Postwar Okinawa Sections

The Aftermath of WWII and Emerging Cold War

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]

Economic Policy: Separating Okinawa from Japan and Endaka [Written by John Michael Purves]

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]