Volume and Number
Studies on East Asia, Volume 23
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Publication Date
2001
Managing Editor
Edward H. Kaplan
Publisher
Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
City
Bellingham, Washington
Description
Kensei Yoshida's Democracy Betrayed: The U.S. Occupation of Okinawa is easily the best history, analysis, and commentary we have on the United States's domination from 1945 to 1972 over the unlucky people of Okinawa. It is written from an Okinawan perspective. Yoshida is of course aware that when the United States's formal dominion over Okinawa ended in 1972 and it condoned a pro forma "reversion" of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty, the semicolonial conditions he describes did not end. In fact, they continued and persist to the present day in an often exacerbated form. For the past fifty-six years, and with no end in sight, the American military has dominated the territory and 1.3 million people of the islands in total disregard of the values and wishes of the Okinawans themselves.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25710/ktzf-8p94
Publisher (Digital Object)
Resources made available by the Special Collections, Heritage Resources, and Western Libraries, Western Washington University
Type
Text
OCLC Number
48499432
Geographic Coverage
Ryukyu Islands--History--1945-1972; Okinawa Island (Japan)--History--20th century; United States--Foreign relations--Japan--Ryukyu Islands; Ryukyu Islands--Foreign relations--United States
Disciplines
Asian History
Keywords
Okinawa, Okinawa occupation
Document Type
Book
Recommended Citation
Yoshida, Kensei, "Democracy Betrayed: Okinawa Under U.S. Occupation" (2001). East Asian Studies Press. 31.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/easpress/31
Rights
Copyright 2001, the Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Language
English
Format
application/pdf