Title Beachheads : war, peace, and tourism in postwar Okinawa / Gerald Figal.

Publication Info.	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2012]
	©2012

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Series	Asia/Pacific/perspectives
	Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	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.
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Subject	Reconstruction (1939-1951)
	Tourism -- Japan -- Okinawa Island -- History -- 20th century.
	Tourism.
	Japan -- Okinawa Island.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Tourism -- Government policy -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
	Tourism -- Government policy.
	Japan.
	Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Japan -- Okinawa Island.
	Okinawa Island (Japan) -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: 9786613656865 (DLC) 2011051862
ISBN	1442215836 (electronic book)
	9781442215832 (electronic book)
	144221581X
	9781442215818
Standard No.	9786613656865