The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community

In: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

In: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society Ser.

Abstract

Since its incorporation into the Japanese nation-state in 1879, Okinawa has been seen by both Okinawans and Japanese as an exotic "South," both spatially and temporally distinct from modern Japan. In The Limits of Okinawa, Wendy Matsumura traces the emergence of this sense of Okinawan difference, showing how local and mainland capitalists, intellectuals, and politicians attempted to resolve clashes with labor by appealing to the idea of a unified Okinawan community. Their numerous confrontations with small producers and cultivators who refused to be exploited for the sake of this ideal produce

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Limits of Okinawa: Japanese capitalism, living labor, and theorizations of community

In: Asia-Pacific

In: Culture, politics, and society

Matsumura, Wendy

Matsumura, Wendy

Abstract

The birth of Okinawa prefecture and the creation of difference -- The Miyako Island Peasantry Movement as an event -- Reforming old customs, transforming women's work -- The impossibility of plantation sugar in Okinawa -- Uneven development and the rejection of economic nationalism in "Sago Palm Hell" Okinawa -- Living labor and the limits of Okinawan community

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