The Land Is Ours a landrights campaign for Britain Land Rights Issues in Japan.
Islands stretch from Kyushu, the southwestern most of the four main islands, to Taiwan.
The southern section of this island chain forms Okinawa County. Okinawa used to be the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was at times a vassal of either Japan or China, and at times fully independent, until 1879, when it was annexed by Japan. Okinawans, of whom there are 1.2 million, are sometimes classed as an ethnic minority, as they are culturally different from the mainland Japanese, although much less so than the Ainu. Okinawan can be regarded as either the broadest dialect of, or a language closely related to, Japanese. In the Second World War Okinawa was the site of the biggest battle in world history, with the Okinawans having the misfortune to be regarded as Japanese by the Allies but as colonial subjects by the Japanese, and this led to the deaths of one third of the population.