Jahana Noboru

Jahana Noboru (謝花 昇, November 16, 1865 – October 26, 1908) was an official in the government of Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, and an Okinawan rights activist, in connection with the Freedom and People's Rights Movement (自由民権運動, Jiyū minken undō).

Jahana Noboru was born in 1865 into a farming family in Kochinda magiri[1][2] on Okinawa, then part of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

[4] He also helped establish the Agriculture and Industry Bank (農工銀行, Nōkō ginkō), and was involved in forestry and other related projects.

Returning to Tokyo, Jahana joined with Tōyama Kyūzō[4] and gathered together other commoners of a like mind, forming the "Okinawa Club" and beginning a suffrage movement.

[4] The movement was opposed by the governor, prefectural government, and various former officials, who strongly pressured the organization, and eventually forced it to break up.