Host: The Association of Japanese Geographers
Name : Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2024
Date : March 19, 2024 - March 21, 2024
The Kin Bay Struggle, which took place in Kin Bay on the east coast of central Okinawa Island from the 1970s to the early 1980s, was an environmental movement against the construction of a crude oil storage terminal and the Kin Bay Comprehensive Development Plan. This paper reexamines the philosophy of survival developed in the Kin Bay Struggle from an ontological perspective, and clarifies its significance and potential in contemporary social movement. Furthermore, this paper identifies exchanges between Kin Bay Struggle and the movement in Minamata and attempts to identify commonalities in the philosophy of survival between the two movements.
