Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to consider the meaning of changes in the discourse on “Okinawa Problem” before and after the “Return” on the basis of a case study of the National Conference for Educational Research (NCER). This is done in the context of questioning the idea of “postwar”. This research is based on reports from 1966 to 1978 of the NCER by an agency of the Japan Teachers' Union. This paper demonstrates changes in the discourse on “Okinawa Problem” by the “Return”. To study discussions at the NCER chronologically, this paper aims to describe interactions with “Hondo” and Okinawa and to approach to the trait of influence of Power in discourse. I reexamine the “postwar” by giving attention to the voices of Okinawa that was structurally suppressed during the cold war.
