By Gavan McCormack, Satoko Oka Norimatsu
ISBN-10: 1442215623
ISBN-13: 9781442215627
Resistant Islands deals a accomplished evaluation of Okinawan heritage over part a millennium from the Ryukyu nation to the current, focusing specially at the colonization via Japan, the islands' disastrous destiny in the course of international struggle II, and their next and carrying on with subordination to US army function.
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78 The Yaeyama Islands are divided into three school board jurisdictions— Ishigaki, Taketomi, and Yonaguni—with a combined population of only about 55,000, about 4 percent of Okinawa’s total. Yet the textbook selection process on those islands was headline news, the subject of numerous articles and editorials for weeks in the two major Okinawan newspapers. Even mainland media paid attention. It was the first time that a Tsukurukai textbook was adopted by an Okinawan school board. The Tsukuru-kaiaffiliated history textbooks made no mention of the Japanese military’s involvement in the mass suicides.
In the view of one Okinawan critic, This is not just a matter of history revisionism; it is closely related to Japanese defense policy . . indb 35 6/21/12 8:34 AM 36 Chapter 2 Right after the Self-Defense Force was established in 1954, a cabinet Intelligence and Research Office publication addressed the subject of “People’s Defense Consciousness,” saying, If the memory of wartime victimization in people becomes a peace ideology (heiwa shiso), that will thwart cultivation of people’s defense consciousness.
58 “The war is far from over in Okinawa,” says Ota. ”59 It is a sentiment widely shared. The islanders’ resistance against US military bases is inseparable from their experience of the indescribable horrors of the war. Not only do they not want to see another war in Okinawa, many feel responsible for indirectly participating in US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since their land is being used for military bases. The poem on the tapestry hung inside the Henoko sit-in tent reads as follows. indb 30 6/21/12 8:34 AM War, Memory, and Commemoration 31 At the end of the Battle of Okinawa, Mountains were burned.
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