"Nearly 70 years ago the United States took over the Japanese island of
Okinawa after one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. More than
200,000 people died, mostly Japanese civilians. Today the United States
operates 34 bases on the island and is planning to build a new
state-of-the-art Marine base, despite mass protests. A multi-decade
movement of Okinawa residents has pushed for ousting U.S. forces off the
island, citing environmental concerns and sexual assaults by U.S.
soldiers on local residents. Broadcasting from Tokyo, we are joined by
two guests: Kozue Akibayashi, a professor and activist in Japan with the
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Women’s
International Network Against Militarism; and John Junkerman, a
documentary filmmaker currently working on a film about U.S. military
bases in Okinawa."
View Video and read more on Democracy Now:
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/16/okinawas_revolt_decades_of_rape_environmental
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Constancy & Change: The Movement to Demilitarize Okinawa - from the 1950s to the 21st Century
Center for Okinawan Studies Lecture Series
"Constancy & Change: The Movement to Demilitarize Okinawa - from
the 1950s to the 21st Century"
Two doctoral students at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa will make presentations on sixty-five years of diverse resistance by the movement to demilitarize Okinawa.
Mami Hayashi's presentation, "Military Bases in Okinawa: A Pressure for Migration," covers the contrast between pre-war and postwar emigration and how a desire to defuse domestic dissent led the pre-Reversion U.S. military and the U.S.-controlled Ryukyu Government to encourage migration from
Okinawa.
Rinda Yamashiro's presentation, "Women's Rights Perspective: A New Direction in the Anti-U.S. Base Movement in Okinawa," draws on empirical research to articulate how the contemporary Okinawan women have engaged in resistance against U.S. military bases.
Presenters:
Mami Hayashi (Ph.D. Student, American Studies)
Rinda Yamashiro (Ph.D. Student, Sociology)
Discussant:
Vincent Pollard (Lecturer, Asian Studies)
Vincent Pollard teaches in the Asian Studies Program and conducts research on anti-bases movements.
Date:
January 21, 2010 (Thursday)
Time:
3:00-4:30 pm
Location:
Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
Event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Center for Okinawan Studies, tel. 956-0902 /
956-5754
For disability access, please contact the Center for Okinawan Studies.
University of Hawai'i at M?noa
An Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Institution
website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~pollard/conference.html
"Constancy & Change: The Movement to Demilitarize Okinawa - from
the 1950s to the 21st Century"
Two doctoral students at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa will make presentations on sixty-five years of diverse resistance by the movement to demilitarize Okinawa.
Mami Hayashi's presentation, "Military Bases in Okinawa: A Pressure for Migration," covers the contrast between pre-war and postwar emigration and how a desire to defuse domestic dissent led the pre-Reversion U.S. military and the U.S.-controlled Ryukyu Government to encourage migration from
Okinawa.
Rinda Yamashiro's presentation, "Women's Rights Perspective: A New Direction in the Anti-U.S. Base Movement in Okinawa," draws on empirical research to articulate how the contemporary Okinawan women have engaged in resistance against U.S. military bases.
Presenters:
Mami Hayashi (Ph.D. Student, American Studies)
Rinda Yamashiro (Ph.D. Student, Sociology)
Discussant:
Vincent Pollard (Lecturer, Asian Studies)
Vincent Pollard teaches in the Asian Studies Program and conducts research on anti-bases movements.
Date:
January 21, 2010 (Thursday)
Time:
3:00-4:30 pm
Location:
Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
Event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Center for Okinawan Studies, tel. 956-0902 /
956-5754
For disability access, please contact the Center for Okinawan Studies.
University of Hawai'i at M?noa
An Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Institution
website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~pollard/conference.html
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