Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei
In: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of photos -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Japanese words and names -- 1 War brides' silent journeys -- 1.1 War brides as a category of migrants -- 1.2 Japanese war brides -- 1.3 Images of war brides in Japan -- 1.4 War brides in the Global South -- 1.5 Towards a life-course approach in analysing war bride migration -- 1.6 Meaningful encounters: notes on methodology -- 1.7 The book -- 2 Memories of war and its aftermath: the Battle of Okinawa and the American Occupation -- 2.1 Katsuko's memories -- 2.2 Through a woman's eyes: the Battle of Okinawa -- 2.3 When they came: the American Occupation of Okinawa -- 2.3.1 Marrying the enemy? International marriages during the Occupation -- 3 Okinawan women's journey to the Philippines -- 3.1 The Philippine Okinawan Society -- 3.2 Crossing the seas to the Philippines -- 3.3 "Haponesa": ethnicized identity as stigma -- 3.3.1 Inheriting the stigma: children of the "Haponesa" -- 3.4 "We are Issei": reclaiming an identity -- 3.5 Issei stories -- 3.6 Choosing to stay: Okinawan women in the Philippines -- 3.6.1 Yoko's story -- 3.6.2 Taeko's story -- 3.6.3 Fusae's story -- 3.6.4 Those who remained -- 4 Homecomings: the return to Okinawa -- 4.1 Return in later life -- 4.2 The Issei's "return": fulfilling a mother's obligation -- 4.3 The Catholic Church in the lives of the Issei -- 4.4 The question of home -- 5 Migration and the end-of-life: when death becomes her question -- 5.1 Death and migration -- 5.2 Death, religion, and tradition in Okinawa -- 5.3 Catholic rites and the Issei -- 5.4 "And to dust you shall return": perceptions on the end-of-life, home, and return -- 5.5 Death and the life course -- 6 War brides and the life course: a conclusion -- 6.1 Re-locating Okinawa beyond the U.S.-Japan Nexus -- 6.2 Migration and/in the life course.