Okinawa Bibliography

A recommended bibliography for Okinawa scholars:

Asao, Makoto and Amano, Ikuo (1972), ‘Education and Japan’s Modernization’, Tokyo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Cameron, Meribeth E., Mahoney, Thomas H. D., and McReynolds, George E. (1952), ‘China, Japan, and the Powers’, New York, Ronold Press

Chamberlain, Basil Hall (1895), ‘Essay in Aid of a Grammar and Dictionary’, Tokyo and London, Asiatic Society of Japan

Creighton, Millie (1997), ‘Soto and Uchi ‘Others’: imaging diversity’, in, Weiner, Michael (1997), Japan’s Minorities – The Illusion of Homogeneity, London and New York, Routledge

Fairbanks, John King (1987), ‘The Great Chinese Revolution, 1800-1985’, New York, Harper & Row

Glacken, G.J. (1959), ‘A Study of Okinawan Village Life’, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press

Ingold, Tim (1994), ‘Introduction to Social Life’, in, Poole, Fitz John Porter (1994), ‘Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life’, London and New York, Routledge

Japan Quarterly Editorial Staff (1968), ‘The Asahi Shimbun’s Public Opinion Survey,’ Japan Quarterly, Vol. 15. No 1, January-March

Kerr, G.H. (1958), ‘Okinawa: History of an Island People’, Ruthland, Vermont, Tuttle Publishers

Lebra, William (1966), ‘Okinawan Religion’, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press

Lett, James (1987), ‘The Human Enterprise-A Critical Introduction to Anthropological Theory’, Boulder and London, Westview Press

Nakachi, Kiyoshi (1989), ‘Ryukyu-U.S.-Japan Relations 1945-1972’, Philippine, Abiva Publishing House, INC.

Nakachi, Kiyoshi(1996), ‘Ryukyu Islands and Okinawans, Sightseeing and Lifestyle’, Naha, Japan, Okinawa Times Press

Ota, Masahide (1984), ‘The Battle of Okinawa’, Tokyo, Kume Publishing Co.,

Poole, Fitz John Porter (1994), ‘Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life’, London and New York, Routledge

Purves, John Michael (1998), ‘Contemporary Okinawan Politics’, Okinawa, Internet address, http://www2.gol.com/users/johnrach

Purves, John Michael (1998), ‘The Okinawan Economy’, Okinawa, Internet address, http://www2.gol.com/users/johnrach

Sawada, Kiyoshi (1997), ‘Okinawa: Landscape of Minds’, SEA Publishing Department, Naha, Japan

Sakihara, Mitsugu (1987), ‘A Brief History of Early Okinawa Based on the Omoro Soshi’, Tokyo, Honpo Shoseki Press

Spradley, James P. (1979), The Ethnographic Interview, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Taira, Koji (1997), ‘Troubled National Identity: Okinawans’, in, Weiner, Michael (1997), Japan’s Minorities – The Illusion of Homogeneity, London and New York, Routledge

(Unknown author) ‘American Influence on Okinawan Culture Before 1972’, Washington, DC, U.S. State Department

Warner, Gordon (1972), History of Education in Postwar Okinawa, Tokyo, Nihon Bunka Kagakusha

Weiner, Michael (1997), Japan’s Minorities – The Illusion of Homogeneity, London and New York, Routledge