Few people know about an area called “Kinwan” which used to exist in the former Gushikawa village soon after the battle of Okinawa. The area was inhabited by group of Naha city people who returned from concentration camps evacuation or overseas after the war. Historicizing the District has been difficult because the area was formed by settlement of returning people but disappeared after they moved out to resettle.In this paper I tried to describe the District focusing on how the politics of occupation in Okinawa influenced the historical recognition of subjects. I concluded that the formation and the decline of the Kinwan District were largely influenced by politics of the occupation which also appeared in military labor and economic recovery of Okinawa.

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Though it is a known fact that Naha citizens who evacuated to Northern Okinawa suffered severe famine during the battle of Okinawa and the early US occupation period, detailed situations of the damage still remain unveiled. This is because their evacuation during the war and forced relocation afterward have been told and recorded separately for different time periods. Their dispersion as a result of repeated relocation also made it difficult to see the whole picture. This article focuses on the famine among Naha citizens during these periods and describes their overall migration experiences transversally across the years, illuminating the situation that the poor and fallen food supply system of the occupation forces led to many deaths. Whereas returning home for people from areas other than Naha was the start of “reconstruction,” for Naha citizens, their processes of returning home were a series of desperate struggles to survive.

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