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Two Reviews of Recent Books on Ruffians and Trash

April 19, 2023Dustin Leave a Comment

I had the pleasure of reviewing two excellent books over the last few months. Both reviews are now available. As you’ll see, I thoroughly enjoyed both books, not only for the new lenses on modern Japanese history, but also because… Continue Reading →

My Upcoming Talk at the World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay Area

January 3, 2023Dustin Leave a Comment

I’m excited to be giving a lunchtime address on January 16th to the World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay Area. I’ll be speaking on Japan’s shifting defense policies, as well as my current book project on the history of… Continue Reading →

Festival for Okinawans in America (Yuntaku-kai)

December 14, 2022Dustin Leave a Comment

December 17th @ 4pm PST I’m excited to join this conversation on Saturday, hosted by the Okinawa Prefecture DC Office. Lex McClellan-Ufugusuku (PhD student in History at UC Santa Cruz) and I will briefly introduce the Okinawa Memories Initiative. Feel… Continue Reading →

Ohlone College’s Lytton Center for History and the Public Good

April 24, 2021Dustin Leave a Comment

I’m very excited to be rounding out the Lytton Center‘s spring speakers’ series with my talk, “Protest Nation: Anti-U.S. Base Struggle in Post-War Japan.” My talk focuses on the upwelling of local protest against American military bases in Japan during… Continue Reading →

The Night Okinawa Burned

December 21, 2020Dustin Leave a Comment

In 1970, Koza epitomized an American cold war basetown. Located in the center of Japan’s southernmost prefecture, the Okinawan community was a cauldron of bars and sex, rock and roll, fear and racial violence, militarism and Americana kitsch. Walking down… Continue Reading →

Koza, Okinawa, Okinawa Memories Initiative

A Week in the Old City

April 19, 2020Dustin 2 Comments

December 2019 feels so distant that it might as well be a fever dream than an actual, lived, moment in time. The abrupt changes to our everyday lives in the last weeks, brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic, ensure… Continue Reading →

Conferences, Israel, Japan

Remembering Shuri Castle 首里城を振り返る

October 31, 2019Dustin Leave a Comment

NHK News is reporting that Shuri Castle has apparently been nearly completely destroyed by a fire in the early morning hours of October 31. The cause is still unknown. A Japanese National Treasure and a UN World Heritage Site, the… Continue Reading →

#photos, Okinawa

Lunch at an Okinawan Roadside Cafe: Yanbaru Yokocho やんばる横町

October 26, 2019Dustin Leave a Comment
#photos, Okinawa, Research

Okinawa’s Minatogawa Stateside Town 港川ステイツサイドタウン

October 19, 2019Dustin Leave a Comment

The fashionable Minatogawa Stateside Town sits just outside of Camp Kinser. Previously military housing for off-base contractors, the neighborhood has been slowly winnowed by private development and today hosts a small collection of boutique restaurants and shops ($300 handmade jeans,… Continue Reading →

#photos, Okinawa

Midnight in Naha

October 16, 2019Dustin Leave a Comment
#photos, #沖縄, Okinawa

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