Resistant Islands Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States |
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| Author:
| McCormack, Gavan
Norimatsu, Satoko Oka |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4422-1562-7 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2012 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $122.95 |
Book Description:
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Resistant Islands offers the first comprehensive overview of Okinawan history from earliest times to the present, focusing especially on the recent period of colonization by Japan, its disastrous fate during World War II, and its current status as a glorified US military base. The issue of the base is a hot button in Japan and has become more widely known in the wake of Japan's recent natural disasters and the US military role in emergency relief. Okinawanbsp;rejects the...
More DescriptionResistant Islands offers the first comprehensive overview of Okinawan history from earliest times to the present, focusing especially on the recent period of colonization by Japan, its disastrous fate during World War II, and its current status as a glorified US military base. The issue of the base is a hot button in Japan and has become more widely known in the wake of Japan's recent natural disasters and the US military role in emergency relief. Okinawanbsp;rejects the base-dominatednbsp;role allocated it by the US and Japanese governments under whichnbsp;priority attaches to its militarynbsp;functions, as a kind of stationary aircraft carrier. The result hasnbsp;been to throw US-Japan relations intonbsp;crisis, bringing down one prime minister and threateningnbsp;the incumbent if he is unable to delivernbsp;Okinawan approval of the new base. Okinawa thusnbsp;has become a template for reassessing the troublednbsp;US-Japan relationship--indeed, the geopoliticsnbsp;of the US empire of bases in the Pacific.