In the modern history of Okinawa, the image of Noboru Jahana being famous as a person who led the civil rights movement has been divided. Sometimes known simply as, "Gijin", a person who resists power, sometimes as a symbol of "the reversion movement" and sometimes as a person who urged for "assimilation" into the imperial system of Japan. Whenever Okinawan society faces problems, its political attitude is reflected, and different images of Jahana have been used.
There are very few historical records of the person himself, and the biography "Gijin Jahana Noboru Den " which Koei Oyadomari published in 1935 still remains the essential historical record. However, no one has looked into why Oyadomari chose to write "Jahana Den" in the first place.
Through this report, I pay attention to Oyadomari as a social reform activist and examine his descriptions of a series of "Okinawan relief proposals." So I want to make clear how Oyadomari produced "Jahana Den" for the purpose of social movement.
Specifically, it relates to certain keywords, such as "cooperative theory", "symbols of class overthrow", "spineless Okinawan’s ", "self-recovery ", "suffrage " and "eliminating discrimination", "assimilation", "denying pessimism", and "historicism". I plan to consider the relationship between the book "Gijin Jahana Noboru Den "and the thoughts and actions of its author in relation to social reformism.
