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This edited collection brings to the fore the interconnectedness of Japan's history with the wider Asian-Pacific region and the world. The essays from professors and early career academics cover a range of topics that examine Japan's transnational history through the themes of empire, migration, and social movements. Together the essays examine the place of Japan's modern history within the multitude of its transnational connections to its surrounding region and the wider world and focus on the flow and movement of people, ideas, and political projects.

This collection provides a multidisciplinary study of postwar and contemporary Okinawa. The contributors analyze the unique social and cultural transformations that have occurred outside the context of American military control or US-Japan relations.

This edited volume presents the latest multidisciplinary research that delves into developments related to contemporary Okinawa (a.k.a Ryukyu Islands), and also engages with contemporary debates on American hegemony and Empire in a larger geographical context. Okinawa, long viewed as a marginalized territory in larger historical processes, has been characterized solely by the U.S. military presence in the islands, despite having embraced a multiplicity of social and cultural transformations since the end of the Pacific War. In this timely academic revision of Okinawa, occurring at the time of...