Resistant Islands
Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States
2nd Edition
Published on 8. March 2018
1 pages
979-8-216-22970-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Gavan McCormack | Satoko Oka Norimatsu
Resistant Islands
Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States
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2nd Edition
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Gavan McCormack is emeritus professor at the Australian National University.
Satoko Oka Norimatsu is an editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
Satoko Oka Norimatsu is an editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
Content
Preface to the Second Edition
Notes on Names
Chronology
Chapter 1: Ryukyu/Okinawa: From Disposal to Resistance
Chapter 2: War, Memory, and Commemoration
Chapter 3: Japan's American Embrace and the "Partnership" for Peace and Prosperity
Chapter 4: Okinawa: Separation and Reversion
Chapter 5: Henoko: The Unwanted Base
Chapter 6: The Hatoyama Revolt
Chapter 7: Post-Cold War: Elections and Democracy
Chapter 8: Environment: The "Nonassessment"
Chapter 9: "Deepening" the Alliance: The Kan Agenda
Chapter 10: "Deepening" the Alliance: Washington Agendas
Chapter 11: Senkaku/Diaoyu: Okinawa as Militarized Outpost or as Bridge of Nations?
Chapter 12: Turning History Around: History as Lived Experience
Chapter 13: Prospect
Chapter 14: The All-Okinawa Movement since 2013
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Notes on Names
Chronology
Chapter 1: Ryukyu/Okinawa: From Disposal to Resistance
Chapter 2: War, Memory, and Commemoration
Chapter 3: Japan's American Embrace and the "Partnership" for Peace and Prosperity
Chapter 4: Okinawa: Separation and Reversion
Chapter 5: Henoko: The Unwanted Base
Chapter 6: The Hatoyama Revolt
Chapter 7: Post-Cold War: Elections and Democracy
Chapter 8: Environment: The "Nonassessment"
Chapter 9: "Deepening" the Alliance: The Kan Agenda
Chapter 10: "Deepening" the Alliance: Washington Agendas
Chapter 11: Senkaku/Diaoyu: Okinawa as Militarized Outpost or as Bridge of Nations?
Chapter 12: Turning History Around: History as Lived Experience
Chapter 13: Prospect
Chapter 14: The All-Okinawa Movement since 2013
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
