Okinawa Under Occupation

Miyume Tanji (Ph.D. in politics) is an honorary lecturer at the Australian National University. Miyume has written about social movements in Okinawa, and is the author of ‘Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa’ (2006). Miyume has been a guest editor of Amerasia Journal’s special issue on ‘Indigenous Asias’ (volume 41, 2015), and contributed articles to academic journals such as Critical Asian Studies, Japan Focus: the Asia-Pacific Journal, and Asian Studies Review. Daniel Broudy is Chair of the Graduate School of Intercultural Communication and Professor of Rhetoric and Applied Linguistics at Okinawa Christian University, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in applied psycholinguistics from Deakin University and an M.A. in rhetoric from Norwich University. His research activities include analysis of textual and symbolic representations of power that dominate post-industrial culture.

“Through a thoughtful presentation of post-WWII history and contemporary events, the authors describe and critically examine ongoing issues of the U.S. military base presence in Okinawa from an original perspective and within a novel analytical framework. The questions that arise from their wide-ranging in-depth analysis, however, are directed toward us Okinawans and should engender serious engagement.” (Hideki Yoshika, Synaesthesia: Communication across Cultures, 2018)

• Introduction.- Part I. Theories of Development and Destruction.- PART II. Practices and Analyses.- Part III. Interviews: Reflections on Free Speech Past and Present.- Part IV. Resistance Movements: Reflections and Analysis.- Conclusion.