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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