Seminar featuring Satoko Norimatsu “What is Our Responsibility Toward Okinawa?”
event date:2018.06.07
The Center for Glocal Studies is hosting the following seminar. No registration is required and admission is free.
Satoko Norimatsu: “What is Our Responsibility Toward Okinawa?”
Coordinator: Dennis Riches (Faculty of Social Innovation)
Admission is free. Please come directly to the venue.
The event forms part of Seijo University’s MEXT-supported Research Branding Program for Private Universities.
＜Dates & Venue＞
Date : Thursday, June 7, 2018, 16:30–18:00
Venue : Room 723, Floor 2, Building 7, Seijo University.
Directions can be found here.
(The venue is a four-minute walk from Seijogakuen-mae Station on the Odakyu Odawara Line).
Hosted by : Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University
＜For further information＞
Center for Glocal Studies (CGS), Seijo University
Seijo 6-1-20, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-8511, Japan
Phone: 03-3482-1497 Fax: 03-3482-9740
Email: glocalstudies[at]seijo.ac.jp
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1. Summary
Despite being a Japanese person, I knew very little about Okinawa. I only started to think about peace in Okinawa after reaching the age of 40. I don’t want students of today to be like me in this respect. Okinawa receives numerous tourists from the hondo (“Mainland Japan”), but few know, few are taught, few care, and many are misinformed about the US bases in the prefecture, and how these bases remain—and are even looking to expand—as a “deterrent” under the US-Japan “security” arrangements. The people living there suffer in various ways. How should we regard this issue and what should we do about it? In this seminar, I want to relate my own experience and discuss these questions with you.
2. Guest speaker
Satoko Norimatsu (editor of Japan Focus: The Asia-Pacific Journal):
Born in Tokyo. Resided in the west coast of Canada for 23 years. Obtained a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC). Taught programs for the UBC Centre for Intercultural Communication. In 2007, she established the Peace Philosophy Centre (peacephilosophy.com).
As editor of Japan Focus: The Asia-Pacific Journal, she has researched, taught, and written about social justice, historical awareness, war responsibility, US bases, and nuclear weapons. She co-authored with Gavan McCormack, Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States (2012). Her Japanese-language works include Yoshi senso ni tsuite hanaso, Senso no honsitsu ni tsuite hanaso ja naika [Let’s Talk About War; Let's Talk About What War Really is] (2014, co-authored with Oliver Stone* and Peter Kuznick**) and Okinawa wa koritsu shite inai [Okinawa is Not Alone] (2018).
*Oliver Stone is a movie director. His works include Wall Street, JFK, World Trade Center, and Snowden.
**Peter Kuznick is a historian. His works include Okinawa is Not Alone.
