@article{oai:ocuocjc.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000292,
 author = {浜川, 仁},
 issue = {4},
 journal = {沖縄キリスト教学院大学論集 = Okinawa Christian University Review},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {The word "Japanesia" (pronounced as "yaponesia") was coined by a Japanese novelist Toshio Shimao to represent a key concept for rethinking Japan, not as a political and cultural body with a centralized imperialist government, but primarily as a chain of islands with a variety of lively boarder cultures and rich local traditions. This concept was further developed and imbued with some new theoretical insights by a Japanese ethnologist Ken'ichi Tanigawa whose thoughts have had a great impact on Okinawan writers and critics during the early 1970s, enabling them to form an intellectual stance against Okinawa's reversion to mainland Japan. The "anti-reversion" debate was led by Akira Arakawa, Shin'ichi Kawamitsu, and Keitoku Okamoto, all graduates from the University of the Ryukyus where they first became known in the mid-50s under the American military rule, publishing a leftist literary magazine, Ryudai Bungaku. With a focus on the writings of Tanigawa and Okamoto, this paper argues that the multicultural concept of "Japanesia" is built on the "center/border" opposition, and the way Okinawa is represented through such binary oppositions, however sympathetic and positive, is in fact nationalist as well as Orientalist. Shimao's and Tanigawa's thoughts on Okinawa, therefore, tend to reduce Okinawa to a local community to be absorbed again into the political and social order of Japan, as people actually saw it happen in 1972 later when Okinawa returned to Japan. This paper presents a critical disscussion of the way in which Okamoto as a local critic responded to the concept of "Japanesia" and employed it to create his own thoughts in order to describe what he believed to be distinctively "Okinawan ways" as opposed to the mainland Japanese.},
 pages = {13--23},
 title = {イデオロギーとしてのヤポネシア論－試論－},
 year = {2008}
}