Okinawa after the Cold War and the Return of American Military Bases

Keisuke Enokido

Chapter 5 in Changing Japanese Business, Economy and Society, 2004, pp 77-104 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The social impact of ongoing economic globalization on cities and regions has become a matter of great interest for both local governments and civil society, specifically from the 1990s onward (Stöhr, 1990; Cox, 1997; Douglass and Friedmann, 1998; Edgington et al., 2001; Stöhr et al., 2001). The dynamics of globalization is often characterized by the magnitude of speed and geographical expansion of material and non-material flows transcending the boundaries of nation states (Castells, 1996). Thus, for cities and regions, how to take advantage of and/or cope with changes in external dynamics has recently been seen as a policy imperative. In particular, the opportunities and risks embedded in new global-local linkages are critical issues for ‘backward’ regions — that is, those in relative isolation from mainstream national politics and metropolitan markets.

Keywords: National Government; Liberal Democratic Party; Military Basis; Okinawa Prefecture; Prefectural Government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230524040_5

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