Abstract
This paper examines how the Cosmopolitan city formation plan (Kokusai-Toshi-Keisei-Kousou) announced by the Masahide Ota Governor of Okinawa Prefecture in 1996 should be positioned in the post-war history of Okinawa. The Cosmopolitan city formation plan is generally regarded as an economic vision for the use of former sites of bases. However, its significance lies in the point that it aimed to escape from the Okinawa promotion and development system (Okinawa-Shinkou-Kaihatsu-Taisei). The origin of the Okinawa promotion and development system can be found in the rise of the island-wide struggle (Shimagurumi-Tousou) in the 1950s and the U.S. military’s countermeasures against it. Its essence is a Keynesian policy. Hayek’s thoughts on the new politics after Keynesianism are important in thinking about escaping from the Okinawa promotion and development system as a Keynesian governance system.
