The essays in this volume commemorate the diasporic experiences of Okinawans within the geopolitical context of East Asia.
Ronald Y. Nakasone, Buddhist cleric and scholar, teaches at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and has lectured at Ryukoku University, Japan, and Mahidol University, Thailand
Note on Transliteration and Conventions
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Preface
xi
Part I Introduction
``An Impossible Possibility''
3
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Ronald Y. Nakasone
Theorizing on the Okinawan Diaspora
26
(18)
Robert K. Arakaki
Okinawa in the Matrix of Pacific Ocean Culture
44
(13)
Hokama Shuzen
Part II Journeys
The ``Japanese'' of Micronesia: Okinawans in the Nan'yo Islands
57
(14)
Tomiyama Ichiro
``The Other Japanese'': Okinawan Immigrants to the Philippines, 1903-1941
71
(19)
Edith M. Kaneshiro
Japanese Latin American Internment from an Okinawan Perspective
90
(22)
Wesley Ueunten
Colonialism and Nationalism: The View from Okinawa
112
(8)
Nomura Koya
Eissa: Identities and Dances of Okinawan Diasporic Experiences
120
(10)
Shirota Chika
Hawai`i Uchinachu and Okinawa: Uchinanchu Spirit and the Formation of a Transnational Identity
130
(12)
Arakaki Makoto
Agari-umaai: An Okinawan Pilgrimage
142
(15)
Ronald Y. Nakasone
Appendix
157
(6)
Glossary
163
(6)
References
169
(22)
List of Contributors
191
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Index
195
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