Using primary sources and oral history, individual contributors examine how Okinawan identity was constructed in the various countries to which Okinawans migrated, and how their experiences were shaped by the Japanese nation-building project and by globalization. Essays explore the return to Okinawan Sovereignty, or what Nobel Laureate Oe Kenzaburo called an qimpossible possibility, q and the role of the Okinawan labor diaspora in Japan's imperial expansion into the Philippines and Micronesia. --Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan Taku Suzuki ... government agencies (e.g., JICA and the consulate-general) and Nikkei-owned small businesses, (e.g., travel agencies and auto repair shops) in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
Title | : | Embodying Belonging |
Author | : | Taku Suzuki |
Publisher | : | University of Hawaii Press - 2010-01-01 |
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