Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa by Gerald Figal

Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa

Asia/Pacific/Perspectives

Gerald Figal

259 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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This original and fresh book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of s...

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