Significance of Okinawa
Once it was often said that there was strong social discrimination in Japan. Some types of Japanese or residents in Japan had been regarded as second-class citizens.
For example, before the end of WWII, the Japanese main stream citizens consisted of the imperial family, imperial branch families, noble class families, ex-samurai class families, authorized Buddhist monks and shinto priests, and descendants of ordinary families, townsman/craftsman families of the samurai era.
But Japanese people who did not belong to the above stated mainstream classes were socially discriminated. In addition, Korean residents in Japan were also socially discriminated. Furthermore Okinawa people who lived in Okinawa Prefecture, the most southern islands area of Japan, were also sometimes unjustly regarded as second-class citizens of Japan as with the Ainu people who lived in the most northern major island of Japan.
This sort of discrimination was really strong till introduction of the new constitution after the end of WWII. Today such social discrimination is not so strong at all as before or it is almost conquered with expansion of awareness of human rights in the society. There is an influence of the realization of the first African American President in the US, too.
In this context memory of the Battle of Okinawa (1 April – 22 June 1945) in WWII still makes Okinawa people suffer with a sense that they were used as a kind of sacrifice to defend the mainland Japan against the US military forces. (In this Battle more than 90,000 Okinawa citizens were killed.)
But as the Senkaku Islands have been part of the Okinawa (Ryukyu) Kingdom for 1000 years or they have been within a range of sailing and fishing of Okinawa people since the Japanese race started to live in the Okinawa islands thousands of years ago, the central government of Japan is determined to protect the Senkakus from Chinese invasion.
If the Japanese Government should fail in this defense mission on the Senkaku Islands, Okinawa people might all the more hold a grudge against the mainstream Japanese, including the imperial family and politicians living in Tokyo.
(For truth of the Senkaku Islands, refer to http://eereporter.blogspot.jp/2010/10/yesterday-two-miracles-however-you.html)
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Joh 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
Joh 8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
Joh 8:6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
Joh 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.