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Sarah Wilkowske: My research focused on the effect of American forces in Japan in the 1960s, specifically concerning the military base in Sasebo as it was portrayed in Murakami Ryū’s Sixty-Nine. My research followed the direct characterization of the base as well as the way the base’s presence indirectly influenced the characters’ relationship with confrontation as a parallel to Japan’s subordinate independence during this time.