Using a multi-national and multi-archival approach to this diplomatic history study, the author examines comprehensively and in great detail for the first time the origins of the so-called Okinawa Problem. Also inlcludes four maps.

Robert D. Eldridge

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Strategic Debate Over Okinawa, 1942-1946; Chapter 3 The State Department and Postwar Planning for Okinawa, 1942-1946; Chapter 4 The SWNCC Debate Over Okinawa, 1945-1947; Chapter 5 The Japanese Government's Planning for a Peace Treaty and its Views Regarding Okinawa's Territorial Status, 1945-1948; Chapter 6 Forging a Domestic Policy Consensus for Okinawa; Chapter 7 The Treaty of Peace with Japan and Article 3; Chapter 8 Conclusion;