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, N.Y
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 and index.
Table of contents: title: Ryukyuan kingdom and indigenous religion of Ryukyu Islands; title: Satsuma conquest and Confucian world view; title: Japanese annexation; title: Battle of Okinawa; title: American colony: protests over land seizures; title: Reversion to Japan; title: Post-reversion Okinawa and 1995 rape; title: Itokazu Keiko and lessons of war; title: Chibana Shoichi as "unpatriotic" man "ringing the bell"; title: Arasaki Moriteru: philosopher who disappoints his family; title: Oshiro Minoru: crippled minister; title: Taira Osamu: minister who grasped steering wheel; title: Ota Masahide, Okinawa's professor governor; title: Takazato Suzuyo and military's abuse of women.