Abstract

At the southern extreme of Japan’s archipelago, deep in the East China Sea, is a string of one hundred and sixty islands and islets: Okinawa. Together they add up to only 0.6 per cent of the land area of Japan, and their 1.4 million inhabitants are little more than one in a hundred of the Japanese population. Yet this remote southernmost prefecture bears fully three-quarters of the concrete and asphalt, razor wire and weaponry with which the United States of America burdens the Japanese people under the terms of the US-Japan Security Treaty. This chapter looks at the Okinawan movement of opposition to the US bases, and in particular the part of women’s activism, in the context of the wider Japanese anti-war, anti-militarist and peace movements.

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