...Shigeki Takeo 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 A Message to the World Shigeki Takeo Iriomote Island, one of many beautiful natural settings of the Ryukyu Is- lands, is standing on the verge of environmental destruction. A group...

... of the colonial heritage, and a certain political event that cannot be fully positions 12:1 Spring 2004 4 characterized because its primary author makes so few claims for it. Takeo’s decade-long connection to Iriomote Island...

...? ST: In Sonai Village, Iriomote Island, for example, where I continue to observe rituals, one of the central ones that honored ancestors was almost lost. This was due in part to the Seinen-kai, or youth associations, which had conventionally...