... chain under the jurisdiction of Okinawa prefecture, was celebrated by ethnologists and folklorists during this time as a treasure trove of Japanese culture. This essay traces the relationship between the valorization of Yaeyama arts in the interwar period and the organization of a small group of poets...

... Anthropological Association in San Jose, Cali- fornia, where I heard an outstanding presentation by Christopher Ames, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.11 According to Ames, Okinawa, like Hawai’i, is home to several U.S. military bases, and Japanese...

... 29, 1989”; Becky Thompson, “Multiracial Feminism”; and Juliana Pegues, “Strategies from the Field: Organizing as an Asian American Feminist.” Other works included Yoko Fukumura amd Martha Matsuoka’s “Okinawa Women’s Resistance to US...

... History Review Massacres and Memories So much scholarly and journalistic attention has been paid to Japanese violence against civilians in China and Okinawa during World War II that little or no notice has been taken of the massacres...

... blockbuster, Ripples of War, takes three military campaigns—Okinawa, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Delium (the Pelo- ponnesian war again)—to show what has provoked the West to perfect its capacity and to bolster its will to inflict mass destruction. With Victor Davis Hansen playing Homer to Bush...

... be conjectured, Stalin acquiesced in that policy. The Russians could have swept down the whole peninsula since, after the Japanese surrender on August 15, THE COLD WAR AND ASIA 143 the closest American forces were in Okinawa, still three weeks away. Even...

... to legitimize modern identities and ideologies. It also shows how the premodern may be reincorporated as the source of alternative visions of the same past. During the interwar period, the indigenous cultures of Yaeyama, a chain of islands in the Okinawa prefecture, were hailed as representative...

... mind is as much about the present as it is about the past. In Japan, it influencesdebates about defense policy, unacknowl- edged access of U.S. nuclear submarines to Japanese ports, and US. military bases in Okinawa. In the US., as Sherry explains, conservative proponents of ”patriotic culture...

... hand-outs. ON BUTOW, SAYLE, AND KYOKO: There is a chance meeting in Heaven of President Truman, a Japanese girl named Reiko who died in Hiroshima, General Anami, and a Black American soldier named Bill who died at the battle of Okinawa. They have a long conversation about the way the war...

... to “terrorist activities” in Asia and Southeast Asia.25 With the transfer of military personnel from Okinawa and the construction of new military facilities in Guam, the island is also experiencing another round of securitization because of fears of an impending terrorist attack.26 148  Radical History...

...- dise. Yet the state is also the militarized hub of the United States’ vast archipelago of military bases, stretching from Pearl Harbor to Guam to Okinawa. As Teresia Teaiwa has argued, tourism and the military work together to obscure long histories of colonial conquest, resource extraction...

... . Onishi Yuichiro . 2013 . Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in Twentieth-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa . New York : New York University Press . Pocket Guides . Section I—General (1 January 1, 1955–December 31, 1956), box 22, General Subject Files, decimal file 461...

... by the victims of the Japanese. All the place names that have become synonymous with Japanese brutality during the war are covered, from Bataan to Nanking to the Thai-Burma Railway. Culpability for Japanese victimiza- tion at Okinawa, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki is pointed squarely at the Japanese...

... countries in East Asia. The security treaty granted the United States “the continued and fundamentally unrestricted use of bases in Japan proper and total administrative control over Okinawa.” The Korean War was an important condition behind Washington’s request for the extended use of the bases...

... research on Shinto¯: Tokyo University, Ko¯ten Ko¯kyu¯jo, and Jingu¯ Ko¯gakukan (the Ise Centre of Imperial Studies). Wachutka, Kokugaku in Meiji- Period Japan, 130. During the 1880s, the Ko¯kyu¯jo built branches in every prefecture except Okinawa, and by the end of 1883, fourteen branch...

... migration. See Woods , “Building Empire’s Archipelago” and Flores , “‘No Walk in the Park.’” For a similar study of Okinawa, see Zulueta , “Living as Migrants in a Place That Was Once Home.” 25. HUSAFFEEUSA, “Logistics in the Korean Operations, Vol. 3,” chap. 5, p. 71. 26. Gough , U.S...

... American Occupation tour, approved 21 August 1988; ibid., Box 65, “Alcatraz-Program Evaluation” file. 89. Ranger Craig Glassner recalled that some of the indigenous people who came to the 1998 UnThanksgiving were from Okinawa, and that they made connections between the occupation of Alcatraz...