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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 30 April 2026
- ISBN 9781538188392
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 230x152x20 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 b&w images, 2 maps 700
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Short description:
In this compelling history of Japan's southernmost prefecture, Okinawa, award-winning journalist, Jon Mitchell, illustrates the long history of indigenous Okinawans' subjugation by Japan and the United States, and how they have responded with one of the most resilient pacifist movements on the planet.
MoreLong description:
In this compelling history, award-winning journalist, Jon Mitchell, traces how the islands of Okinawa have been annexed by Japan, occupied by the United States and now menaced by China. In response, Okinawans have developed one of the world's most resilient - yet overlooked - pacifist movements.
Once a wealthy kingdom, Okinawa was seized by Japan in the late-19th century and, after World War II, abandoned to US colonial rule. For twenty-seven years, residents were denied civil and labor rights, but their non-violent resistance grew so strong that, in 1972, they forced the return of the islands to Japanese control.
Today, thirty-one US bases dominate a land mass smaller than Rhode Island and Okinawans remain Japan's poorest people. Tensions are rising as China questions Japan's control of Okinawa and fires missiles into nearby seas. Angry at being pawns in the play of greater powers, islanders resist through mass protests, music, comedy and art. Okinawa offers an inspirational model of grassroots democracy and civic engagement for the rest of Japan and beyond.
Table of Contents:
Foreword: Challenging the Projects of Empires
An Introduction
1. The Ryukyu Kingdom: A Bridge of Nations
2. Disposal, Discrimination, and Diaspora
3. The Storm of Iron
4. Forgotten Island
5. Showcases of Democracy
6. The Vietnam War in Okinawa
7. Reversion
8. Broken Promises
9. Relieving the Burden
10. All Okinawa vs. Japan and the United States
11. Islands of Peace?
Coda: So Why Are We Really in Okinawa?
