... This chapter lays the foundations for later examinations of the conflicts that took place between living and dead labor in Okinawa. It will trace Okinawa prefecture’s inclusion into the Japanese nation-state qua empire from the 1870s in a manner that established it as a periphery—simultaneously...

... This chapter examines the difficulty that large-scale mainland sugar capital faced in keeping their factories operating at full capacity on entering the prefecture in 1910. The problem was that central Okinawa’s sugar producers chose to manufacture their own lower-grade sugar through small-scale...

... This chapter investigates two major protest movements that unfolded in the summer of 1931 in northern Okinawa, the Oogimi Village Reform Movement and the Arashiyama Incident. It situates these movements within the development of internal tensions that were accelerated by the collapse...

... This chapter considers the neocolonial condition of Okinawa. Situated at the geopolitical threshold of East Asia and the Northwest Pacific, Okinawa became an increasingly important subject of knowledge in anthropology and area studies during the 1940s. After the Allied powers’ victory, Okinawa...

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...Space of Occupation This chapter considers the neocolonial condition of Okinawa. Situated at the geopolitical threshold of East Asia and the Northwest Pacific, Okinawa became an increasingly important subject of knowledge in anthropology and area studies during the 1940s. After the Allied...

... Chapter 6 discusses the recruitment of Okinawan workers into the phosphate industry in the Pacific prior to the Japanese state’s colonization of the northern Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline islands. By documenting the over three hundred workers from Okinawa who were transported to Banaba Island...

... and policy of preserving old customs and structures played in rationalizing the endocolonization that the Japanese state required in its peripheries during the initial stages of its own formation. What emerges from this investigation is that the implementation in Okinawa of a capitalist mode of production...

... This chapter examines the tensions that emerged in the late nineteenth century between the first generation of Okinawa’s intellectuals and female weavers soon after the Miyako island peasantry. It focuses on the conflicts that took place between local advocates of the movement to reform old...

... Chapter 7 focuses on the refusals that were a regular response to imperialist domination in Okinawa. It engages Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk in order to read colonial ledgers as repositories of contestation rather than faithful assimilation, and argues that accepting opacity in the archives...