Join us in conversation with author Akemi Johnson '04 as she discusses her book Night in the American Village. At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of US Military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades, with tensions often exacerbated by the often volatile relationship between islanders and the military,, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year=old girl byt three servicemen in the 1990s. The book focuses on the women in Okinawa, with stories ranging from life after World War Two ended, to the intermarriage of American men with Okinawan women in the late 20th Century to the murder of an Okinawan woman by ex-US servicemen in 2016.

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