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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790386003321

Autore

Figal Gerald A. <1962->

Titolo

Beachheads [[electronic resource] ] : war, peace, and tourism in postwar Okinawa / / Gerald Figal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012

ISBN

1-280-67993-X

9786613656865

1-4422-1583-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Asia/Pacific/perspectives

Disciplina

952/.294

Soggetti

Tourism - Japan - Okinawa Island - History - 20th century

Tourism - Government policy - Japan - History - 20th century

Reconstruction (1939-1951) - Japan - Okinawa Island

Okinawa Island (Japan) History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Grave and caves -- pt. 2. Creations and recreations -- pt. 3. Bases and beaches.

Sommario/riassunto

This original and fresh book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semicolonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious current political affairs has reshaped itself into a resort destination. He traces cultural, political, social, and economic issues of Okinawa's postwar experience to the present through the innovative frame of tourism development-both as it has been i