Resistant Islands (eBook)

Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States

Gavan Mccormack, Satoko Oka Norimatsu (Autoren)

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2018 | 2., Second Edition
350 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1556-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Resistant Islands offers the first comprehensive overview of Okinawan history from earliest times to the present, focusing especially on the history of colonization by Japan, its disastrous fate during World War II, and its current status as a glorified US military base, supported by its client state Japan. This revised and expanded edition includes a substantive update in which the authors comprehensively analyze the dramatic events of the five years since the book was first published, including the deployment of MV-22 Ospreys, the Okinawa governor’s approval of the new base, and the emergence and challenges of the “all-Okinawa movement.”

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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 relationshipindeed, the geopolitics of the US empire of bases in the Pacific.

Autor

Gavan McCormack is emeritus professor at the Australian National University. Satoko Oka Norimatsu is an editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.

Inhalt

Preface to the Second EditionNotes on NamesChronologyChapter 1: Ryukyu/Okinawa: From Disposal to ResistanceChapter 2: War, Memory, and CommemorationChapter 3: Japan’s American Embrace and the “Partnership” for Peace and ProsperityChapter 4: Okinawa: Separation and ReversionChapter 5: Henoko: The Unwanted BaseChapter 6: The Hatoyama RevoltChapter 7: Post–Cold War: Elections and DemocracyChapter 8: Environment: The “Nonassessment”Chapter 9: “Deepening” the Alliance: The Kan AgendaChapter 10: “Deepening” the Alliance: Washington AgendasChapter 11: Senkaku/Diaoyu: Okinawa as Militarized Outpost or as Bridge of Nations?Chapter 12: Turning History Around: History as Lived ExperienceChapter 13: ProspectChapter 14: The All-Okinawa Movement since 2013BibliographyIndex About the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 30 Illustrations including: - 30 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Asian History • Asian Studies • Cold War • Japan Studies • Okinawa • United States Military Base • US military base • U.S. Military Base • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-1556-5 / 1538115565
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-1556-5 / 9781538115565