From Okinawa to the Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Okinawa to the Americas write by Hana Yamagawa. This book was released on 2010-10-11. From Okinawa to the Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1889 and 1940 more than 40,000 Okinawan contract laborers emigrated to plantations in Hawaii, Brazil, the Philippines, and Peru. In 1912 seventeen-year-old Hana Kaneshi accompanied her husband and brother to South America and dreamed of returning home in two years’ time a wealthy young woman. Edited by her daughter Akiko, Hana’s richly detailed memoir is a rare, first-hand account of the life of a female Okinawan immigrant in the New World. It spans nearly a century, from Hana’s early life in a small village not long after the Ryukyu Kingdom’s annexation to Japan; to a sugar plantation in Peru and its capital, Lima; to her dangerous trek through Mexico and the California desert to enter the U.S. and start a new life, this time in the Imperial Valley and finally Los Angeles. Hana’s story comes full circle when she returns briefly, after forty-seven years, to Okinawa during the postwar American Occupation. From Okinawa to the Americas will appeal to not only students of Asian American and disapora studies, but also those seeking to understand the complexity of Okinawan culture and the networks of family relationships in Okinawa and in its overseas immigrant communities.
Night in the American Village
Night in the American Village - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Night in the American Village write by Akemi Johnson. This book was released on 2019-06-18. Night in the American Village available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip, and sexy. I admire it for its ferocity, style, and vigor. A wonderful book." —Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades—with tensions exacerbated by the often volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s. But the situation is more complex than it seems. In Night in the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson takes readers deep into the "border towns" surrounding the bases—a world where cultural and political fault lines compel individuals, both Japanese and American, to continually renegotiate their own identities. Focusing on the women there, she follows the complex fallout of the murder of an Okinawan woman by an ex–U.S. serviceman in 2016 and speaks to protesters, to women who date and marry American men and groups that help them when problems arise, and to Okinawans whose family members survived World War II. Thought-provoking and timely, Night in the American Village is a vivid look at the enduring wounds of U.S.-Japanese history and the cultural and sexual politics of the American military empire.
History of the Okinawans in North America
History of the Okinawans in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of the Okinawans in North America write by Hokubei Okinawa Kurabu. This book was released on 1988. History of the Okinawans in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book is an English language version of Okinawan history spanning over ninety years of pioneer struggles"--Foreword to the English ed.
The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa
The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa write by Michael S. Molasky. This book was released on 2005-08-12. The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do the Japanese and Okinawans remember Occupation? How is memory constructed and transmitted? Michael Molasky explores these questions through careful, sensitive readings of literature from mainland Japan and Okinawa. This book sheds light on difficult issues of war, violence, prostitution, colonialism and post-colonialism in the context of the Occupations of Japan and Okinawa.
Speak, Okinawa
Speak, Okinawa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speak, Okinawa write by Elizabeth Miki Brina. This book was released on 2021-02-23. Speak, Okinawa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents—her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran—and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their only daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood and adolescence. Yet even though she felt almost no connection to her mother's distant home, she also felt out of place among her peers. Decades later, Elizabeth comes to recognize the shame and self-loathing that haunt both her and her mother, and attempts a form of reconciliation, not only to come to terms with the embattled dynamics of her family but also to reckon with the injustices that reverberate throughout the history of Okinawa and its people. Clear-eyed and profoundly humane, Speak, Okinawa is a startling accomplishment—a heartfelt exploration of identity, inheritance, forgiveness, and what it means to be an American.
