Jon Mitchell investigates the US and Japan’s longlasting subjugation of OkinawaThis is a book about the battle for Okinawa. Mitchell, an investigative reporter based in Tokyo, claims in his intro that an understanding of this history is key to answering the question posed by the title: how did US military bases become concentrated in Okinawa, and why are they still there? ‘In the terminology of the board game Go, Okinawa was to be a sute ishi, a stone to be sacrificed for the greater good,’ Mitchell writes. As such, and given his clear sympathy with the antibase resistance movement, a more befitting use of the plural pronoun ‘we’ might have been: why are we unheard in Okinawa? by Jon Mitchell.