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Author:

McCormack, Gavan.

Title:

Resistant islands : Okinawa confronts Japan and the United States / Gavan McCormack and Satoko Oka Norimatsu.

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiii, 297 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Okinawa-ken (Japan)--History.
Okinawa-ken (Japan)--Colonization.
United States--History.--Okinawa-ken--Okinawa-ken--History.
Military bases, American--Okinawa-ken--Okinawa-ken--History.
Okinawa-ken (Japan)--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Okinawa-ken (Japan)
Japan--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Japan.

Other Authors:

Norimatsu, Satoko Oka, 1965-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Ryukyu/Okinawa : from disposal to resistance -- War, memory, and commemoration -- Japan's American embrace and the "partnership" for peace and prosperity -- Okinawa : separation and reversion -- Henoko : the unwanted base -- The Hatoyama revolt -- Post-cold war : elections and democracy -- Environment : the "non-assessment" -- "Deepening" the alliance : the Kan agenda -- "Deepening" the alliance : Washington agendas -- Senkaku/Diaoyu : Okinawa as militarized outpost or as bridge of nations? -- Turning history around : history as lived experience -- Prospect.

Series:

Asia/Pacific/perspectives

ISBN:

144221564X (electronic)
9781442215641 (electronic)
1442215623 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442215627 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)774500481

LCCN:

2012008989

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)