The Boundaries of 'the Japanese'
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The Boundaries of 'the Japanese'

Volume 1: Okinawa 1818-1972 - Inclusion and Exclusion

  1. 431 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Boundaries of 'the Japanese'

Volume 1: Okinawa 1818-1972 - Inclusion and Exclusion

About this book

The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have operated for centuries in the island chain that constitutes Japan's southernmost prefecture, Okinawa - otherwise known as the Ryukyu Islands. Are the people of Okinawa 'Japanese' or not 'Japanese'? Answers to this puzzling question are explored in this richly-detailed volume, written by one of Japan's foremost public intellectuals, historical sociologist Eiji Oguma. Here, Oguma addresses issues of Okinawan sovereignty and its people's changing historical, cultural, and linguistic identity, over more than 150 years until its 1972 reversion to Japanese control, following its administration by the US from the end of the Pacific War.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Chronological Table
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Map of the main island of Okinawa
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The Ryukyu Disposition(Ryūkyū shobun)
  7. 2 Okinawan Education and ‘Japanisation’
  8. 3 The Creation of Okinawan Nationalism
  9. 4 The Distortion of Orientalism
  10. 5 Islands on the Boundary
  11. 6 From Pro-independence toPro-reversion Discources
  12. 7 The Significance of ‘Japan, the Ancestral Land’
  13. 8 The Idea of Progressive Nationalism
  14. 9 The Dialect Placards of the 1960s
  15. 10 Anti-Reversion
  16. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Name Index
  20. Subject Index