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The study focused on the issue of U.S. military bases in Okinawa, Japan, and a number of issues surrounding “collective determination” amid many current issues in East Asia. In the process of conducting analysis centered on lepo-style references and papers, we learned that political and military issues in Okinawa have formed a historical strata intertwined with western powers in east Asian history, not on issues between one and two countries. In conducting these studies, “Regionalism”, presented as a research method, was inspired by a paper by Marukawa (2003). “Regionalism” is a concept that has been used primarily in modern political science, but Marukawa (2003) gave the concept a new meaning. In other words, it defines it as a “sense of history” that finds historically accumulated structural connections between countries and forces in the region based on “regional liquidity” beyond the framework of the national state. In addition, the introduction of the concept of “geographic space” and “cultural space” within the framework of “region” was considered a valid idea for explaining Okinawa and analyzing the problem in East Asia. In this paper, Based on these research methods, the issue of “U.S. military bases” and “collective determination” was examined in the regionalism view of Marukawa (2003) after the Ryukyu Administration, As a result, it was classified as a period of four phases: 1. the change period of spatial awareness in Japan, 2.geographic distance sensor (geopolitics), 3.cultural distance sensor (cultural designation), and 4.cultural distance sensor adherence (cultural geography). In other words, the concept of “geographic space” and “cultural space” was introduced within the strata of history in East Asia and the framework of “region” to try to analyze the Okinawa problem. These attempts will give a new perspective on east Asia's history and political and military issues, and furthermore, it will become a new paradigm for east Asia's coexistence and peace building, which will expect to give many implications in the future.