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Resistant Islands - Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States (Paperback, Second Edition)
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Resistant Islands - Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States (Paperback, Second Edition)
Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
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Now in a thoroughly updated edition, 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 base is a
hot-button issue in Japan and has become more widely known in the
wake of Japan's 2011 natural disasters and the US military role in
emergency relief. Okinawa rejects the base-dominated role allocated
it by the US and Japanese governments under which priority attaches
to its military functions, as a kind of stationary aircraft
carrier. The result has been to throw US-Japan relations into
crisis, bringing down one prime minister who tried to stop
construction of yet another base on the island and threatening the
incumbent if he is unable to deliver Okinawan approval of the new
base. Okinawa thus has become a template for reassessing the
troubled US-Japan relationship-indeed, the geopolitics of the US
empire of bases in the Pacific.
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