“Film Screening: Cocktail Party”
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About the Film
When the daughter of a Japanese businessman in Okinawa charges that a U.S. serviceman assaulted her, the serviceman claims the encounter was entirely consensual. The ensuing civil and military investigations bring to light persistent resentment going back many years on both sides about the human toil of accommodating long term military occupation.
Speaker
Theodore Regge Life
Film Director
Moderator
Dr. Steve Rabson
Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, Brown University
Date & Time
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:45 PM
Location
Room B12
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052
Steve Rabson is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, Brown University. He has published books and articles about Okinawa and translations of Okinawan literature. The book OKINAWA: TWO POSTWAR NOVELLAS (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1989 reprinted 1996) includes the novella “Cocktail Party” on which the film is loosely based. Other collections of translations are SOUTHERN EXPOSURE: MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE FROM OKINAWA, co-edited with Michael Molasky (University of Hawaii Press, 2000) and ISLANDS OF PROTEST: JAPANESE LITERATURE FROM OKINAWA, co-edited with Davinder L. Bhowmik (University of Hawaii Press, 2016). THE OKINAWAN DIASPORA IN JAPAN: CROSSING THE BORDERS WITHIN (University of Hawaii Press, 2014) is a history of Okinawan migration to mainland Japan with interviews and written accounts of residents describing their experiences. Rabson was stationed as a U.S. Army draftee during 1967-68 at a base in Henoko, Okinawa that stored nuclear weapons.
