Creator
Mao Ishikawa and Toyomitsu Higa
Title
Atsuki Hibi in Kyampu Hansen (Hot Days in Camp Hansen).
Coverage
Okinawa
Publisher
Aman Shuppan
Date
1982
Subject
10 1/8 x 7 ½ in., 162 pp, softcover with dust jacket and bellyband, photographically illustrated black endpapers, signed by Ishikawa. Text by Ishikawa, photographs by Ishikawa and Higa.
Description
This book is both an homage to the women who worked in bars catering to US servicemen in Okinawa, and a protest book highlighting Japanese resentment towards the military presence in their hometown. They photographed the working conditions and relationships that developed between their friends and the mostly Black clientele. The importance of this book stems from the fact that few women were afforded the ability to publish their work in Japan until the 1990s, and this subject matter is still relevant.
Relation
From the collection of Jeffrey Gutterman