... campaign to Ebon Atoll in the Marshall Islands. I argue that the journey of the Morning Star shows that missionaries viewed the Pacific neither as an impenetrable border, nor as a vast empty space. Rather, they saw it as a part of a “sea of islands” and as contiguous with the “missionary settler...

... consciousness was a project in which both Japanese and American postwar forces were complicit. Focusing on stories of Japanese amnesia and selective memory in the Marshall Islands, I explore the Marshallese notion of “closing the sea,” how U.S. power has long been a mediating factor in why Japanese forget...