Okinawa Under Occupation

Author : Miyume Tanji
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981105598X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Okinawa Under Occupation written by Miyume Tanji and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines classical and modern interpretations of education in the context of contemporary Okinawa as a site of neoliberal military-industrial development. Considering how media educate consumers to accept the plans and policies of the powerful, it questions current concepts of development and the ideology that informs national security policies. The book closely examines the signs, symbols, and rhetorical manipulations of language used in media to rationalize and justify a kind of development, which is the destruction of the environment in Henoko. Through careful analysis of public relations literature and public discourse, it challenges the presupposition that Okinawa is the Keystone of the Pacific and necessarily the only location in Japan to host U.S. military presence. Forced to co-operate in America’s military hegemony and global war-fighting action, Okinawa is at the very center of the growing tension between Beijing and Washington and its clients in Tokyo and Seoul. The book represents a case study of the discourse used in society to wield control over this larger project, which is a more developed and militarized Okinawa . Considering how history is given shape through external power structures and discourse practices that seek control over both historical and contemporary narratives, it reveals how public attitudes and perceptions are shaped through educational policies and media.

Author : Kensei Yoshida
Publisher : Western Washington Univ
ISBN 13 : 9780914584247
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy Betrayed written by Kensei Yoshida and published by Western Washington Univ. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael S. Molasky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113465278X
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa written by Michael S. Molasky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the Japanese and Okinawans remember Occupation? How is memory constructed and transmitted? Michael Molasky explores these questions through careful, sensitive readings of literature from mainland Japan and Okinawa. This book sheds light on difficult issues of war, violence, prostitution, colonialism and post-colonialism in the context of the Occupations of Japan and Okinawa.

Author : Pedro Iacobelli
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498533124
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Postwar Okinawa written by Pedro Iacobelli and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides a multidisciplinary study of postwar and contemporary Okinawa. The contributors analyze the unique social and cultural transformations that have occurred outside the context of American military control or US–Japan relations.

Author : Hideko Yoshimoto
Publisher : Japanese Society
ISBN 13 : 9781925608885
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.s. Occupation of Okinawa written by Hideko Yoshimoto and published by Japanese Society. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, U.S. public affairs activities aimed to persuade the local Okinawan public that the U.S. administration of Okinawa should be maintained. The U.S. maintains military bases around the globe, while advocating democratic ideals, including freedom of the press. Yet, while declaring the occupation of Okinawa necessary for the defence of democracy, the U.S. military administration vigorously repressed freedoms of speech, assembly, the media and self-determination. This landmark study explores and uncovers the labyrinthine manipulations and mechanisms established to continue to defend the hard deployment of military forces through the soft power techniques of public relations.

Author : Miyume Tanji
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134217609
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa written by Miyume Tanji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890969694
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keystone written by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In reaching his conclusions about U.S. foreign policy. Sarantakes uses recently declassified documents to craft a careful consideration of America's larger strategic purposes. His examination of the American administration of Okinawa and the problems it posed for relations between the two nations focuses on their interaction "on the ground" in the Ryuku Islands. Several factors caused the Americans to falter, while Okinawan and Japanese resistance helped speed along the return of the islands."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Courtney A. Short
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823288390
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uniquely Okinawan written by Courtney A. Short and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely Okinawan explores how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945–46.

Author : Michael S. Molasky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134652798
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa written by Michael S. Molasky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through careful analysis of literary texts and attention to writers and works long excluded from Japan's postwar literary canon, this book introduces fresh perspectives on the occupation era.

Author : Johanna O. Zulueta
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813297875
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases written by Johanna O. Zulueta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the role of civilian workers on U.S. bases in Okinawa, Japan and how transnational movements within East Asia during the Occupation period brought foreign workers, mostly from the Philippines, to work on these bases. Decades later, in a seeming “reproduction of base labour”, returnees of both Okinawan and Philippine heritage began occupying jobs on base as United States of Japan (USFJ) employees. The book investigates the role that ethnicity, nationality, and capital play in the lives of these base employees, and at the same time examines how Japanese and Okinawan identity/ies are formed and challenged. It offers a valuable resource for those interested in Japan and Okinawa, U.S. military basing, migration, and mixed ethnicities.