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Articles by Steve Rabson

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Steve Rabson is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, Brown University. His books are Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1989, reprinted 1996), Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998), Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa, co-edited with Michael Molasky (University of Hawaii Press, 2000), The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within (University of Hawaii Press, 2012), Islands of Resistance: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, co-edited with Davinder Bhowmik (University of Hawaii Press, 2016); and translator of Okinawa’s GI Brides: Their Lives in America by Etsuko Takushi Crissey (University of Hawaii Press, 2017). He was stationed in Okinawa as a U.S. Army draftee in 1967-68., and is an Asia-Pacific Journal contributing editor.

Taoka Shunji With Introduction and Translation by Steve Rabson

Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from South Korea is Long Overdue: Examining the Military Balance on the Korean Peninsula

Etsuko Takushi Crissey

Okinawa’s G.I. Brides: Their Lives in America

Okuaki Satoru with an Introduction and Translation by Steve Rabson

How Japanese scientists confronted the U.S. and Japanese governments to reveal the effects of Bikini H-bomb tests

By Tamaki Rieko, Translation by Steve Rabson Illustrations by Yamashiro Saburō

Amidst War’s Devastation: How a Ten-year-old Girl Barely Survived the Battle of Okinawa

Gregory Kulacki with a comment by Steve Rabson

Nuclear Hawks in Tokyo Call for Stronger US Nuclear Posture in Japan and Okinawa

American Literature on the Battle of Okinawa and the Continuing US Military Presence

On Okinawa, Locals Want US Troops to Leave

Taoka Shunji and Steve Rabson

Trump's Threat to Charge Japan More for U.S. Forces: Taoka Shunji says “Let them leave.”

Perry’s Black Ships in Japan and Ryukyu: The Whitewash of History

Tim Shorrock and Steve Rabson

Okinawans Say “No Pasarán” to the U.S. Marines: A delegation to Washington asks the Obama administration to respect democracy

Ota Masakatsu and Steve Rabson

U.S. Veterans Reveal 1962 Nuclear Close Call Dodged in Okinawa

Steve Rabson and Yudai Nakazawa

Okinawa and disaster-struck Tohoku region sacrificed for Tokyo

Masako Shinjo Summers Robbins and Steve Rabson

My Story: A Daughter Recalls the Battle of Okinawa

The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan at War

Sarah Bird and Steve Rabson

Above the East China Sea: Okinawa During the Battle and Today

Okinawa’s Henoko was a “storage location” for nuclear weapons: published accounts

Nago Mayor Inamine’s Concise Guide to What’s Wrong with the Planned Marine Air Base

Being Okinawan in Japan: The Diaspora Experience

Henoko and the U.S. Military: A History of Dependence and Resistance−−

“Secret” 1965 Memo Reveals Plans to Keep U.S. Bases and Nuclear Weapons Options in Okinawa After Reversion 1965

Case Dismissed: Osaka Court Upholds Novelist Oe Kenzaburo for Writing that Japanese Military Ordered "Group Suicides" in Battle of Okinawa

Okinawan Perspectives on Japan's Imperial Institution