Talk:Okinawa (city)

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(This page used to be a redirect to Talk:Okinawa Prefecture)--221.190.2.1 12:40, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Uchinaa is NOT the name of Okinawa City in the local dialect. Uchinaa refers only to the island and it has a strong connotation of distinctive culture/identity. Local people call the city "Okinawa shi" or "Koza". (83.7.186.251 07:53, 19 May 2007 (UTC))

Okinawa City
Shortly after Okinawa reverted to Japanese rule, the local government changed the name from Koza to Okinawa City to in an effort to increase Japanese tourists from the mainland. The name is officially, Okinawa City. Also, Uchinaa ウチナー　is Okinawan dialect (hogen 方言) and means "Okinawan". An Uchinanchū ウチナンチュー means an Okinawan native. Since the official name for the city is Okinawa City, all incidences of Okinawa (in reference to the city, not the island) on this page needs to be changed to Okinawa City. I'll do it, but I don't want to start a war, so I'll wait for comments first. --fizzman 07:30, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Okinawa City (沖縄市 Okinawa-shi) is correctly identified by Fizzman as being distinct from Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県 Okinawa-ken). Okinawa City has quite a long history and a broad geography, predating even discussions strictly limited to Koza/Goeku and Misato (records of the area date back to at least 1666). The history section of this article, however, focuses only on one specific intersection near Gate 2 of Kadena Air Base and only from a highly biased black American point of view. The area, which is no longer referred to as "The Bush" and has recently undergone a complete rebuild and image lift, represents not a part of Okinawa City history so much as a singular American social event which was imported along with the military itself. I move that the history section of Okinawa City needs to be completely rewritten and the section on "The Bush" be cleaned up, totally refocused, and detached as an independent article -- if an article it even deserves -- as it is of no actual significance to the overall history of Okinawa City or and has never been a meaningful reality to the Okinawan residents there. TheGiantPotato (talk) 06:00, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The article would benefit from additional material on the history of what is now the city. Presently, the material you mentioned is out of proportion to the rest of the history section. Properly edited, though, it may be a valuable component of an expanded section. But detaching it into an independent article, with a brief summary in the present article, could also work. Fg2 (talk) 10:21, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

History
The History of Okinawa section seems to just be a bunch of vitriol directed at the American presence on the island...It is badly in need of a rewrite. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Burntorange72 (talk • contribs) 18:57, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree concerning the section on the "Bush" I lived in Koza for a year and a half and the "Bush" was at best a minor referenced area that one would not go to unless he was black or accompanied by a black friend.  Koza was, when I lived there, a rather nice place once you got past the bars that serviced the armed forces.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.155.110.2 (talk) 19:46, 20 May 2009 (UTC)