Overview
- The Okinawa Prefectural Archives received the late scholar Takashi Wakaizumi’s suicide note in a donation dated November 20 and held a handover ceremony on November 21.
- Wakaizumi, a secret emissary to Prime Minister Eisaku Sato during Okinawa reversion talks, was involved in negotiations tied to a U.S.–Japan nuclear-related understanding.
- The archives said the materials will be available for viewing and copying starting December 9 in Haebaru, Okinawa.
- The note, prepared as a plea to Okinawans, expresses deep remorse and cites his heavy “result responsibility”; Wakaizumi died by poisoning in July 1996.
- The papers had been kept by acquaintances in Fukui Prefecture and were donated through Echizen City, with the archive’s director calling them valuable for examining post‑reversion issues.