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Naomi Noiri

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Title	Professor
Researcher Number(JSPS Kakenhi)	90264465

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Duty University of the Ryukyus Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Sociology and Human Sciences Professor
Concurrently University of the Ryukyus Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability: RIIS Researcher

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Konan University - PhD, Sociology

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External Career 【 display / non-display 】

2023.10

　

　
2018.04

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2023.09
1998

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2017.03

University of the Ryukyus, Associate Professor of Faculty of Law and Letter
1997

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1998

University of the Ryukyus, Lecturer of Faculty of Law and Letter

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1990.04

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The Japan Sociological Society
1994.04

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The Japanese Association for Migration Studies
1994.04

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Intercultural Education Society of Japan
2001.04

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Comparative and International Education Society

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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

沖縄ディアスポラ
Amerasian
沖縄引揚研究
Amerasian

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

Humanities & Social Sciences / Sociology
Humanities & Social Sciences / Area studies

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Research Theme 【 display / non-display 】

Amerasians in Okinawa: Education and Identity
Ethnic Networks and Identity of Oversea Okinawans

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Thesis 【 display / non-display 】

沖縄のアメラジアン－移動と「ダブル」の社会学的研究

2019.09

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Okinawan Repatriate's Experience in Colonized Oversea Areas : Focusing on Experience Records on Municipality History

Naomi Noiri

( 9 ) 123 - 149 2014.06 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

Type of publication: Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)

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In this paper, I cover the records of the experiences in colonized oversea areas within municipal history published in Okinawa. I inquire into the regional history to bring light on how the experiences of Okinawan repatriates in colonized oversea areas were recorded or were not recorded in the regional history. Before reading through experience records, using the Overseas Repatriate Fact-Finding Data, I attempt to make a general outline. According to the Overseas Repatriate Fact-Finding Data, there are 13,173 repatriates from the South Sea Islands, 3,120 from the Philippines, 6,504 from Taiwan, 1,899 from Manchuria, and 183 from Korea. In this data, repatriates other than the head of the household were not recorded. In whole, the ratio of agriculture and marine product industry was high in the South East Asian and Pacific areas such as South Sea Islands and Philippines. On the other hand, in East Asian regions such as Taiwan, China, Manchuria, and Korea, the ratio of public services, freelance professions, and manufacturing was high. Regarding the prefectural and municipal history published in Okinawa, there are 812 records of experiences mentioned concerning Taiwan, Manchuria, the South Sea Islands, and the Philippines. Of the 812 records, 527 were published as war records focusing on the residents' war experiences. 241 records were published as immigration history. Of the prefectural and municipal history regarding the experiences records on colonized oversea area, approximately seventy percent is concerning war and thirty percent immigration. Here I make a comparison between the contexts of war and immigration. I have selected cases from both war experience records and immigration history to do the comparison. Additionally, I took notice on experiences of minorities such as women and Nisei who was born in the colonized area and made a selection of cases.
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Transborder and Local Identity::Focusing on Kin-Town in Okinawa

Naomi Noiri

Jpn Soc Rev ( The Japan Sociological Society ) 67 ( 4 ) 448 - 465 2016 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)

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In this paper, we will be focusing on a community called Kin-cho, a town located on the mid-north part of Okinawa. Kin-cho is the place of origin of overseas migration in Okinawa. Furthermore, Kin-cho has an American military base named Camp Hansen which is known as one of the most dangerous American military bases on Okinawa. Therefore, Kin-cho is also known as "Kin Town: A town of the military base."</p><p>How did Kin become a "village launching overseas migration in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century?" Moreover, how did it become "Kin Town after the second world war?" In this paper, we will be illustrating the life history of a Hawai'i KIBEI NISEI, who lived in Kin Village before the Second World War, and an Amerasian young woman who grew up in modern Kin-cho. Not only have they both experienced moving overseas but they have also acquired and learned multiple languages and cultures. This paper will examine which penetrates through the different ages of their histories. We will discover the origin of Kin's local identity. We will discover the process of how Okinawa has become Okinawa in the borderline of dynamism.
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Two Worlds:The Amerasian and the Okinawan

Naomi Noiri

Social Process in Hawaii ( University of Hawaii ) ( 42 ) 210 - 230 2007.08 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

Type of publication: Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)
Subjectivity and attachment in Okinawa identity : The survey results of the sixth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival in 2016

Naomi Noiri

( 14 ) 35 - 58 2018.03 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)

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We discuss on the oversea Okinawan's ethnic identity, examining the survey data of the fourth, the fifth and the sixth World-wide Uchinanchu Festival in 2006, 2011 and 2016 in this paper. Innate factors of Okinawan identity, especially “Born and grew up in Okinawa" was decreased, while winning factors, especially “Attachment to Okinawa" and “Subjectivity being an Okinawan person" was increased. Only one increased innate factor was “Roots of ancestor".
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Filipino Women's Living Worlds in Sakishima Islands, Okinawa : Focusing on Network, Leadership and Cultural Inheritance

Naomi Noiri

( 11 ) 7 - 36 2017.06 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

Type of publication: Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)
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Books 【 display / non-display 】

Amerasians in Okinawa: sociology on migration and doubles

NOIRI Naomi ( Part: Single Author )

2022.03
Migration and Repatriation: the Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire

( Part: Multiple Authorship )

2008.06
Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan

Ryoko Tsuneyoshi,Kaori Okano, Mutsumi Shimizu, Chris Burgess, Misako Nakagawa,Naomi Noiri ( Part: Multiple Authorship , Schooling and identity in Okinawa: Okinawans and Amerasians in Okinawa )

Routledge 2011
Challenges to Japanese Education: Economics, Reform, and Human Rights.

June A. Gordon, Hidenori Fujita, Takehiko Kariya, Gerald LeTendre, Takehiko Kariya, Mamoru Tsukada, Akira Sakai, Yoshiro Nabeshima, George A. DeVos, Harumi Behu, Naomi Noiri ( Part: Multiple Authorship , The Education of Minoirties in Japan: Voices of Amerasians in Okinawa. )

Teachers College Press 2010
Globalization and Cultural Transformation: Fieldworks in Hawaii, Brazil and Japan

( Part: Multiple Authorship )

2008.03

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Presentations 【 display / non-display 】

Web Transmission of Collective Memory on Covid-19

NOIRI NAOMI

ISA (オンライン) 2021.02 - 2021.02
Learning in-between: The surveys of mix-race children in Okinawa US military reign.

野入直美

Penser les métissages en Asie (エクス・マルセイユ大学) 2017.06 - 2017.06
映像表象における沖縄のアメラジアン

野入直美

2012 University of the Ryukyus and University of Hawaii Joint Symposium (沖縄県市町村自治会館) 2012.11 - 2012.11
Migration, Gender and Okinawa as a Homeland:The 5th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival Survey Results

Naomi Noiri

Labor Migration :Historical and Contemporary Issues from an “Islands” Perspective” (University of Hawaii.) 2012.03 - 2012.03
Amerasian in Okinawa: Part of “Champuru”?

野入直美

国際シンポジウム「コンタクトゾーンとしての島嶼における文化現象－沖縄と東アジア、太平洋島嶼地域－ (琉球大学) 2009.11 - 2009.11