Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-nr4z6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-08T05:37:41.931Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Rethinking Okinawa and Okinawan Studies: Three Perspectives - 40 Years since Reversion: Negotiating the Okinawan Difference in Japan Today. Edited by Ina Hein and Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer . Vienna: Department of East Asian Studies/Japanese Studies, University of Vienna, 2015. 277 pp. ISBN: 9783900362270 (paper). - Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000. By Tze May Loo . Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014. xii, 209 pp. ISBN: 9780739182482 (cloth, also available as e-book). - The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community. By Wendy Matsumura . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. xiii, 273 pp. ISBN: 9780822357889 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Review products

40 Years since Reversion: Negotiating the Okinawan Difference in Japan Today. Edited by Ina Hein and Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer . Vienna: Department of East Asian Studies/Japanese Studies, University of Vienna, 2015. 277 pp. ISBN: 9783900362270 (paper).
Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000. By Tze May Loo . Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014. xii, 209 pp. ISBN: 9780739182482 (cloth, also available as e-book).
The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community. By Wendy Matsumura . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. xiii, 273 pp. ISBN: 9780822357889 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2017

Mire Koikari
Mire Koikari*
Affiliation:
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
*
mire@hawaii.edu
Get access

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Reviews—Japan
Information
The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 76 , Issue 3 , August 2017 , pp. 795 - 801
Copyright
Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 The entire text of Kushi's apology is reprinted in Inafuku-Katsukata, Keiko, Okinawa joseigaku kotohajime [Women's studies in Okinawa] (Tokyo: Shinjuku shobo, 2006), 128–29Google Scholar. Translation is the author's, p. 129.

2 For an insightful analysis of Kushi Fusako, see ibid. , chap. 4, “Maboroshi no josei sakka, Kushi Fusako” [Legendary female writer, Kushi Fusako], pp. 101–55.