The Okinawan Reversion Story
Author | : Gordon Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gordon Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Miyume Tanji |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2007-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134217609 |
Okinawan people have developed a unique tradition of protest in their long history of oppression and marginalization. Beginning with the Ryukyu Kingdom’s annexation to Japan in the late nineteenth century, Miyume Tanji charts the devastation caused by the Second World War, followed by the direct occupation of post-war Okinawa and continued presence of the US military forces in the wake of reversion to Japan in 1972. With ever more fragmented organizations, identities and strategies, Tanji explores how the unity of the Okinawan community of protest has come to rest increasingly on the politics of myth and the imagination. Drawing on original interview material with Okinawan protestors and in-depth analysis of protest history, Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa will appeal to scholars of Japanese history and politics, and those working on social movements and protest.
Author | : Gavan McCormack |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2018-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1538115565 |
Now in a thoroughly updated edition, Resistant Islands offers the first comprehensive overview of Okinawan history from earliest times to the present, focusing especially on the recent period of colonization by Japan, its disastrous fate during World War II, and its current status as a glorified US military base. The base is a hot-button issue in Japan and has become more widely known in the wake of Japan’s 2011 natural disasters and the US military role in emergency relief. Okinawa rejects the base-dominated role allocated it by the US and Japanese governments under which priority attaches to its military functions, as a kind of stationary aircraft carrier. The result has been to throw US-Japan relations into crisis, bringing down one prime minister who tried to stop construction of yet another base on the island and threatening the incumbent if he is unable to deliver Okinawan approval of the new base. Okinawa thus has become a template for reassessing the troubled US-Japan relationship—indeed, the geopolitics of the US empire of bases in the Pacific.
Author | : Robert D. Eldridge |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780739107102 |
"State Department's desire to uphold the Atlantic Charter by rejecting territorial expansion; Amamian activists' assertive argument for reversion to Japanese rule; and the Japanese government's work to reach an agreement with the United States. Eldridge draws on original documents from the reversion movement, several volumes of memoirs and remembrances written by participants in the movement, and numerous declassified documents of the Japanese and U.S. governments.
Author | : Theodore R. McElroy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arnold G. Fisch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Military government on Okinawa from the first stages of planning until the transition toward a civil administration.
Author | : Pedro Iacobelli |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2017-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498533124 |
This edited volume presents the latest multidisciplinary research that delves into developments related to contemporary Okinawa (a.k.a Ryukyu Islands), and also engages with contemporary debates on American hegemony and Empire in a larger geographical context. Okinawa, long viewed as a marginalized territory in larger historical processes, has been characterized solely by the U.S. military presence in the islands, despite having embraced a multiplicity of social and cultural transformations since the end of the Pacific War. In this timely academic revision of Okinawa, occurring at the time of numerous debates over the building of yet another military base in the island, this volume's contributors tell a story that situates Okinawa in the context of other militarized territories and thus, goes beyond the limits of Okinawa prefecture. Indeed, the book examines the ways in which studies on Okinawa have evolved, moving away from the direct problems brought by the establishment of foreign military bases. Previous studies have explicated how Okinawa has fallen prey to power politics of more dominant nations. In expanding on these themes, this volume examines the unique social and cultural dynamics of Okinawa and its people that had never been intended by the political authorities.
Author | : Ina Hein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Okinawa Island (Japan) |
ISBN | : 9783900362270 |
Author | : Ruth Ann Keyso |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780801486654 |
"Three of the women were born before the Pacific War, and their first memories of Americans are of troops coming ashore with bayonets fixed. A second group, now middle-aged, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, when massive American bases were a fixture of the landscape. The youngest women, for whom the bases are a historical accident, are in their twenties and thirties, raised in a country increasingly confident of its status as a world power.".
Author | : Laura Hein |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2003-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461637929 |
Exploring contemporary Okinawan culture, politics, and historical memory, this book argues that the long Japanese tradition of defining Okinawa as a subordinate and peripheral part of Japan means that all claims of Okinawan distinctiveness necessarily become part of the larger debate over contemporary identity. The contributors trace the renascence of the debate in the burst of cultural and political expression that has flowered in the past decade, with the rapid growth of local museums and memorials and the huge increase in popularity of distinctive Okinawan music and literature, as well as in political movements targeting both U.S. military bases and Japanese national policy on ecological, developmental, and equity grounds. A key strategy for claiming and shaping Okinawan identity is the mobilization of historical memory of the recent past, particularly of the violent subordination of Okinawan interests to those of the Japanese and American governments in war and occupation. Its intertwining themes of historical memory, nationality, ethnicity, and cultural conflict in contemporary society address central issues in anthropology, sociology, contemporary history, Asian Studies, international relations, cultural studies, and post-colonial studies. Contributions by: Matt Allen, Linda Isako Angst, Asato Eiko, Gerald Figal, Aaron Gerow, Laura Hein, Michael Molasky, Steve Rabson, James E. Roberson, Mark Selden, and Julia Yonetani.