Women of Okinawa
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: Ruth Ann Keyso
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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"Three of the women were born before the Pacific War, and their first memories of Americans are of troops coming ashore with bayonets fixed. A second group, now
Night in the American Village
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Akemi Johnson
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-18 - Publisher: The New Press

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"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 f
Women of the Sacred Groves
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Susan Starr Sered
Categories: Okinawa-ken (Japan)
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Although most historical and contemporary religions are governed by men, there are, scattered throughout the world, a handful of well-documented religions led b
Speak, Okinawa
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Elizabeth Miki Brina
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-23 - Publisher: Vintage

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A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents—her mother an Okinawa
Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration
Language: en
Pages: 112
Authors: Johanna O. Zulueta
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-24 - Publisher: Routledge

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The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed