Christian, Buddhist, and Confucian protests against military bases in Okinawa
Subtitle: a study of seven religious leaders
By: William Walter Hunt III ; with a preface by Ronald Y. Nakasone.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780773450813
Subjects: Religious biography -- Japan -- Okinawa-ken.; Protest movements -- Japan -- Okinawa-ken.; Military bases, American -- Japan -- Okinawa-ken.; Okinawa-ken (Japan) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.
Table of contents: value: Ryukyuan kingdom and indigenous religion of Ryukyu Islands; value: Satsuma conquest and Confucian world view; value: Japanese annexation; value: Battle of Okinawa; value: American colony: protests over land seizures; value: Reversion to Japan; value: Post-reversion Okinawa and 1995 rape; value: Itokazu Keiko and lessons of war; value: Chibana Shoichi as "unpatriotic" man "ringing the bell"; value: Arasaki Moriteru: philosopher who disappoints his family; value: Oshiro Minoru: crippled minister; value: Taira Osamu: minister who grasped steering wheel; value: Ota Masahide, Okinawa's professor governor; value: Takazato Suzuyo and military's abuse of women.