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Looking Back at Okinawa : the perspectives of wartime evacuees

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Abstract Towards the end of the Second World War (the Daitoua War), many Okinawans were evacuated to various parts of the island of Kyushu. In the years that followed, two newspapers: the Jiyu Okinawa (Free Ok...inawa) and the Okinawa Shinminpo (New Okinawa Post), were published for the benefit of these Okinawan evacuees, and today serve to illuminate the situation in which they found themselves. The Okinawan writer Oshiro Tatsuhiro was evacuated to Kumamoto after his return from the war in China, and his play Boukyou, (Longing for Home) is based upon this experience of evacuation. The message that Bokyo presents is one of the importance of friendship as a feeling of mutual interdependence.show more

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Created Date 2009.12.25
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