The late Kosuke Uehara wrote his ideas in the 1990s, when many Japanese people were drawing their attention to continuing hardships faced by people in Okinawa.
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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.