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Daniel Akihiro Iwama is a PhD Candidate in UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs. His doctoral research investigates conjunctures of planning and indigenous repossession in militarized Okinawa.
While Japanese and U.S. officials celebrate a demilitatization in the pacific islands, Okinawans protest persistent military colonialism.
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