By Gavan McCormack,Satoko Oka Norimatsu
ISBN-10: 1442215631
ISBN-13: 9781442215634
ISBN-10: 1538115573
ISBN-13: 9781538115572
Adopting a people-centered view of Japan’s submit chilly battle heritage and the US-Japan courting, the authors concentrate on the fifteen-year Okinawan fight to safe the go back of Futenma Marine Corps Air Station, positioned in the midst of a bustling residential region, from US to Okinawan keep an eye on. in addition they spotlight the Okinawan resistance to the USA and eastern governments’ plan to construct a alternative new base at Henoko, at the environmentally delicate northeastern shore of Okinawa. 40 years after Okinawa's belated "return" to Japan from direct US rule, its humans reject the continued army position assigned their islands, below which they're required to proceed to connect precedence to US approach.
In a continual and deepening resistance with no precedent in Japan's glossy historical past, a peripheral and oppressed quarter stands up opposed to the significant govt and its worldwide superpower best friend. One contemporary major minister who attempted to fulfill key Okinawan calls for used to be introduced down by means of bureaucratic and political strain from Tokyo and Washington. His successors fight in useless to discover a formulation that might let them meet US calls for but in addition assuage Okinawan anger. Okinawa turns into a beacon of citizen democracy as its struggles elevate key matters approximately renowned sovereignty, democracy and human rights, and the way forward for Japan and the Asia-Pacific.
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