Okinawan Diaspora / / ed. by Ronald Y. Nakasone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arakaki, Robert K.,; Chika, Shirota,; Ichirō, Tomiyama,; Kaneshiro, Edith M.,; Kōya, Nomura,; Makoto, Arakaki,; Nakasone, Ronald Y.,; ShBzen, Hokama,; Ueunten, Wesley,
• HerausgeberIn: Nakasone, Ronald Y.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)

The first Okinawan immigrants arrived in Honolulu in January 1900 to work as contract laborers on Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Over time Okinawans would continue migrating east to the continental U.S., Canada, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Cuba, Paraguay, New Caledonia, and the islands of Micronesia. The essays in this volume commemorate these diasporic experiences within the geopolitical context of East Asia. 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 "impossible possibility," and the role of the Okinawan labor diaspora in Japan's imperial expansion into the Philippines and Micronesia. Contributors: Arakaki Makoto, Robert K. Arakaki, Hokama Shuzen, Edith M. Kaneshiro, Ronald Y. Nakasone, Nomura Koya, Shirota Chika, Tomiyama Ichiro, Wesley Ueunten.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration and Conventions -- Preface -- Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. "An Impossible Possibility" -- Chapter 2. Theorizing on the Okinawan Diaspora -- Chapter 3. Okinawa in the Matrix of Pacific Ocean Culture -- Part II Journeys -- Chapter 4. The "Japanese" of Micronesia: Okinawans in the Nan'yō Islands -- Chapter 5. "The Other Japanese": Okinawan Immigrants to the Philippines, 1903 -1941 -- Chapter 6. Japanese Latin American Internment from an Okinawan Perspective -- Chapter 7. Colonialism and Nationalism: The View from Okinawa -- Chapter 8. Eissa: Identities and Dances of Okinawan Diasporic Experiences -- Chapter 9. Hawai'i Uchinanchu and Okinawa: Uchinanchu Spirit and the Formation of a Transnational Identity -- Chapter 10. Agari-umaai: An Okinawan Pilgrimage -- Appendix -- Glossary -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index