Of ruptures and returns : Okinawa in the Japanese national imaginary -- Saving Shuri Castle : Ito Chota and the discovery of Okinawa's cultural heritage -- Remembering Okinawa Shrine -- Defining cultural heritage : the Mingei movement in Okinawa -- Returns and repetitions : the uses of Okinawa's cultural heritage in the postwar period
Summary
Tze May Loo's Heritage Politics examines Okinawa's relationship with the Japanese nation-state from 1879 to 2000 through the lens of cultural heritage. This book is a study of the politics of cultural heritage: how the Japanese state and American occupation authorities used-and continue to use-heritage to govern Okinawa, and how Okinawans use it to negotiate, resist, and contest Japanese and American impositions of power
