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基本説明
This book offers a comprehensive overview of Okinawan history over half a millennium from the Ryukyu Kingdom to the present, focusing especially on the colonization by Japan, the islands' disastrous fate during World War II, and their subsequent and continuing subordination to US military purpose.
Full Description
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 issue of the base is a hot button in Japan and has become more widely known in the wake of Japan's recent 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 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.
Contents
Chapter 1Chapter 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 "Non-Assessment"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: ProspectBibliography
