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Zoom Lecture Opportunity from UC Santa Cruz: Revisiting The Koza Uprising in Global Perspectives

The Okinawa Memories Initiative at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is going to have a Zoom event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Koza Uprising. 

"Fifty years ago this December, Okinawan protests against US military rule turned violent for the first and, so far, only time. On the anniversary, the Okinawa Memories Initiative will host a public discussion about the 'Koza Riots,' featuring an eyewitness photojournalist, an American army veteran who had been stationed in Okinawa and two Okinawan American scholars reflecting on race and the meaning of the event fifty years on in the days of Black Lives Matter."

Source: https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/revisiting-the-koza-uprising-in-global-perspectives/

Registration is required. 

The Registration is linked from the icon "REGISTER" on the page above. 

Date: December 19 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm, PST
Date: December 19 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm, HST

The Okinawa Collection at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Library has Koza related resources. 

• Koza shishi / コザ市史
• Hisutorīto histreet : watching history from the street / ヒストリート histreet : watching history from the street
• Beikoku ga mita Koza bōdō : Beikoku kōbunsho Ei-Wa taiyaku = Koza riot as seen by the U.S. : U.S. official document side by side in English and Japanese / 米国が見たコザ暴動 : 米国公文書英和対訳 

Okinawa City has created an online archive of Koza City. 

"City has collected various postwar materials and displayed them at its postwar cultural history materials museum “Histreet.” “Web Histreet” has been created so that many people will be able to browse these materials over the Internet."

The site is available in multiple languages, including English.

https://www.histreet.okinawa.jp/histreet/FAA10/init?locale=en_US#gsc.tab=0