1st Edition
Prolonged Occupation Through Law Architecture of Provisionality in Okinawa
Introduction. Part I. Legal Regimes of Foreign Territorial Authority—Between Consent and Coercion 1. Occupation and Consent: Reassessing the Foundations of Foreign Territorial Control in International Law Chapter 2. The U.S. Constitutional Empire: Territorial Incorporation, Strategic Leaseholds, and the Doctrine of Unincorporated Territories Chapter 3. Entr'acte — The Relativization of Law in Territorial Governance? Part II: Legal Fictions and Administrative Realities — The U.S. Rule over Okinawa 4. Occupation and Disjunction: The Uneven Histories of Okinawa and Mainland Japan, 1945-1948 Chapter 5. Institutionalizing the Provisional: Legal Continuities Across the Peace Treaty Divide, 1948-1952 Chapter 6. Rewriting Occupation: The Collapse of Civilianization in the Administration of the Ryukyus, 1953–1957 Chapter 7. The Dilemma of Normalization under Foreign Rule: Democratization and Development without Sovereignty, 1958-1972 Part III: Reconfiguring Sovereignty and Responsibility— Japan's Legal Response to the Okinawa Question 8. Residual Sovereignty: Japan's Role in the Post-Treaty Governance of Okinawa Conclusion: Legalized Fictions, Strategic Ambiguity, and the Politics of the Uninhabited Island. Documentary Supplement. Bibliography
Biography
Kyo Arai is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, Doshisha University, Japan.
