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Alegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Note on Translations and Romanizations xvii
List of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations xix
Introduction 1
1. Japan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims 15
2. Okinawa, 1945–1952: Allegories of Becoming 38
3. Okinawa, 1952–1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness 65
4. Okinawa, 1958–1972: The Subaltern Speaks 88
5. Okinawa, 1972–1995: Life That Matters 124
Conclusion 143
Acknowledgments 147
Notes 149
Selected Bibliography 195
Index 211

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 25/12/2018
      ISBN13: 9780823282654, 978-0823282654
      ISBN10: 0823282651
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Alegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration.

      Table of Contents

      Preface ix
      Note on Translations and Romanizations xvii
      List of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations xix
      Introduction 1
      1. Japan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims 15
      2. Okinawa, 1945–1952: Allegories of Becoming 38
      3. Okinawa, 1952–1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness 65
      4. Okinawa, 1958–1972: The Subaltern Speaks 88
      5. Okinawa, 1972–1995: Life That Matters 124
      Conclusion 143
      Acknowledgments 147
      Notes 149
      Selected Bibliography 195
      Index 211

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