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...James E. Roberson This paper maps Okinawan songs from both pre- and postwar periods that have narrated Okinawan experiences of war and prayers for peace, arguing that these songs may be heard as sites of memory that trace Okinawa's conflicted positions within the Japanese empire and state...

... For the past few centuries, Okinawan efforts to assimilate with “Yamato”have been consistently betrayed.-Oshiro Tatsuhiro2 Among the displays touting the industrialized progress and future of the nation at the 1903 Fifth Industrial...

... the commanding general of the Japanese forces on Okinawa committed suicide). The memorial represents an unpre- cedented Okinawan initiative and boasts the reputedly unique characteris- tic of memorializing all casualties of the conflict...

... of remembering the Battle of Okinawa within history textbooks, memori- als, and anniversary commemorative events, personal memories of survivors have tended to fall within these two categories as well.2 The protest of over 110,000 Okinawans at the end...

... and at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University dur- ing the 1999–2000 academic year. He specializes in comparative culture and East Asian studies, particularly Okinawan and Taiwanese cultural issues and ethnic revival or revitalization...

...: Transnational Labors of South Korea since 1965, forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press. James E. Roberson is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Tokyo Jogakkan College. His publications on Okinawan music include “Uchina¯ Pop...

... and Okinawan Identity in Postwar Japan .” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 20 , no. 1 : 100 – 13 . Arruzza Cinzia . 2014 . “ Remarks on Gender .” Viewpoint Magazine , September 2 . www.viewpointmag.com/2014/09/02/remarks-on-gender/ . Bhandar Brenna . 2018 . The Colonial...

...- nial management in the South Sea Islands. Much of the necessary labor power for colonial management, apart from that for phosphorous mining operations, was brought in from Okinawa. The number of Okinawans in the territory especially...

... this strategy, Takahashi has already constructed large resorts on Miyako Island and Kohama Island, two other Okinawan islands. Taka- hashi recently moved his residency to Taketomi Ward, paying 1.4 trillion yen (approximately $12 million) to the local...

... times that of the United States—but also the world’s longest disability-free life expectancy. According to The Okinawa Program by Bradley Willcox, Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki, Okinawan society reflects a cultural...

...) and is interested in postcolonial criticism and translation studies. Kyle Ikeda is assistant professor of Japanese literature at the University of Vermont. His publications include Okinawan War Memory: Transgenerational Trauma and the War Fiction...

... written to capture the more ambivalent reactions among colonized populations. Alan S. Christy’s recent publication represents a rare exception, in which he asks why Okinawans accepted the colonial formulation of Oki- nawan identity as essentially...

... mak- ing, which entailed the colonial subjugation of the Ainu, Okinawans, Kore- ans, and Chinese, along with the effacement of regional differences that transformed variegated peasants and town dwellers into imperial subjects...

... universi- ties, Naha City Okinawan public scholars, Taiwan indigenous movement activists, Iriomote residents, and supporters of environmental justice like Kinsei Ishigaki. The everydayness of ritual performances, birth, erosion...

... claimed that there were no facts proving that the Japanese empire forced the Okinawans to commit “mass suicide.” They explained that no military orders existed for such a mass suicide and that this great patriotic deed was rather one in which...

... configuration. Japan’s border is defined as “inner land” only in the context where Japan needs to differen- tiate itself not only from Korea, but also from Okinawa or Hokkaido, the ethnic (Korean, Okinawan, Ainu, respectively...

... Selden, eds., Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2000); and Laura Hein and Mark Selden, eds., Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power (Lanham, Md...

... their own crimes against their ethnic and racial minorities including the Ainu, Korean, and Okinawan peoples.52 When Julius Lester’s historical work To Be a Slave was translated and published in the prestigious Iwanami series in 1968, In-Soo Hwang...

... the International Council of Women; and Okinawan women farmers and Japanese feminists who struggled against imperialism and mili- tarism in the context of the Cold War. This record of East Asian feminisms that reaches beyond the Cold War in temporal, geographic, and ideological scope confirms the provincialism...

.... The Military Does Not Protect Women spotlighted showing how both the Japanese and the US militaries abused Okinawan women. WAM also helps to curate comfort women museums in South Korea, China, and the Philippines (Watanabe 2017). On a global level, we have been deeply involved in PeaceWomen Across the Globe...