Rethinking Postwar Okinawa

Hiroko Matsuda is associate professor in the Department of Contemporary Social Studies at Kobe Gakuin University.Pedro Iacobelli is assistant professor in the Institute of History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

• Introduction: Rethinking Postwar Okinawa, Hiroko Matsuda and Pedro IacobelliChapter 1: History as a Mirror of Self: A Note on Post-war Okinawan Historiography, Hidekazu SensuiChapter 2: Nursing the U.S. Occupation: Okinawan Public Health Nurses in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa, Asako MasubuchiChapter 3: The Occupying Other: Third-Country Nationals and the U.S. Bases in Okinawa, Johanna O. ZuluetaChapter 4: Reversion-Era Proposals for Okinawan Regional Autonomy, Ryan Masaaki YokotaChapter 5: Beyond Minority History: Okinawa Korea People’s Solidarity and Internationalization of the Okinawa Struggle, Shinnosuke TakahashiChapter 6: Fault Lines of Occupation, Limits of Hybridity: Race, Class and Transnationalism in Okinawa and Japan, Ayako TakamoriChapter 7: Champuru Text: Decolonial Okinawan Writing, Ariko S. IkeharaChapter 8: The Black Pacific through Okinawan Eyes: Photographer Mao Ishikawa’s “Hot Days in Camp Hansen!!” and “Life in Philly,” Laura Kina

Rethinking Postwar Okinawa views familiar issues from different angles and challenges the paradigms usually associated with them. . . . The advantage of this collection is its innovative analyses of several issues confronting Okinawans since World War II.