Ishii Nozomi’s Historic Research Shatters China’s Okinawa Narrative — A Turning Point in Japan’s Information War

In 2022, Kyoto University–trained historian Ishii Nozomi released a groundbreaking academic work debunking China’s international propaganda campaign claiming that Okinawa is not historically part of Japan. His research is based on primary Chinese, Korean, and Ryukyuan archival texts, linguistic analysis, and historiographical evidence, making it one of the most significant contributions to East Asian historical studies in the twenty-first century.

The essay argues that Okinawans—misled for decades by biased media and political activists—must read this work before shaping regional or national policy through elections. As China intensifies efforts to influence Okinawan politics and international bodies such as the United Nations, Japan must respond decisively by sharing accurate scholarship, recognizing ideological infiltration, and reinforcing national security laws such as counter-espionage legislation.

Ishii Nozomi, a distinguished scholar educated at Kyoto University in Chinese literature and historical studies, has finally published the monumental work of his life.
(2022-09-11)

Before any citizen of Okinawa casts a vote today, they must immediately read the following document:
geneva_ishii.pdf — Public Lecture in Geneva (Academia.edu link omitted).

Last night, a close friend of mine passed away, and I awoke with severe lack of sleep.
Yet, as if by divine revelation, this extraordinary academic document—arguably one of the most important scholarly works of the twenty-first century—arrived in my inbox like a message from heaven.

For decades, Okinawa voters who relied solely on Okinawa Times, Ryukyu Shimpo, and NHK have been misled into ideological servitude—becoming not merely uninformed citizens, but intellectual hostages trapped in a narrative of self-hatred.
Roughly thirty percent of the electorate, manipulated by this distorted worldview, repeatedly elected Onaga Takeshi and later Denny Tamaki.
It is no exaggeration to state that such a population is unfit for the twenty-first century unless they confront true history.

I have mentioned this book several times before.
And now, Ishii Nozomi has finally delivered what Japan needed most: a scholarly weapon strong enough to dismantle the historical sabotage orchestrated by China and its agents.

Those who have promoted the claim that “Ryukyu is not Japan” include the late Governor Onaga and his ideological aide, lawyer Sayo Saruta—an individual whose ignorance of history is matched only by the recklessness of her political activism.
It was under her guidance that Onaga traveled to the United Nations and proclaimed the absurd and historically false claim that Okinawans are an independent minority ethnic group.

As journalist Masayuki Takayama has repeatedly explained, DNA research conducted by scholars at the University of Tokyo demonstrates clearly that Okinawans share Japanese genetic lineage—not Chinese nor Korean lineage.

Trained at Kyoto University and possessing mastery of classical East Asian textual methodology, Ishii Nozomi now stands as Japan’s answer to global historical manipulation.
I have repeatedly urged the Japanese government to translate his work into major world languages and distribute it across the international community.
Had they done so earlier, China’s historical falsehoods—and the propaganda spread by its domestic collaborators—could have been dismantled instantly.

And now, Ishii has done it himself.
With this monumental work, he has thoroughly dismantled the falsifications of a nation defined by “bottomless malice” and “beautifully packaged lies”—a totalitarian state where deception is not merely a tactic but a political system.