Okinawa-elected lawmaker's unpublished writing on independence found

An Okinawa politician who in the 1990s became the first Cabinet minister as a lawmaker elected from the southern island had drafted a document theorizing how to achieve independence from Japan, according to the manuscript seen by Kyodo News.The manuscript was never published and the author, Kosuke Uehara, died in 2017 at age 84, but the thought exercise by a one-time senior government official could aid discussions about Okinawa and its place in Japan at a time when the prefecture remains burdened with U.S. bases 50 years after its reversion.The conclusion reached by Uehara in his writing t…READ FULL ARTICLE