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The Intimate Effects of U.S. Empire

This chapter explores the intimate effects of the global U.S. military presence through the experiences of U.S. military men and Okinawan women involved in romantic and sexual relationships with one another. Since 1945, the U.S. military has maintained a large-scale presence in Okinawa when the deadliest battle of the Pacific War was fought there. It defines the term “fencelines,” which refers to the barbed wire fences that surround U.S. military installations and mark them off-limits to local people. While military fences literally block access to inside spaces and resources, fencelines also have potent symbolic meanings, signaling the unequal relations of power that have historically separated those on the inside from those on the outside. The chapter also talks about symbolic fencelines that run throughout Okinawan society, dividing local people and places along lines of gender, race, and class in ways that support militarization.