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Introduction: Negotiating The Okinawan Difference In Japan Today / Ina Hein And Isabelle Prochaska-meyer -- History And Politics -- Ryūkyū Shobun: A Difficult Chapter In Okinawan History / Stanislaw Meyer -- Setting Out To Imagine A New Community: Okinawa's Reversion To Japan / Gabriele Vogt -- Social Movements In Okinawa Since 1945: Was The Reversion A Threshold In The Development Of Civil Society? / Beata Bochorodyz -- Message From Okinawa I / Asato Eiko -- Language -- Language Or Dialect? The Place Of The Ryukyuan Varieties In The Japonic Language Family / Patrick Heinrich -- Japanese As A Foreign Language? The Introduction Of The Japanese Language In Okinawan Primary Schools / Kawasaki Sayaka -- Retrieving A Moribund Language: Nikolay A. Nevskiy And His Miyakoan Dictionary In Ryukyuan Lexicology And In Scholarship / Aleksandra Jarosz And Alfred F. Majewicz -- Representations And Images -- Deigo And Shureimon: The Visual Representation Of Ryukyu On Ryukyuan Stamps (1948-1972) Compared To That Of Okinawa On Japanese Stamps (1972-2012) And Japanese Regional Stamps (1989-2012) / Sepp Linhart -- Writing Back: Literature From Okinawa: A Postcolonial Perspective / Ina Hein -- Shamanism As A Symbol For Okinawan-ness: Identity Politics In Japanese Films And Literature Depicting Okinawa / Shiotsuki Ryoko -- Message From Okinawa Ii / Ishikawa Mao -- Changes And Transformations -- Development And Evolution Of Ancestor Worship In Okinawa: Taking Account Of The State System In Folk Culture Studies / Akamine Masanobu -- From Hawaii To Okinawa: The Expansion Of The Paradise Image And Tourism Beyond Time And Place / Tada Osamu -- Contributors. Edited By Ina Hein And Isabelle Prochaska-meyer. Includes Bibliographical References.