Resistant Islands

Name: Resistant Islands
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Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States

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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.

Author Biography:

Gavan McCormack is emeritus professor at the Australian National University. Satoko Oka Norimatsu is an editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.

Release date NZ

April 12th, 2018

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Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Second Edition

Illustrations

Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs

Pages

350

Series

Asia/Pacific/Perspectives

Dimensions

156x238x25

ISBN-13

9781538115572

Product ID

27607423

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