| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
During the two years from 2005-2006, the head investigator photographed and photocopied documents made by the United States Civil Administration on the Ryukyus (USCAR) in National Archives II, U.S. and Okinawa Prefecture Archives, Japan. Analyzing the documents, he examined how the USCAR governed postwar Okinawa and local politics was formed there and investigated how USCAR influenced the local politics. The thus collected documents concern the activities of the Public Safety, Public Affairs, Administrative Office, Liaison, and Health, Education, and Welfare Departments and amount to more than 1,300 items. These documents are valuable historical resources describing USCAR's secret investigation into leftist parties, politicians, and activists, monitoring of the Government of Ryukyus' local elections, and social control over Okinawa using the policies of A-sign and off-limits. Especially, the documents made by the Public Safety Department have not yet been available in Japan. This group of documents tells us so far little known facts regarding USCAR's intervention into and control over Okinawan local politics and society. In combination with the preceding works on Okinawa by the head investigator, this research has revealed by evidence the processes in which Okinawans were forced to accept U.S. military bases and in which the U.S. military governance became stable. The final report of this research explains the contents of the USCAR documents and roughly examines USCAR's public health policies toward Koza (currently Okinawa) City, the dynamism of Koza City's pre-reversion politics, and the developments of the City's social disorders such as prostitution, racial problems, and riots. As an appendix, an item list of the documents collected in the U.S. and Okinawa is added to the end of the report. The report is also uploaded to the homepage of the head investigator, making it available to the public.
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