Description: This book is a very readable narrative history of Okinawans in Japan, the first English-language book to cover that territory. Based on interviews, memoirs and other literature, oral histories, and survey responses, and engaging with important elements of the huge body of Japanese scholarship on Okinawa, this book offers a historical narrative interwoven with first-person accounts either translated or collected by the author.
Brief description: Steve Rabson is professor emeritus of East Asian studies at Brown University.
Review Quotes: With its clear organization, concise arguments, and highly readable translations, this book would fit easily in an undergraduate curriculum to East Asian societies. . . . The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan is an important contribution to an unfairly neglected aspect of Japanese history.--Christopher T. Nelson "Monumenta Nipponica"