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A Conversation with Claudia Junghyun Kim, author of Base Towns: Local Contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Claudia Junghyun Kim  and
Steve Rabson
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Abstract

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Rabson discusses the new book, Base Towns: Local Contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan with the author, Claudia Junghyun Kim, who traces contentious politics surrounding twenty U.S. military bases across Japan and Korea—two of the largest U.S. base hosts in the world. Kim's book focuses on the municipalities hosting these bases and differing levels of community acceptance and resistance over time. The following excerpt from the book introduces key actors who shape base-community relations and their many twists and turns.

Keywords

U.S. military basesbase townsanti-base protestsanti-base movements, anti-base activistscivil-military relationsbase-community relationsUS-Japan allianceUS-Korea alliance
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Research Article
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 11 , November 2023 , e6
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