When mainland people go to Okinawa, we can't get into that society, even if we try, and it's the same for people from Okinawa who go to the mainland, even more so in that era.

当大陆人来到冲绳，即使怎样努力尝试还是不能够融进当地的社会，而冲绳人反之亦然。甚至在这个时代更是如此。

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The trip to Okinawa was a big success, as the G-8 put some teeth into our commitment to have all the world’s children in primary school by 2015.

八国峰会下了一定决心要实现我们到2015年使全球儿童都接受小学教育的承诺，所以，冲绳之行可以说非常成功。

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Japan, which in the 19th century took on board western notions of the sovereign state, absorbed Ryukyu (now Okinawa) and went on forcibly to incorporate much of Asia into its short-lived empire.

19世纪，日本接受了西方的主权国家概念，占领了琉球国(现在的冲绳)，后来又凭借武力将亚洲许多地区并入其短命的帝国之中。

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One secret pact signed in 1969 by President Nixon and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato allowed the U.S. to reintroduce nuclear weapons into Okinawa in times of emergency, and with prior consultation with Japan.

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They helped doom Mr Hatoyama, when he stumbled into a fruitless row with America over the relocation of a marine base in the Japanese island of Okinawa.

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Kyodo News agency, citing unidentified government sources, said on Tuesday that defence officials were looking into basing fighter jets closer to the disputed island chain, utilising a runway on a small island south of Okinawa.

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