Akemi Johnson
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. base in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there."
Okinawa, at the southern end of the Japanese archipelago, is host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. Tensions are often exacerbated by the volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s. Johnson focuses...