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Contemporary Okinawan Studies and Its Borders: Four Perspectives - Okinawa's GI Brides: Their Lives in America. By Etsuko Takushi Crissey. Translated by Steve Rabson. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. vi, 140 pp. ISBN: 9780824856489 (cloth). - Rethinking Postwar Okinawa: Beyond American Occupation. Edited by Pedro Iacobelli and Hiroko Matsuda. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2017. xv, 195 pp. ISBN: 9781498533133 (paper). - Okinawa and the U.S. Military: Identity Making in the Age of Globalization. By Masamichi S. Inoue. 2nd ed.New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xli, 296 pp. ISBN: 9780231138918 (paper). - The Boundaries of ‘the Japanese’: Volume 1: Okinawa 1818–1972—Inclusion and Exclusion. By Eiji Oguma. Translated by Leonie R. Stickland. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2014. 430 pp. ISBN: 9781920901486 (cloth).

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Okinawa's GI Brides: Their Lives in America. By Etsuko Takushi Crissey. Translated by Steve Rabson. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. vi, 140 pp. ISBN: 9780824856489 (cloth).
Rethinking Postwar Okinawa: Beyond American Occupation. Edited by Pedro Iacobelli and Hiroko Matsuda. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2017. xv, 195 pp. ISBN: 9781498533133 (paper).
Okinawa and the U.S. Military: Identity Making in the Age of Globalization. By Masamichi S. Inoue. 2nd ed.New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xli, 296 pp. ISBN: 9780231138918 (paper).

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

Victoria Young
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 79 , Issue 1 , February 2020 , pp. 185 - 194
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