40 years since reversion
Subtitle: negotiating the Okinawan difference in Japan today
By: edited by Ina Hein and Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer
Series: Beiträge zur Japanologie -- Band 44; Beiträge zur Japanologie -- Bd. 44
Publisher: Department of East Asian Studies/Japanese Studies, University of Vienna
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Vienna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9783900362270
Subjects: History; Civilization; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Other titles: Forty years since reversion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Negotiating the Okinawan difference in Japan today / -- Ina Hein and Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer; title: History and politics --; title: "Ryūkyū shobun" : a difficult chapter in Okinawan history  -- Stanislaw Meyer; title: Setting out to imagine a new community : Okinawa's reversion to Japan  -- Gabriele Vogt; title: Social movements in Okinawa since 1945 : was the reversion a threshold in the development of civil society?  -- Beata Bochorodyz; title: Message from Okinawa I  -- Asato Eiko; title: Language --; title: Language or dialect? The place of the Ryukyuan varieties in the Japonic language family  -- Patrick Heinrich; title: Japanese as a foreign language? The introduction of the Japanese language in Okinawan primary schools  -- Kawasaki Sayaka; title: Retrieving a Moribund language : Nikolay A. Nevskiy and his Miyakoan dictionary in Ryukyuan lexicology and in scholarship  -- Aleksandra Jarosz and Alfred F. Majewicz; title: Representations and images --; title: Deigo and Shureimon : the visual representation of Ryukyu on Ryukyuan stamps (1948-1972) compared to that of Okinawa on Japanese stamps (1972-2012) and Japanese regional stamps (1989-2012) / Sepp Linhart --; title: Writing back : literature from Okinawa : a postcolonial perspective  -- Ina Hein; title: Shamanism as a symbol for Okinawan-ness : identity politics in Japanese films and literature depicting Okinawa  -- Shiotsuki Ryoko; title: Message from Okinawa II  -- Ishikawa Mao; title: Changes and transformations --; title: Development and evolution of ancestor worship in Okinawa : taking account of the state system in folk culture studies / Akamine Masanobu --; title: From Hawaii to Okinawa : the expansion of the paradise image and tourism beyond time and place -- Tada Osamu-- Contributors.