Miyume Tanji
Biographic Data
| ID | 284546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miyume Tanji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miyume |
| FAMILY NAME | Tanji |
| SIGNATURE | TANJI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
U.S. Veterans (and the Okinawa Dugong) Reveal MCAS Futenma's Infringement of U.S. Navy's Safety Standards
Dedication: This essay is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Arasaki Moriteru, Professor of Politics at Okinawa University who passed away on March 31, 2018. For many years in Okinawa, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma in the heart of Ginowan City has been synonymous with danger. In 2003, when surveying the controversial installation from the air, United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld remarked that this, “base is the most dangerous…
Okinawa Under Occupation
To Our Readers; Introduction
This introductory essay examines the shared interests and subject matter of Asian american Studies and Indigenous Studies. In addition of summaries of the essays included in the special issue, the essay touches on matters of Asian, Asian american, and Native political movements, cultural production, and identity
Militarised sexualities in East Asia
East Asia is now one of the most militarised regions of the planet, hosting the huge standing armies of the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the smaller armies of Taiwan, Vietnam and Mongolia. As the European powers and the United States advanced into East Asia in the nineteenth century, their advance was accompanied by various kinds of relationships with people in colonies, sett…
Rethinking Resistance in Everyday Okinawa
The Okinawan people's resistance has come full circle since the uprising of 1995, in which 85,000 residents protested against the rape of a local schoolgirl by three United States soldiers, giving rise to a “third wave” of the postwar “Okinawan struggle” (Tanji, 2006; Arasaki, 2005). The first and second waves of protest refer to a series of mass protests against the forceful land seizure by the US military's “bulldozers and bayonets” for militar…
Community, Resistance, and Sustainability in an Okinawan Village
The presence of some 737 US military outposts around the world imposes great strains, and there is always the possibility of rejection by the inhabitants of adjacent communities. Chalmers Johnson, author of the acclaimed trilogy on US imperial expansion and its costs, highlights the tensions between overseas US bases and the countries where they are deployed, most prominently Okinawa. Nearly one-fifth of the land surface of Okinawa's small, crowd…
Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa
Okinawan people have developed a unique tradition of protest in their long history of oppression and marginalization. Beginning with the Ryukyu Kingdom’s annexation to Japan in the late nineteenth century, Miyume Tanji charts the devastation caused by the Second World War, followed by the direct occupation of post-war Okinawa and continued presence of the US military forces in the wake of reversion to Japan in 1972. With ever more fragmented orga…
Okinawa and the Paradox of Public Opinion
So much has happened to the Okinawan protest against the Futenma base relocation in the past 10 years: the formal and informal local resistance has been such that the new U.S. military sea base that was to replace Futenma Air Station has not been built. However, the election results in Okinawa continue to produce mayors and governors ready to accept relocation, largely for economic reasons. What explains this contradiction? How democratic have th…
Democratic Peace” and “Asian Democracy”
Rethinking Resistance in Everyday Okinawa
The Okinawan people's resistance has come full circle since the uprising of 1995, in which 85,000 residents protested against the rape of a local schoolgirl by three United States soldiers, giving rise to a “third wave” of the postwar “Okinawan struggle” (Tanji, 2006; Arasaki, 2005). The first and second waves of protest refer to a series of mass protests against the forceful land seizure by the US military's “bulldozers and bayonets” for militar…
Democratic Peace” and “Asian Democracy”
Democratic Peace” and “Asian Democracy”
Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa
Okinawan people have developed a unique tradition of protest in their long history of oppression and marginalization. Beginning with the Ryukyu Kingdom’s annexation to Japan in the late nineteenth century, Miyume Tanji charts the devastation caused by the Second World War, followed by the direct occupation of post-war Okinawa and continued presence of the US military forces in the wake of reversion to Japan in 1972. With ever more fragmented orga…
Okinawa and the Paradox of Public Opinion
So much has happened to the Okinawan protest against the Futenma base relocation in the past 10 years: the formal and informal local resistance has been such that the new U.S. military sea base that was to replace Futenma Air Station has not been built. However, the election results in Okinawa continue to produce mayors and governors ready to accept relocation, largely for economic reasons. What explains this contradiction? How democratic have th…
Rethinking Resistance in Everyday Okinawa
The Okinawan people's resistance has come full circle since the uprising of 1995, in which 85,000 residents protested against the rape of a local schoolgirl by three United States soldiers, giving rise to a “third wave” of the postwar “Okinawan struggle” (Tanji, 2006; Arasaki, 2005). The first and second waves of protest refer to a series of mass protests against the forceful land seizure by the US military's “bulldozers and bayonets” for militar…
Community, Resistance, and Sustainability in an Okinawan Village
The presence of some 737 US military outposts around the world imposes great strains, and there is always the possibility of rejection by the inhabitants of adjacent communities. Chalmers Johnson, author of the acclaimed trilogy on US imperial expansion and its costs, highlights the tensions between overseas US bases and the countries where they are deployed, most prominently Okinawa. Nearly one-fifth of the land surface of Okinawa's small, crowd…
Militarised sexualities in East Asia
East Asia is now one of the most militarised regions of the planet, hosting the huge standing armies of the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the smaller armies of Taiwan, Vietnam and Mongolia. As the European powers and the United States advanced into East Asia in the nineteenth century, their advance was accompanied by various kinds of relationships with people in colonies, sett…
To Our Readers; Introduction
This introductory essay examines the shared interests and subject matter of Asian american Studies and Indigenous Studies. In addition of summaries of the essays included in the special issue, the essay touches on matters of Asian, Asian american, and Native political movements, cultural production, and identity
Okinawa Under Occupation
U.S. Veterans (and the Okinawa Dugong) Reveal MCAS Futenma's Infringement of U.S. Navy's Safety Standards
Dedication: This essay is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Arasaki Moriteru, Professor of Politics at Okinawa University who passed away on March 31, 2018. For many years in Okinawa, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma in the heart of Ginowan City has been synonymous with danger. In 2003, when surveying the controversial installation from the air, United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld remarked that this, “base is the most dangerous…
Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · China (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)