The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have operated for hundreds of years within the island chain that constitutes Japan's southernmost prefecture, Okinawa - another way often called the Ryukyu Islands. Are the folks of Okinawa 'Japanese' or now not 'Japanese'? solutions to this perplexing query are explored during this richly-detailed quantity, written through one in all Japan's premier public intellectuals, ancient sociologist Eiji Oguma. right here, Oguma addresses problems with Okinawan sovereignty and its people's altering ancient, cultural, and linguistic identification, over greater than a hundred and fifty years till its 1972 reversion to jap regulate, following its management by means of the U.S. from the top of the Pacific warfare. (Series: jap Society) [Subject: Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Asian stories, jap reviews, Cultural reviews, background]
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