOLES ON COPTIC NATIONALISM. 2016-01-27. Retrieved 2023-06-01. Heuser, Gustav (1929). Die Personennamen...
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    percent of the 21,000 defenders of Iwo Jima were killed. Of the 117,000 Okinawan and Japanese troops defending Okinawa in April to June 1945, 94 percent...
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    advising US officials on how to shape Okinawan public opinion. The CIA advised US officials to manipulate Okinawan pacifist opinion by stating the military's...
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  • State. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-31450-2. — (March 1996). "The Okinawan rape incident and the end of the Cold War in East Asia". Quadrant. 40 (3):...
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  • a 2008 column in The New York Times: "'I am working on a piece about nationalism with a focus on epithet as a smear word,' writes David Binder, my longtime...
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    History of Japan (category Japanese nationalism)
    largest naval operation of the war and left 115,000 soldiers and 150,000 Okinawan civilians dead, suggesting that the planned invasion of mainland Japan...
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    Biography.com. Retrieved 2011-10-20. Deburg, William L. Van, Modern Black Nationalism: From Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan, NYU Press (1997), p. 269, ISBN 0-8147-8789-4...
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