Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration

Johanna O. Zulueta is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sociology of Toyo University in Japan.

• List of photos Acknowledgements Notes on Japanese words and names 1 War brides’ silent journeys 1.1 War brides as a category of migrants 1.2 Japanese war brides 1.3 Images of war brides in Japan 1.4 War brides in the Global South 1.5 Towards a life-course approach in analysing war bride migration 1.6 Meaningful encounters: notes on methodology 1.7 The book 2 Memories of war and its aftermath: the Battle of Okinawa and the American Occupation 2.1 Katsuko’s memories 2.2 Through a woman’s eyes: the Battle of Okinawa 2.3 When they came: the American Occupation of Okinawa 2.3.1 Marrying the enemy? International marriages during the Occupation 3 Okinawan women’s journey to the Philippines 3.1 The Philippine Okinawan Society 3.2 Crossing the seas to the Philippines 3.3 “Haponesa”: ethnicized identity as stigma 3.3.1 Inheriting the stigma: children of the “Haponesa” 3.4 “We are Issei”: reclaiming an identity 3.5 Issei stories 3.6 Choosing to stay: Okinawan women in the Philippines 3.6.1 Yoko’s story 3.6.2 Taeko’s story 3.6.3 Fusae’s story 3.6.4 Those who remained 4 Homecomings: the return to Okinawa 4.1 Return in later life 4.2 The Issei’s “return”: fulfilling a mother’s obligation 4.3 The Catholic Church in the lives of the Issei 4.4 The question of home 5 Migration and the end-of-life: when death becomes her question 5.1 Death and migration 5.2 Death, religion, and tradition in Okinawa 5.3 Catholic rites and the Issei 5.4 “And to dust you shall return”: perceptions on the end-of-life, home, and return 5.5 Death and the life course 6 War brides and the life course: a conclusion 6.1 Re-locating Okinawa beyond the U.S.-Japan Nexus 6.2 Migration and/in the life course Index