Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of photos
Acknowledgements
Notes on Japanese words and names
1 War brides’ silent journeys
	1.1 War brides as a category of migrants
	1.2 Japanese war brides
	1.3 Images of war brides in Japan
	1.4 War brides in the Global South
	1.5 Towards a life-course approach in analysing war bride migration
	1.6 Meaningful encounters: notes on methodology
	1.7 The book
2 Memories of war and its aftermath: the Battle of Okinawa and the American Occupation
	2.1 Katsuko’s memories
	2.2 Through a woman’s eyes: the Battle of Okinawa
	2.3 When they came: the American Occupation of Okinawa
		2.3.1 Marrying the enemy? International marriages during the Occupation
3 Okinawan women’s journey to the Philippines
	3.1 The Philippine Okinawan Society
	3.2 Crossing the seas to the Philippines
	3.3 “Haponesa”: ethnicized identity as stigma
		3.3.1 Inheriting the stigma: children of the “Haponesa”
	3.4 “We are Issei”: reclaiming an identity
	3.5 Issei stories
	3.6 Choosing to stay: Okinawan women in the Philippines
		3.6.1 Yoko’s story
		3.6.2 Taeko’s story
		3.6.3 Fusae’s story
		3.6.4 Those who remained
4 Homecomings: the return to Okinawa
	4.1 Return in later life
	4.2 The Issei’s “return”: fulfilling a mother’s obligation
	4.3 The Catholic Church in the lives of the Issei
	4.4 The question of home
5 Migration and the end-of-life: when death becomes her question
	5.1 Death and migration
	5.2 Death, religion, and tradition in Okinawa
	5.3 Catholic rites and the Issei
	5.4 “And to dust you shall return”: perceptions on the end-of-life, home, and return
	5.5 Death and the life course
6 War brides and the life course: a conclusion
	6.1 Re-locating Okinawa beyond the U.S.-Japan Nexus
	6.2 Migration and/in the life course
Index