 Many protests have been staged, but due to the lack of a united political struggle for national independence, these protests have a limited political horizon, although some consider them to be an extension of the independence and anti-reversionist movement, replacing the previous reversion movement of the 1970s with anti-base and self-determination struggle.Nomura Koya claims that the protests are finally beginning to confront Okinawans with Japanese and American imperialism.In September 1995, 85,000 people protested because of the U.S. military rape incident.