Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power

by Laura Hein and Aaron Gerow

Book Overview

Exploring contemporary Okinawan culture, politics, and historical memory, this book argues that the long Japanese tradition of defining Okinawa as a subordinate and peripheral part of Japan means that all claims of Okinawan distinctiveness necessarily become part of the larger debate over contemporary identity. The contributors trace the renascence of the debate in the burst of cultural and political expression that has flowered in the past decade,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742518655
• ISBN13: 9780742518650
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 352 Pages