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Author：OKAMOTO Naobumi
Price：5250JPY（Tax Inclued）
Deluxedition：80Pages　280mm×280mm

Editing：HATANAKA Akihiro
Book Design：NAGOYA Hajime（warren）
Plate-making：TANIGUCHI Yasuo
Text：OGURA Nobuyuki
（Professor at University of Ryukyu Department of Engineering）
Map-making：OGURO Kenji
Translation：MATSUOKA Hideko
Print/Bookbinding：SUN M COLOR co.,ltd.
Publishing Office：LIFE GOES ON inc.
Publisher：OKAMOTO Naobumi
ZIP154-0002
#108 Shimouma Heim,2-26-15,Shimouma,Setagaya-ku,TOKYO
TEL 03-5486-8889
ISBN978-4-9904437-0-2
©2008　OKAMOTO Naobumi

Photographer's Note

  The Battle of Okinawa was determined.
  More than 200,000 Okinawans were killed in the Battle. Military bases in Okinawa were provided for the U.S. in return for the independence of Japan, and U.S. forces began the occupation of Okinawa.
1946  The Okinawa Civilian Administration was established.
1950  The Korean War broke out.
1952  The San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty were ratified. Sovereignty was returned to Japan however, the U.S. military occupied and retained control of Okinawa. Okinawa was a military position as the Keystone of the Pacific.
1960  The Vietnam War broke out.
1972  Reversion of Okinawa to Japan.

The encounter between Okinawa and the U.S. was forced.

Okinawa was not independently but was forcibly connected to the U.S. by war and occupation.
Even now over 60 years later, the occupation and violence still continue.
Okinawan culture has been created by its ironic relation to the U.S. The "off base U.S. family housing" is the beginning of thinking about Okinawa and photographs.

OKAMOTO Naobumi