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15 pages in length. Much of the world's association with Okinawa, Japan is the ill-fated role it played in World War II. Beyond that historical component, many would be hard-pressed to bring forth any other pertinent information about the largest of all the Ryukyu Islands, a city "vivid reminders of a proud, thousand-year-old history tightly woven in the modern-day existence it displays today" (United States Marine Corps., 2005). Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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the largest of all the Ryukyu islands, a city "vivid reminders of a proud, thousand-year-old history tightly woven in the modern-day existence it displays today" (United States Marine Corps, 2005).
II. A DIFFICULT PAST Eighty miles long and approximately eight hundred miles south of Japan, Okinawa is somewhat of a dichotomy within itself: On the one hand, it boasts
some of the worlds most spectacular white sand beaches and azure waters proudly displaying its abundance of coral reef, however, on the other hand is the historical reminiscence of "brutal
battles fought by Americans during World War II" (Walker, 1993). Japans role in the tremendous changes that serve to mold the Okinawa of today is both grand and far-reaching; that
she abolished constitutional government in 1879 and, therefore, revoked Okinawas independent distinction speaks to a span of nearly seventy years where Okinawans were under the thumb of Japanese rule.
When the United States stepped in to invade in 1945, Japan lost its stronghold upon Okinawa, and the islands control made a lateral move to the Americans. Less than
thirty years later, the United States buckled under fierce Japanese pressure to hand over Okinawa to its rightful owner (Walker, 1993). Shuri Castle, a fourteenth-century palace that doubled as a
fortress during the war, housed Japanese soldiers far beneath its fortified structure; providing a haven of security and secrecy throughout myriad tunnels and caves, the army fought mightily against what
was considered a critical "stepping stone for the U.S. invasion of Japan" (Walker, 1993). Despite the fortification inherent to a centuries old castle, the battle proved too much for
Shuri to endure, and it - along with more than twelve thousand American servicemen and fifteen thousand Okinawan natives - perished (Walker, 1993). Prior to this relatively recent history, however,
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