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The first Okinawan immigrants arrived in Honolulu in January 1900
to work as contract laborers on Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Over
time Okinawans would continue migrating east to the continental
U.S., Canada, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Cuba,
Paraguay, New Caledonia, and the islands of Micronesia. The essays
in this volume commemorate these diasporic experiences within the
geopolitical context of East Asia. Using primary sources and oral
history, individual contributors examine how Okinawan identity was
constructed in the various countries to which. Okinawans migrated,
and how their experiences were shaped by the Japanese
nation-building project and by globalization. Essays explore the
return to Okinawan sovereignty, or what Nobel Laureate Oe Kenzaburo
called an "impossible possibility," and the role of the Okinawan
labor diaspora in Japan's imperial expansion into the Philippines
and Micronesia.
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