Embattled Okinawa: Mirror of the Asia-Pacific

The restored Seiden (Main Hall) of Shuri Castle at its opening on May 15, 1992, coinciding with twentieth anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japanese control. (© Jiji)

Demonstrators mass at a protest rally in Ginowan, Okinawa, on October 21, 1995, following the kidnapping and rape of an Okinawan girl by US servicemen. (© Jiji)