The Aftermath of WWII and Emerging Cold War
Postwar Okinawa - Part One [Forthcoming - John Michael Purves - Okinawa History & Culture Course - lecture readings]
The Origins of the US Military Base System in Okinawa [Written by John Michael Purves]
Cairo Communique, 1st December 1943 [Link to the internal Archive section]
The Yalta Agreement - 11th February 1945 [Link to the internal Archive section]
Nimitz Proclamation (No. 1), April 1945 [Link to the internal Archive section]
Potsdam Declaration (United States, China, and the United Kingdom), 26th July 1945 [Link to the internal Archive section]
The Japan-US Alliance System and Okinawa's Role as a Strategic Military Base Location
Establishing the US-Japan Alliance System in Okinawa: the Peace and Security Treaties [Written by John Michael Purves]
Enclosure to Dispatch No. 1293, 22nd September 1947 [Link to the internal Archive section]
Emperor of Japan's Opinion Concerning the Future of the Ryukyu Islands, 22nd September 1947 [Link to the internal Archive section]
Multilateral Treaty of Peace With Japan, 8th September 1951 (Selected Text) [Link to the internal Archive section]
John Foster Dulles on "Residual Sovereignty", 8th September 1951 [Link to the internal Archive section]
Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, 8th September 1951 [Link to the internal Archive section]
The Postwar Okinawan Economy - Part One [Forthcoming - John Michael Purves - Okinawa History & Culture Course - lecture readings]
Economic Policy: Separating Okinawa from Japan and Endaka [Written by John Michael Purves]
The Military Land Problem - Part One [Forthcoming - John Michael Purves - Okinawa History & Culture Course - lecture readings]
Military Land Problem-related photos [John Michael Purves - Okinawa History & Culture Course - lecture materials]
Land Issues: The Legality of Land Acquisitions [Written by John Michael Purves]
The Power of Eminent Domain and the Shima Gurumi Toso [Written by John Michael Purves]
The Price Recommendations and the Unravelling of an Alliance [Written by John Michael Purves]
The Melvin Price Report, 8th June 1956 [Link to the internal Archive section]
The Road to Reversion and the Impact of the Vietnam War in Okinawa
Japanese Government Aid, Defence Procurements, and Economic Change [Written by John Michael Purves]
Kishi-Eisenhower Joint Communique, 21st June 1957 [Link to the internal Archive section]
Sato-Johnson Communique, 13th January 1965 [Link to the internal Archive section]
The Ittaika Boom and Hypothetical Pre-Reversion Planning [Written by John Michael Purves]
Long-Term Development Planning – Early GOJ/Okinawa Initiatives [Written by John Michael Purves]
Sato-Nixon Communique, 21st November 1969 [Link to the internal Archive section]
(Secret) Agreed Minute to the Sato-Nixon Communique, 21st November 1969 [Link to the internal Archive section]
Reversion Decided: Official and Independent Initiatives [Written by John Michael Purves]
The Okinawa Reversion Agreement, 17th June 1971 [Link to the internal Archive section]
The Post-Reversion Period
The Shock of the New: Expectations versus Realities [Written by John Michael Purves]
Kakusa Zesei and the Promotion and Development of Okinawa [Written by John Michael Purves]
The Military Land Problem - Part Two [Forthcoming - John Michael Purves - Okinawa History & Culture Course - lecture readings]
The Bountiful Eighties: Economic Strength and Political Calm [Written by John Michael Purves]
The Reformist Nineties: Bringing Bases Back onto the Agenda [Written by John Michael Purves]
Heiwa, Kyosei, Jiritsu: Ota Masahide’s Base-free Cosmopolis Ideal [Written by John Michael Purves]
Images from the 1998 Gubernatorial Elections [John Michael Purves - Okinawa History & Culture Course - lecture materials]
Gender and communal land rights litigation [Forthcoming - John Michael Purves - Okinawa History & Culture Course - lecture readings]
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