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Resistant Islands
Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States
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About this book
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 relationshipāindeed, the geopolitics of the US empire of bases in the Pacific.
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Yes, you can access Resistant Islands by Gavan McCormack,Satoko Oka Norimatsu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Histoire & Histoire du Japon. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition: Six Years On
- Note on Names
- Chronology
- Chapter 1: Ryukyu/Okinawa
- Chapter 2: War, Memory, and Commemoration
- Chapter 3: Japanās American Embrace and the āPartnershipā for Peace and Prosperity
- Chapter 4: Okinawa
- Chapter 5: Henoko
- Chapter 6: The Hatoyama Revolt
- Chapter 7: PostāCold War
- Chapter 8: Environment
- Chapter 9: āDeepeningā the Alliance
- Chapter 10: āDeepeningā the Alliance
- Chapter 11: Senkaku/Diaoyu
- Chapter 12: Turning History Around
- Chapter 13: Prospect
- Chapter 14: The All-Okinawa Movement since 2013
- Bibliography
- About the Authors