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Ryan Yokota’s current research focus is on comparative transnational ethnic studies
in both East Asia and in the U.S., with a focus on Uchinānchu (Okinawans) under Japanese
and American colonialism, Asian Latin Americans and Asians in Latin America, and Japanese
American/Asian American history. His previous research focused on Okinawan post-World
War II nationalism and included a focus on movements for independence, movements for
regional autonomy, and the current push to redefine Okinawan identity as indigenous.
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Course Taught/Teaching:
• “Introduction to Japanese History”
• “Introduction to Chinese History”
• “Nationalism(s) in Modern Japan”
• “Minorities and the ‘Other’ in Modern Japan”
• “Asia’s Revolutions”
• “World War II in the Pacific”
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“Reversion-Era Proposals for Okinawan Regional Autonomy.” In Rethinking Postwar Okinawa:
Beyond American Occupation, edited by Hiroko Matsuda and Pedro Iacobelli, 59-79.
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.
“The Okinawan (Uchinānchu) Indigenous Movement and its Implications for Intentional/International
Action.” Amerasia Journal 41:1 (Spring 2015): 55-73.
“Ganbateando: The Peruvian Nisei Association and Okinawan Peruvians in Los Angeles.”
In Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific, edited by Camilla
Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., 427-460. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
“‘Transculturation’ and Adaptation: A Brief History of Japanese and Okinawan Cubans.”
Afro-Hispanic Review 27:1 (Spring 2008): 91-104.
“Interview with Pat Sumi.” In Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment, edited
by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu, 16-31. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies
Center Press, 2001.
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