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This week, I'm going to recommend Night in the American Village by Akemi Johnson.

Johnson takes on one aspect of the American presence on Okinawa, the difficult, complex,

and often quite depressing relationship between American servicemen stationed on Okinawa and

Okinawan women.

Covering everything from intermarriage to the terrible stories of murders by American personnel,

this is a fascinating look at the human cost of the American strategic presence in East Asia.

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Thank you. slash Japan to claim your copy. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 305, The American Outpost, Part 2.

The more I think about it, the more I think there is a fundamental similarity in the way that

both Imperial Japan and the United States regarded Okinawa.

To be clear, that's not me saying that the two treated Okinawans the same way.

The extreme callousness with which Okinawan lives were handled in

1945 by the Imperial Japanese government, the project of forced assimilation,

these things are different, more damning than even the worst

possible interpretation of Uskar policy.

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