Postwar Okinawa and the USA : Interdisciplinary Studies of Cross-Cultural Contact.

冲绳1945年后的历史可以从冲绳文化与美国文化的跨文化接触来看，这是日本战后历史上冲绳独有的一种罕见而强烈的经历。在这个项目中，我们从国际关系、宪法、冲绳文学、美国文学与文化、语言政策、传播学、食品科学、农业经济、建筑和公共卫生等领域分析了这种文化接触所产生的现象。本研究的最终目标是综合各项研究，发现跨文化现象的机制，从而为目前世界范围内可观察到的跨文化现象提供一个通用模型。我们希望，这种模式最终将极大地促进21世纪全球化世界中的相互理解。为了使这个项目成功，我们在2002年至2004年期间进行了以下研究活动：我们参观了美国和日本的档案馆，如马里兰州的国家档案馆，收集文件。我们采访了直接参与战后冲绳政治的美国人和日本人。我们举办了许多研讨会，交流思想和意见，评论彼此的研究，发展跨文化理论。我们还邀请了来自日本的讲师，并举办了跨文化交流研讨会。2003年，我们在加州大学戴维斯分校举办了研讨会（“symposium: Cross-Cultural Contact between U.S. and Okinawa”），冲绳的美国学者参与了这个项目，以促进国际学术合作，这些活动帮助这个研究项目的参与者在各自的领域有了新的深入的见解，并完成了最终报告中收集的研究论文。

The history of Okinawa after 1945 can be seen in terms of cross-cultural contact between Okinawan culture and American culture, a rare and intense experience unique to Okinawa in the postwar history of Japan. In this project, phenomena born of this cultural contact were analyzed in such fields as International Relations, the Constitution, Okinawan Literature, American Literature and Culture, Linguistic Policies, Communication, Food Science, Agricultural Economics, Architecture, and Public Health. The final object of this research has been to synthesize each research and discover a mechanism of cross-cultural phenomena, thereby presenting a universal model for such phenomena now observable worldwide. This model, we hope, will eventually contribute greatly to mutual understanding in the globalizing world of the 21^<st> century.To render this project successful, our research involved the following activities between 2002 and 2004 :1.We visited archives in the U.S. and Japan, such as the National Archives in Maryland, to collect documents.2.We interviewed Americans and Japanese who were directly involved in postwar Okinawan politics.3.We held many workshops to exchange ideas and opinions, commenting on each other's research, to develop theories on cross-culturality. We also invited lecturers from Japan and held workshops on cross-cultural contact.4.In 2003,we held a symposium ("Symposium : Cross-Cultural Contact between the U.S. and Okinawa") at the University of California, Davis, and Okinawan American scholars participated in this project to promote international academic collaborationThese activities helped the participants in this research project to develop new and deep insights into their respective fields and complete the research papers collected in the final report.