Women's Reversion-to-Japan Movement in Okinawa

This paper considers women's reversion-to-Japan Movement in Okinawa in the era of U.S. military occupation from 1945 to 1972.

The fact that  women supported  that "all Okinawa movement" with the number of mobilization is seldom known.

In Okinawa, how did women experiences  the war and after the battlefield, how tackled the movement, and how lived after the reversion?

Are there experiences, the feature, and a meaning unique to women?

I think the viewpoint of gender is indispensable to consider overall structures of the movement and the community in Okinawa, although it has not been paid enough attention.

For that purpose, I have conducted document analyses and interviews about female teachers. I paid attention to relations between the United States, Japan, and Okinawa, and also to those between men and women.