TY - BOOK ID - 78073831 TI - Beachheads : war, peace, and tourism in postwar Okinawa PY - 2016 SN - 128067993X 9786613656865 1442215836 9781442215832 9781442215825 1442215828 144221581X 9781442215818 PB - Lanham Rowman & Littlefield DB - UniCat KW - Tourism KW - Reconstruction (1939-1951) KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Postwar reconstruction KW - Holiday industry KW - Operators, Tour (Industry) KW - Tour operators (Industry) KW - Tourism industry KW - Tourism operators (Industry) KW - Tourist industry KW - Tourist trade KW - Tourist traffic KW - Travel industry KW - Visitor industry KW - Service industries KW - National tourism organizations KW - Travel KW - History KW - Government policy KW - Reconstruction KW - Economic aspects KW - Okinawa Island (Japan) KW - Ryukyu Islands KW - J3479 KW - J4190.79 KW - Japan: Geography and local history -- Okinawa prefecture and Ryūkyū region (Seinan) KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- local communities and culture -- Okinawa prefecture and Ryūkyū region (Seinan) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78073831 AB - This original and fresh book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semicolonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious current political affairs has reshaped itself into a resort destination. He traces cultural, political, social, and economic issues of Okinawa's postwar experience to the present through the innovative frame of tourism development-both as it has been i ER -