About the Author

Steve Rabson is professor emeritus of East Asian studies at Brown University.

Reviews

With its clear organization, concise arguments, and highly readable translations, this book would fit easily in an undergraduate curriculum to East Asian societies. . . . The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan is an important contribution to an unfairly neglected aspect of Japanese history.--Christopher T. Nelson "Monumenta Nipponica"

Throughout his book, Rabson draws on background information widely dispersed in works of history, sociology, literature, musicology and political science, to which he adds original research in the form of interviews. . . . In drawing on these various materials, Rabson depicts life in the diaspora, and he does so with great care and impeccable command of detail.--Patrick Heinrich "Pacific Affairs"