Week 6 discussion post

From my pint of view, the impacts of being labeled as spies, or national traitors by the state and military for international relations within Okinawa society are: first, Always being suspected by other people in the village or community, people who lives in the same community cannot trust each other. Second, people had to follow what the military asked to do. Just like what is mentioned in the text, “The idea of the ‘spy’ played a decisive role in the expansion of military law to the civilian population. Those who did not obey military law were identified as spies and executed” (Tomiyama, 128).

I think this impacted Okinawans’ treatment/views toward Korean women who we brought to the island as “comfort women” beginning in 1941, the Okinawans were afraid to be against the comfort women because of the Japanese military law.