Whether regarding the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, American military bases stationed in Okinawa and Japan, or the evictions of homeless in Tokyo in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, these are issues to which we are not strangers in Taiwan...
Though little discussed outside of Japan, Okinawa would currently be in a state of political crisis after the mass deployment of upwards of five hundred and it is rumored as much as one thousand riot police from the more central Japanese islands to the district of Takae in Okinawa, which has only a population of 160...
With recent attention paid to Chinese claims of sovereignty over Okinawa and recent naval provokations by China, we might examine the backdrop of these claims...