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I Lost My Only Son in the War: Prelude to the Okinawan Anti-Base Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

C. Douglas Lummis  and
Ahagon Shoko
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The following is a translation of parts of Chapters 1 and 2 of Ahagon Shoko's Beigun to Nomin (GIs and Farmers) (1973, Iwanami Shinsho). It describes the beginnings of the struggle between the farmers of Iejima (a small island just off the main island of Okinawa) and the US military which was trying to confiscate their land. Ahagon's memory is revered in Okinawa as the leader of that movement, though he denied that he played that role.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 23 , June 2010 , e1
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