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Okinawa-ken (Japan) --- Japan --- Okinawa-ken (Japan) --- History. --- History --- Politics and government.

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Japan --- Okinawa Island (Japan) --- Ryukyu Islands --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- J4672.79 --- J4190.79 --- J3479 --- Japan: Politics and law -- local politics and government -- Okinawa prefecture and Ryūkyū region (Seinan) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- local communities and culture -- Okinawa prefecture and Ryūkyū region (Seinan) --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Okinawa prefecture and Ryūkyū region (Seinan)

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This study explores the planning considerations of the United States military in formulating and implementing policy for the occupation of Okinawa from April 1945 to July 1946. American soldiers, Marines, and sailors on Okinawa encountered not only a Japanese enemy, but a large local population.

Military government --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Japan --- Okinawa Island (Japan) --- History --- Civilization --- Race relations. --- Ethnic relations.

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Okinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic state. Suspended in a state of exception, Okinawans have never been officially classified as colonial subjects of the Japanese empire or the United States, nor have they ever been treated as equal citizens of Japan. As a result, they live amid one of the densest concentrations of U.S. military bases in the world. By bringing Foucauldian biopolitics into conversation with Japanese Marxian theorizations of capitalism, Alegal uncovers Japan’s determination to protect its middle class from the racialized sexual contact around its mainland bases by displacing them onto Okinawa, while simultaneously upholding Okinawa as a symbol of the infringement of Japanese sovereignty figured in terms of a patriarchal monoethnic state. This symbolism, however, has provoked ambivalence within Okinawa. In base towns that facilitated encounters between G.I.s and Okinawan women, the racial politics of the United States collided with the postcolonial politics of the Asia Pacific. Through close readings of poetry, reportage, film, and memoir on base-town life since 1945, Shimabuku traces a continuing failure to “become Japanese.” What she discerns instead is a complex politics surrounding sex work, tipping with volatility along the razor’s edge between insurgency and collaboration. At stake in sovereign power’s attempt to secure Okinawa as a military fortress was the need to contain alegality itself—that is, a life force irreducible to the legal order. If biopolitics is the state’s attempt to monopolize life, then Alegal is a story about how borderland actors reclaimed the power of life for themselves. In addition to scholars of Japan and Okinawa, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonialism, militarism, mixed-race studies, gender and sexuality, or the production of sovereignty in the modern world.

Miscegenation --- Military bases, American --- Soldiers --- Biopolitics --- History --- Social aspects --- Sexual behavior --- Okinawa-shi (Japan) --- Political behavior --- Human behavior --- Political science --- Sociobiology --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- American military bases --- Hybridity of races --- Racial amalgamation --- Racial crossing --- Race relations --- Racially mixed people --- Okinawa City (Japan) --- Okinawa, Japan --- Koza-shi (Japan) --- Misato-son (Okinawa-ken, Japan) --- Japanese Marxism. --- Japanese New Left. --- Japanese proletarian literature. --- Okinawa. --- U.S. military prostitution. --- biopolitics. --- lumpenproletariat. --- mixed-race studies. --- postcolonial Japanese studies. --- transpacific studies.

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Transpacific Antiracism introduces the dynamic process out of which social movements in Black America, Japan, and Okinawa formed Afro-Asian solidarities against the practice of white supremacy in the twentieth century. Yuichiro Onishi argues that in the context of forging Afro-Asian solidarities, race emerged as a political category of struggle with a distinct moral quality and vitality.This book explores the work of Black intellectual-activists of the first half of the twentieth century, including Hubert Harrison and W. E. B. Du Bois, that took a pro-Japan stance to articulate the connection between local and global dimensions of antiracism. Turning to two places rarely seen as a part of the Black experience, Japan and Okinawa, the book also presents the accounts of a group of Japanese scholars shaping the Black studies movement in post-surrender Japan and multiracial coalition-building in U.S.-occupied Okinawa during the height of the Vietnam War which brought together local activists, peace activists, and antiracist and antiwar GIs. Together these cases of Afro-Asian solidarity make known political discourses and projects that reworked the concept of race to become a wellspring of aspiration for a new society.

African Americans --- Anti-racism --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Antiracism --- Social justice --- Multiculturalism --- Racism --- Study and teaching --- History --- Foreign public opinion, Japanese. --- Relations with Japanese --- Race identity --- Du Bois, W. E. B. --- Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt --- Du Bois, W. E. --- Di︠u︡bua, Uilʹi︠a︡m Ėdvard Burgkhardt, --- Di︠u︡bua, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, --- DuBois, W. E. B. --- Du Bois, William, --- Du Bois, W. B. --- Political and social views. --- Okinawa-shi (Japan) --- Okinawa City (Japan) --- Okinawa, Japan --- Koza-shi (Japan) --- Misato-son (Okinawa-ken, Japan) --- Race relations --- Black people