The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa Book

	Preface and acknowledgements
	Introduction: Burned-out ruins and barbed-wire fences	1
	The occupation of Japan as history	5
	The occupation in mainland Japanese literature and criticism	8
	Okinawa: From premodern kingdom to Japanese prefecture	12
	The Battle of Okinawa and the American occupation (1945-72)	15
	Chapter summaries	22
1	Roads to no-man's land	25
	Language, landscape, and gender in "The American School"	30
	Gender, history, and the construction of victimhood in The Cocktail Party	39
	Fact and fiction	49
2	A base town in the literary imagination	53
	An Okinawan Boy	56
	"The Town That Went Pale"	63
	"Children of Mixed Blood" and the remaking of Koza	65
3	A darker shade of difference	70
	Representing blacks in postwar Japan	72
	Race and narrative ambivalence in "Prize Stock"	75
	Reporting truth, imagining motives: "Painting on Black Canvas"	82
	Poetry of protest: Arakawa Akira's "The Colored Race"	93
4	Female floodwalls	103
	The Recreation and Amusement Association	105
	Prostitution after the RAA	108
	Prostitution and the Japanese publishing industry	110
	The Chastity of Japan	115
	Female Floodwall	124
5	Ambivalent allegories	130
	The generational logic of "Guests From Afar"	133
	Prostitution and other honest jobs: "The Only Ones"	143
	Caste and outcasts: "Women of a Base Town"	145
	Marriage, money, and desire in "The Women of Chitose, Hokkaido"	149
6	The occupier within	157
	Reproducing the occupation: "Human Sheep"	159
	Style as story: Narrative technique and memory in "American Hijiki"	167
	Epilogue: Occupation literature in the post-Vietnam era	178
	Okinawan literature since the Vietnam War	178
	Saegusa Kazuko's A Winter's Death	183
	Notes	190
	English-language works cited	222
	Japanese-language works cited	229
	Newspaper articles	238
	Index	239