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“Positions 1968-1988”, Noboru Hama’s second book of his “Okinawa” trilogy, explores life in Okinawa with a much more political lens than the first book.

The snapshot photographs begin in 1968, before Okinawa’s official return to Japan, and continue up until 1988. Compared to “Shima – Sore jishin no owarinaki toki he,” Hama’s photographs in “Positions” concern themselves much more with the American presence on Okinawa and the consequences and conflicts that result from it.