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Matthew R. Augustine, From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony: Koreans and Okinawans in the Resettlement of Northeast Asia, University of Hawai'i Press, 2023.02, When American occupiers broke up the Japanese empire in the wake of World War II, approximately 1.7 million people departed Japan for various parts of Northeast Asia. The mass exodus was spearheaded by Koreans, many of whom chartered small fishing vessels to ship them back quickly to their liberated homeland, while wartime devastation hampered the return of Okinawans to their archipelago. By the time the officially endorsed repatriation program was inaugurated, however, increasing numbers of people began escaping US military rule in southern Korea and the Ryukyu Islands by smuggling themselves into occupied Japan. How and why did these migrants move across borderlines newly drawn by American occupiers in the region? Their personal stories reveal what liberation and defeat meant to displaced peoples, and how the compounding challenges of their resettlement led to the expansion of smuggling networks. The consequent surge of unauthorized border-crossings spurred occupation authorities into forging exclusionary migration regulations. Through a comparative study of Korean and Okinawan experiences during the postwar occupation era, this book explores how their migrations shaped, and were in turn shaped by, American policies throughout the region.. |
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Christine de Matos, Mark E. Caprio, Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied, "Dividing Islanders: The Repatriation of 'Ryukyuans' from Occupied Japan," Chapter 11 (Matthew R. Augustine), Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 206-225, 2015.06, "Dividing Islanders: The Repatriation of 'Ryukyuans' from Occupied Japan" (Chapter 11). |
