Okinawa Underground Baishun Gai Wo Ikita Mono Tachi

[Machine Translation] Around the year 2000, the prostitution district, which had been called "the shameful part of Okinawa," disappeared as a result of the "purification" movement led by the public and private sectors. The author entered the town before that time and conducted in-depth interviews with women engaged in prostitution, brothel operators, yakuza, and others, revealing the inner workings of the town and the structure of prejudice from civil society. The author also traces the history of the town's establishment. The prostitution district was also a countermeasure to the horrific assaults by U.S. soldiers that occurred frequently in Okinawa immediately after the defeat in World War II. It was inseparable from the postwar history of the U.S.-occupied Okinawa. This is an unprecedented work that painstakingly reports on the "prostitution districts" that were erased by the purification movement, and depicts "another postwar history" of Okinawa!

二〇一〇年を過ぎた頃、「沖縄の恥部」とまで言われた売春街が、官民一体となった「浄化」運動によって消滅した。著者はその前からこの街に入り、売春に従事する女性、風俗店経営者、ヤクザなどに綿密な取材を行い、街の内実や市民社会からの偏見の構造を明らかにしてゆく。また著者は、この街ができるまでの歴史を辿る。売春街は、敗戦直後から沖縄で頻発した米軍兵士による凄まじい暴行事件への対応策でもあった。それは米国占領下に置かれた沖縄の戦後史と切り離せない関係にあったのだ―。浄化運動で消された「売春街」を丹念にルポルタージュし、沖縄の「もう一つの戦後史」を描き出す類例のない労作!