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Democracy Betrayed: Okinawa Under U.S. Occupation, Kensei Yoshida
Democracy Betrayed: Okinawa Under U.S. Occupation, Kensei Yoshida
East Asian Studies Press
Kensei Yoshida's Democracy Betrayed: The U.S. Occupation of Okinawa is easily the best history, analysis, and commentary we have on the United States's domination from 1945 to 1972 over the unlucky people of Okinawa. It is written from an Okinawan perspective. Yoshida is of course aware that when the United States's formal dominion over Okinawa ended in 1972 and it condoned a pro forma "reversion" of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty, the semicolonial conditions he describes did not end. In fact, they continued and persist to the present day in an often exacerbated form. For the past fifty-six years, and with …