...Victoria Young 12 Nakazato Isao , “ Okinawa as an Intersection of Colonialisms: Toward Creating a Place Open to and Interconnecting with Asia ,” International Critical Thought 3 , no. 2 ( 2013 ): 183–97, 195 –96 . 11 Annmaria M. Shimabuku , Alegal...

...: 9783900362270 (paper). Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000 . By Tze May Loo . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2014 . xii, 209 pp. ISBN: 9780739182482 (cloth, also available as e-book). The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese...

... University of Washington Okinawa; The History of an Island People. By GEORGE H . KERR. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle, 1958. xviii, 542. Maps, Bibliography, Index. $6.75. The Okinawans and their culture have been of extraordinary interest to countless travellers and visitors for many...

...Paul S. Dull Command Decisions . Edited by Kent Roberts Greenfield . Washington, D. C. : Office of the Chief of Military History, U. S. Army , 1960 , viii, 565. Maps, Index. $4.50. Okinawa: The Last Battle . By Roy E. Appleman et al . Rutland and Tokyo : Charles E. Tuttle...

...Daniel D. Karasik Abstract Of the Many places on this globe that were touched by the withering blast of war, I doubt if in any the life of the people has been more completely changed than on Okinawa. This long, irregularly shaped island is just less than half the size of Rhode Island. In 1940...

...Alvin D. Coox The Battle for Okinawa . By Colonel Hiromichi Yahara . Translated By Roger Pineau and Masatoshi Uehara , with an introduction and commentary by Frank B. Gibney. New York : John Wiley and Sons , 1995 . xxv, 245 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Tze M. Loo Abstract This article situates the discourses produced during an anti– yuta shaman campaign in 1913 within a longer trajectory of the changing position of Okinawa's female ritualists following Japan's formal colonization of Okinawa. Women have historically dominated Okinawa's ritual...

...Alvin D. Coox Okinawa 1945: Gateway to Japan . By Ian Gow . Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company , 1985 . 224 pp. Illustrations, Chronology, Bibliography, Index. $16.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 151 Okinawa 1945: Gateway...

...Douglas H. Mendel, Jr. Public Diplomacy and Political Change—Four Case Studies: Okinawa, Peru, Czechoslovakia, Guinea . Edited by Gregor Henderson With S. W. Barton , Johannes A. Binnendijk and Carolyn Setlow . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1973 . xxxv, 339 pp. $21.50...

... II. The war in the Pacific. Guadalcanal: the first offensive . By John Miller, Jr . Washington, D.C. : Historical Division, Department of the Army , 1949 . xviii, 413 p. $4.00. United States Army in World War II. The war in the Pacific. Okinawa: the last battle . By Roy E. Appleman...

...David Fahy Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas . By Ōshiro Tatsuhiro and Higashi Mineo . Translated by Steve Rabson . Japan Research Monograph, 10. Berkeley : University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies , 1989 . xvi , 142 pp. $10.00...

...Valerie H. Barske Writing Okinawa: Narrative Acts of Identity and Resistance . By Davinder L. Bhowmik . London and New York : Routledge , 2008 . xiv, 234 pp. $170.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 In Writing Okinawa , Davinder Bhowmik...

...Chris Ames Abstract After the U.S. victory in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, devastated Okinawans lived off of U.S. military rations, including unfamiliar foods such as pork luncheon meat and corned beef hash. Okinawans incorporated these and other U.S.-made goods into daily life as “ Amerikamun...

...Gerald Figal Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity . Edited by Glenn D. Hook and Richard Siddle . London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon , 2003 . xii , 255 pp. $114.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 748 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T...

...Wendy Matsumura Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa: Women, Militarized Domesticity, and Transnationalism in East Asia . By Mire Koikari . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . xi, 235 pp. ISBN: 9781107079502 (cloth, also available in paper and as e...

...David Obermiller Okinawa and the U.S. Military: Identity Making in the Age of Globalization . By Masamichi S. Inoue . New York : Columbia University Press , 2007 . xiii , 296 pp. $48.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...

...David Tobaru Obermiller Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa . By Miyumi Tanji . New York : Routledge , 2006 . 256 pp. $120.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 In the late 1870s, Meiji Japan invented a new administrative term, “Okinawa...

...Katharine H. S. Moon Okinawa: Cold War Island . Edited by Chalmers Johnson . Cardiff, Calif. : Japan Policy Research Institute , 1999 . $20.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 556 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES that the nationalist vehemence...

...Helen Hardacre Women of the Sacred Groves, Divine Priestesses of Okinawa . By Susan Sered . New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1999 . $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 755 colonial policy...