Dear all,

I am pleased to announce that the following special issue has just been published from the Institute of Socia Theory of Dynamics based in Hiroshima.

Social Theory and Dynamics, Vol.6, 2025
Special issue: Reexaming the Conditions of "Okinawa"

Forword to the Special Issue: Reexamining the Conditions of "Okinawa"
Keisuke Mori, Shinnosuke Takahashi
p. 1-9
https://doi.org/10.51113/stad.6.0_1

Giving People "History": The Epistemology of Comparative Linguistics in Fuyu Ifa
Masashi Tokuda
p. 10-25
https://doi.org/10.51113/stad.6.0_10

Okinawa After Area (Studies): Writing Historically from the Belly of the Beast
Wendy Matsumura
p. 26-37
https://doi.org/10.51113/stad.6.0_26

"The Okinawa Problem as a Node"Writing "Postwar Okinawa" and Moriteru Arasaki's Critique of Cultural Reductionism
Shinnosuke Takahashi
p. 38-49
https://doi.org/10.51113/stad.6.0_38

A Historical and Sociological Study on the Decline of Collectivism in Postwar Okinawan Society
Kei Kohagura
p. 50-62
https://doi.org/10.51113/stad.6.0_50

Rethinking Okinawa's Modernization: Postcolonial Examination of The US Military Economic Development Plan and Military Base Work
Akino Oshiro
p. 63-80
https://doi.org/10.51113/stad.6.0_63

"Child Poverty" and its Countermeasures Constructed to Obtain Government Subsidy: A New Stage in U.S. Base Maintenance Policy in Okinawa
Atsuko Itokazu
p. 81-99
https://doi.org/10.51113/stad.6.0_81

The Kin Bay and Kisenbaru Struggles in Okinawa during the 1970s
Kozue Uehara
p. 100-111
https://doi.org/10.51113/stad.6.0_100



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Naoto Higuchi
School of Human Sciences, Waseda University
2-579-15, Mikajima, Tokorozawa 3591192, Japan
higuchinaoto@waseda.jp
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