...Mire Koikari 40 Years since Reversion: Negotiating the Okinawan Difference in Japan Today . Edited by Ina Hein and Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer . Vienna : Department of East Asian Studies/Japanese Studies, University of Vienna , 2015 . 277 pp. ISBN...

...Robert K. Sakai Ryukyu: A Bibliographical Guide to Okinawan Studies . By Shunzo Sakamaki . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1963 . xv , 353 . Appendices, Indices. $10.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 478 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Japanese...

... societies. It will be cited frequently. Most of the contributors are relative newcomers in the field of Japanese studies in the United States. The quality of their work in this book shows that the future of the field is in good hands. JOHN M. MAKI University of Massachusetts Okinawan Religion: Belief...

...Robert J. Smith The Great Loochoo: A Study of Okinawan Village Life . By Clarence J. Glacken . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1955 . xvi , 324. $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 BOOK REVIEWS 429 A more literal version, In the dead...

...: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life ( New York : Fordham University Press , 2019 ) . 10 Mao Ishikawa , Red Flower: The Women of Okinawa , trans. Jun Sato ( New York : Session Press , 2017 ) . 9 George H. Kerr , Okinawa: The History...

...Davinder Bhowmik Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power . Edited by Laura Hein and Mark Selden . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2003 . 352 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 508 T H E...

... of women who became sex workers in the G.I. bar/brothels. She focuses on gender and labor issues in analyzing their considerable, but largely unacknowledged, contribution to Okinawa's Occupation-era economy that was heavily dependent on US military projects and purchases. She quotes Okinawan women...

...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...

... world as its practitioners, but their power and position were less certain by the 1940s. Examining the arguments produced in newspaper articles and by the prominent Okinawan intellectual Iha Fuyū in 1913, this article argues that the campaign contributed to the erosion of these women's position...

... demonstrates a welcome and nuanced analysis of Okinawa as contested terrain, noting that the Okinawan people have a unique tradition of protest in their long history of oppression and marginalization. The contention is that, as a result of this long-term marginalization, Okinawans did not passively accept...

... In this ambitious ethnographical study, Masamichi S. Inoue attempts to explain how the large, long-standing, and continuing U.S. military presence in Okinawa contributed to the formation of a postwar Okinawan identity, a culture of resistance, and a deep sense of island solidarity. By the 1990s, when Inoue...

..., a rather modern and Western notion, but because he viewed imperial subjecthood as predicated upon military conscription and being children of the emperor. I examine the removal of the Okinawan women, Nakamura Kame and Uehara Ushi, from the display, amidst a larger debate where competing visions of imperial...

... presents the first English-language monograph on Okinawan fiction featuring astute analyses of literary works spanning the early 1900s through the 21 st century. As current geopolitical realities reinforce Okinawa's complex historical positionality, Bhowmik provides a timely treatment of how Okinawan...

... counterpart, Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power (ed. Laura Hein and Mark Selden [Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Little eld largely succeeds. If one can get past the functional but dull title, one stands to come away from the volume with refreshing new perspectives on Okinawa...

... the political and cultural back-and-forth nature that Okinawa endured as it moved from Chinese influence to Japanese domination to U.S. occupation and back to Japanese jurisdiction in less than 100 years. And he makes it clear that Okinawans were sometimes complicit in the undoing of their identity and culture...

... in the field of Japanese studies in the United States. The quality of their work in this book shows that the future of the field is in good hands. JOHN M. MAKI University of Massachusetts Okinawan Religion: Belief, Ritual, and Social Structure. BY WILLIAM P. LEBRA. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1966...

... Accounts of victimization and the suffering of Okinawan people abound, but the strength of the volume lies in the accounts of Okinawans' efforts to reclaim their histories and forge new visions of economic development, environmental harmony, and international cooperation for human rights and justice...

.... Molasky is primarily concerned in his book with "occupation literature," a term he coins for literary works written by Japanese mainland, Okinawan, and women writers that "depict interaction between the American occupiers and the occupied populace" (p. 3). He examines relatively wellknown works...

... became increasingly strong until 1871 when Okinawa was administrated by the Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan. Finally, in 1879 Okinawa became a prefecture of Japan. The Okinawans are a mild-mannered, courteous, and subservient people who greatly resemble the Japanese but do not value exactness, orderliness...

... 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...