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Beacheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) - Softcover

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Figal, Gerald

 
9781442215825: Beacheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1442215828 ISBN 13: 9781442215825
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This original and fresh book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semicolonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious current political affairs has reshaped itself into a resort destination. He traces cultural, political, social, and economic issues of Okinawa's postwar experience to the present through the innovative frame of tourism development-both as it has been imagined and, in some cases, realized. Creatively, accessibly, and eloquently written, this compelling work highlights a set of islands that represent key issues facing contemporary Japan.

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Gerald Figal is professor of history and Japanese cultural studies at Vanderbilt University.

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Verlag
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1442215828
ISBN 13 
9781442215825
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
276
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