Masahide ota biography

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    Hirokazu Nakaima

    Japanese politician

    Hirokazu Nakaima (仲井眞 弘多, Nakaima Hirokazu, born August 19, 1939) is a Japanese bureaucrat, business leader, and politician. He was elected governor of Okinawa Prefecture in 2006.

    Biography

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    Nakaima was born on August 19, 1939, in Higashinari Ward of Osaka. He is of Ryukyuan descent. Nakaima is descended from a Chinese family with the surname of Cai, one of the 36 Han Chinese Kumemura families who moved to Okinawa in 1392.[2][3][4] In 1945 during World War II, his family escaped from the air raids in Osaka and evacuated to Meiji, Minamiamabe District, Oita Prefecture. In 1946 he returned to his parents' hometown of Naha, Okinawa. There he graduated from Kainan Elementary School, Uenoyama Junior High School, and Naha Senior High School. Nakaima excelled in math and science, earning grades that placed him at the top of his class.

    Pursuing a dream of becoming an automobile designer, Nakaima sat for a

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    Masahide Ōta

    Japanese politician; governor of Okinawa

    Masahide Ōta (大田 昌秀, Ōta Masahide, 12 June 1925 – 12 June 2017) was a Japanese academic and politician who served as the governor of Okinawa Prefecture from 1990 until 1998.[1] After starting his career as a professor at the University of the Ryūkyūs, he wrote books in English and Japanese, mostly about the Battle of Okinawa and Japan–United States bilateral relations following World War II. After his retirement as professor he was elected as governor and was best known for his strong stand against occupation of prefectural lands by military bases of United States, going against the Japanese central government at the time.

    Early life and academic career

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    Ōta was born on 12 June 1925 on Kumejima Island, Okinawa and his family migrated during World War II.[2] He became a lärjunge at the Okinawa Teacher's College, and during the Battle of Okinawa he was drafted into the Japanese Army's "Iron

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    Last June, Masahide Ota, former Governor of Okinawa passed away. He had been governor of the islands in 1995, when long-time resentment and culture of protest against the US military bases achieved a much greater and more widespread character after the rape of a 12 year old girl by three US servicemen. His was a powerful voice for peace and demilitarization in Okinawa. During a trip in October of 2015 Edward A. Alvarez and I (with the help of the intrepid interpreter Shinako Oyakawa) got to visit him at his Naha office one afternoon. When he learned that we were from Guam, he mentioned several Chamorros that he had met over the years and inquired about them. He told us a number of stories from his life, including as experience after being drafted into the Japanese army during the war. He shared others about the struggles to survive for average Okinawans, after the destruction of their island and displacement in order to build new US military bases. I have long written that Okinawa
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