... 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...

... customs—a project designed to transform the hearts and minds of the Okinawan people in preparation for the establishment of capitalist relations of production in the prefecture—and Okinawa’s female producer-merchants. Prominent local intellectual Ōta Chōfu and others urged the Okinawan people to change...

... of imperialism.” It takes up the work of Okinawan writer Shinj? Ikuo, who warns that the first rule of struggling against the colonial nature of knowledge production is to “not speak carelessly.” Thinking with another Okinawan writer, Okamoto Keitoku, Shinj? cautions that careless speech places people in danger...

... assimilatory strategies that local intellectuals had advocated during much of the Meiji period. Ōta Chōfu and Iha Fuyū’s came to believe that instilling pride in the Okinawan people through the promotion of history, arts, and culture was the only measure to counter the state’s proposal to transform Okinawa...

... of Okinawa’s economy following the post-World War I recession and the establishment of Marxist organizations in the 1920s, which undermined the type of Okinawan solidarity that prominent local intellectuals like Ōta Chōfu and Oyadomari Kōei thought necessary for the attainment of economic recovery...

... This memoir begins in 1990 when sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joins the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). She becomes close friends with older queers who help her develop a nuanced understanding of her multiracial Okinawan queer identity...

... This memoir begins in 1990 when sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joins the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). She becomes close friends with older queers who help her develop a nuanced understanding of her multiracial Okinawan queer identity...

... This memoir begins in 1990 when sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joins the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). She becomes close friends with older queers who help her develop a nuanced understanding of her multiracial Okinawan queer identity...

... This memoir begins in 1990 when sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joins the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). She becomes close friends with older queers who help her develop a nuanced understanding of her multiracial Okinawan queer identity...

... This memoir begins in 1990 when sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joins the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). She becomes close friends with older queers who help her develop a nuanced understanding of her multiracial Okinawan queer identity...

... This memoir begins in 1990 when sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joins the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). She becomes close friends with older queers who help her develop a nuanced understanding of her multiracial Okinawan queer identity...

... This memoir begins in 1990 when sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joins the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). She becomes close friends with older queers who help her develop a nuanced understanding of her multiracial Okinawan queer identity...

... This memoir begins in 1990 when sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joins the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). She becomes close friends with older queers who help her develop a nuanced understanding of her multiracial Okinawan queer identity...

... This memoir begins in 1990 when sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joins the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). She becomes close friends with older queers who help her develop a nuanced understanding of her multiracial Okinawan queer identity...

... This memoir begins in 1990 when sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joins the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). She becomes close friends with older queers who help her develop a nuanced understanding of her multiracial Okinawan queer identity...

... This memoir begins in 1990 when sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joins the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). She becomes close friends with older queers who help her develop a nuanced understanding of her multiracial Okinawan queer identity...