Resistant Islands

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  • Resistant Islands Book Detail

  • Author : Gavan McCormack
  • Release Date : 2018-03-08
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 351
  • ISBN 13 : 1538115565
  • File Size : 26,26 MB

Resistant Islands by Gavan McCormack PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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