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

1945年以后的冲绳历史可以从冲绳文化与美国文化的跨文化接触中看到，这是战后日本历史上冲绳特有的一种罕见而激烈的经历。在本项目中，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、农业经济学、建筑学、公共卫生等领域，对这种文化接触所产生的现象进行了分析。本研究的最后一个目的是综合各项研究，发现跨文化现象的机制，从而为目前在全世界可观察到的这种现象提供一个普遍的模式。为了<st>使这一研究取得成功，我们在2002年至2004年期间开展了以下研究活动：1.访问美国和日本的档案馆，如马里兰州的国家档案馆，收集文献; 2.采访直接参与战后冲绳政治的美国人和日本人; 3.举办多次研讨会，交流意见和看法，相互评价研究成果，发展跨文化性理论。我们还邀请了来自日本的讲师，并举办了跨文化接触的研讨会。（“专题讨论会：美国和冲绳之间的跨文化接触”）在加州大学戴维斯分校，这些活动帮助本研究项目的参与者对他们的研究产生了新的和深刻的见解。各领域的研究报告，并完成最后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.