At that time, the people in Okinawa were increasingly more conscious that those who lived in Okinawa, including Chofu OTA, were citizens of the Empire of Japan and are in the same ethnic group as the people on mainland Japan, so the protest was also meant to complain about being treated equally to the other ethnic groups.
当時の世情として太田朝敷や沖縄県民は、大日本帝国の一員であり本土出身者と同じ日本民族だとの意識が広まりつつあったため、他の民族と同列に扱うことへの抗議でもあった。