Week's Theme: Okinawa & Occupation
Tuesday: "Sacrificed Stone": Okinawa and the War
American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: 12-22; 39-52
Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas: 1-31; "The Cocktail Party"
Thursday: "Prostituted Daughter": Okinawa and the Peace
Readings: OJO, "A base town in the literary imagination" (53-69)
Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas, "Child of Okinawa"

Documents:
Various on "The Contemporary Okinawa Website" (by John Purves)

See especially:
"Emperor of Japan's Opinion Concerning the Future of the Ryukyu Islands"
The San Francisco Peace Treaty
John Foster Dulles on the Status of Okinawa
The Okinawa Reversion Agreement

 

Task: Prepare to discuss the two Okinawan stories

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