Opposition movements against the land-requisition by the US Forces in postwar Oita

Resistances from lifeworlds

Abstract

This paper clarifies actualities of people's opposition movements against the land-requisition by the US Forces in postwar Oita. These movements were conducted by local people living in the rural area adjacent to the maneuver fields requisted by the US Forces during the 1950s. Surveying articles of local newspaper and related documents, and personal interviews with local people, this paper describes realities of local people's living conditions under the land-requisition by the US Forces, and illuminates the sentiments of local people engaged in opposition movements against the land-requisition by the US Forces.