resources

Accessible online

"Japan Bears Cost to Clean up Contamination at Returned US Bases under SOFA", Japan Press Weekly, 16 Nov. 2018.

Defoliated Island - Agent Orange, Okinawa and the Vietnam War. Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting, 15 May 2012. 

Uema, Yoko. “Clean Water.” Guernica, translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda,1 May 2023.

"Yongsan Park opens to public for first time in 120 years." YouTube, uploaded by Arirang News, 10 Jun. 2022.

Salmon, Andrew. “US Army Leaves a Huge Hole in Seoul.” Asia Times, 28 Jun. 2022.

Westcott, Ben. "Japanese woman’s murder provokes protests against U.S. bases in Okinawa." CNN, 20 Jun. 2016.

Chambers-Letson, Joshua. “‘A Weak Messianic Power’: Yamashiro Chikako’s ‘Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat.’” Trans-Asia Photography Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2014.

Books

Keyso, Ruth Ann. Women of Okinawa : Nine Voices from a Garrison Island. Cornell University Press, 2000.

Yi, Chŏng-hwa, et al., editors. Still Hear the Wound : Toward an Asia, Politics, and Art to Come. East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2015.

Scholarly sources requiring institutional access

Hong, Seongtae. “Toward a Cultural-Ecological Revival of Military Bases: The Case of the U.S. Yongsan Garrison in Seoul.” Space and Culture, vol. 9, no. 2, 2006, pp. 215–23.

Hwang, Taejin. “Militarized Landscapes of Yongsan: From Japanese Imperial to Little Americas in Early Cold War Korea.” Korea Journal, vol. 58, no. 1, Korean National Commission for UNESCO, 2018, pp. 121–49.

Nishiyama, Hidefumi. “Decolonizing Knowledge of and from Okinawa.” Critical Asian Studies, vol. 54, no. 4, 2022, pp. 552–73.

Saito, Nozomi (Nakaganeku). "Bone and Coral: Ossuopower and the Control of (Future) Remains in Occupied Okinawa." American Quarterly, vol. 74, no. 3, 2022, pp. 567-589.