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Nature

Okinawa dai hyakka jiten (Okinawa encyclopedia). 3 vol. + suppl. Naha-shi: Okinawa Taimususha, 1983.
沖縄大百科事典 (Okinawa encyclopedia). 3 vol. +  suppl. 奈良市: 沖縄タイムス社, 1983.Call #: DS894.99.O372 O422 1983

Takahashi, Hideo, et al. eds. Sairei gyōji Okinawa-ken. Tokyo: Ōfūsha, 1992.
高橋秀雄, et al, eds. 祭礼行事・沖縄県. 東京: 桜楓社, 1992.
Call #: GT4884.A3 O46 1992

 Religion

Lebra, William P. Okinawan religion: belief, ritual, and social structure. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1966.
Call #: BL2215.O4 L4

Ouwehand, Cornelius. Hateruma: socio-religious aspects of a South-Ryukyuan island culture. Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1985.
Call #: DS895.R94 O95 1985

Sered, Susan Starr. Women of the sacred groves: divine priestesses of Okinawa.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Call #: BL2215.O4 S46 1999

Smith, Allan H., ed. Ryukyuan culture and society: a survey.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1964.
Call # DS895 .R9

Tanigawa, Ken’ichi, ed. Nantō no shima. Vol. 9 of Nihon minzoku bunka shiryō shūsei.  Tokyo: San’ich Shobō, 1989.
谷川健一, ed.  南島の村落. Vol. 9 of日本民俗文化資料集成. 東京: 三一書房, 1989.
Call #: DS894.99.O374 N393 1989

Wakugami, Motoo. Okinawa minzoku bunkaron: saishi, shinkō, utaki. Okinawa-ken Ginowan-shi: Yōju Shorin, 2000.
湧上元雄. 沖縄民俗文化論 : 祭祀・信仰・御獄. 沖縄県宜野湾市: 容樹書林, 2000.
Call #: BL2215.O39 W35 2000

 History

Iha, Fuyū. Okinawa joseishi. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2000.
伊波普猷. 沖縄女性史. 東京: 平凡社, 2000.
Call #: HQ1764.O44 137 1970

Kerr, George H. Okinawa, the history of an island people.  Boston: Tuttle Publisher, 2000.
Call #: DS894.99.O375 K46 2000
Ōta, Masahide and Ikezawa Natsuki. Okinawa kara hajimaru (Our Okinawa).  Tokyo: Sh¯ueisha, 1998.

大田昌秀, 池澤夏樹. 沖縄からはじまる (Our Okinawa)東京: 集英社, 1998.
Call #: DS894.99.O3785 O83 1998

Pearson, Richard J. Archaeology of the Ryukyu Islands: a regional chronology from 3000 B.C. to the historic period.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1969.
Call #: DS895.R9 P4

Smits, Gregory. Visions of Ryukyu: identity and ideology in early-modern thought and politics.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
Call #: DS895.R95 S65 1999

Takara, Kurakichi. Ajia no naka no Ryūkyū Ōkoku.  Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 1998.
高良倉吉. アジアのなかの琉球王国. 東京: 吉川弘文館, 1998.
Call #: DS895.R97 T33 1998

---------------------, et al., eds. Atarashii Ryūkyū shizō: Araki Moriaki Sensei tsuitō ronshū. Okinawa-ken Ginowan-shi: Yōjusha, 1996.
---------------------, et al., eds. 新しい琉球史像-安良城盛昭先生追悼論集. 沖縄県宜野湾市: 容樹社, 1996.
Call #: DS895.R95 A83 1996

 Battle of Okinawa

Arasaki, Moriteru, et al. Okinawa zendo ga senjō ni natta.  Vol. 3 of Ryūkyū Okinawa shashin kaiga shūsei. Tokyo: Nihon Tosho Sent¯a, 1997.
新崎盛, et al. 沖縄全土が戦場になった. Vol. 3 of 琉球・沖縄写真絵画集成. 東京: 本図書センター, 1997.
Call #: folio DS895.R95 R97 1997 v. 3

Feifer, George. Tennozan: the Battle of Okinawa and the atomic bomb.  New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992.
Call #: D767.99.O45 F45 1992

Hallas, James H. Killing Ground on Okinawa: the Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
Call #: D767.99.O45 H35 1996

Hayashi, Hirofumi. Okinawasen to minshū.  Tokyo:  Ōtsuki Shoten, 2001.
林博史. 沖縄戦と民衆. 東京: 大月書店, 2001.
Call #: in process

Ōshiro, Masayasu, ed. Okinawa himitsusen ni kansuru shiry¯o. Vol. 3 of Jūgonen sensō gokuhi shiryōshū. Tokyo: Fuji Shuppan, 1987.
大城正康, ed. 沖縄秘密戦に関する資料. Vol. 3 of  十五年戦争極秘資料集. 東京: 不二出版, 1987.
Call #: D767.2 .J84 1987 v. 3

Yahara, Hiromihi. The Battle for Okinawa.  New York: J. Wiley, 1995.
Call #: D767.99.O45 Y33 1995

Wakaizumi, Kei. The best course available: a personal account of the secret U.S.-Japan Okinawa reversion negotiations. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press in association with Program on Education and Training, East-West Center, 2002.
Call #: E183.8.J3 W2413 2002

 US Occupation

Arasaki, Moriteru, et al. Beigun shihaika no Okinawa. Vol. 4 of Ryūkyū Okinawa shashin kaiga shūsei. Tokyo: Nihon Tosho Sentā, 1997.
新崎盛, et al. 米軍支配下の沖縄. Vol. 4 of 琉球・沖縄写真絵画集成.
東京: 日本図書センター, 1997.
Call #: folio DS895.R95 R97 1997 v. 4

Military Government (1945-1950). The Ryukyu Islands at a glance. S.l., 1953.
Call #: 915.281 R98 1953

Okinawa nenkan. 1959-1972. Reprint, Tokyo: Nihon Tosho Sentā, 1997.
沖縄年鑑. 1959-1972. Reprint, 東京: 日本図書センター, 1997.
Call #: DS895 .R9 O4

Shiels, Frederick. L. America, Okinawa, and Japan: case studies for foreign policy theory.  Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980.
Call #: JX4084.R9 S54 1980

Watanabe, Akio. The Okinawa problem; a chapter in Japan-U.S. relations. Carlton, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1970.
Call #: DS895.R95 W37 1970

 Post War

Ishihara, Masaie. Kūhaku no Okinawa shakaishi: senka to mitsubōeki no jidai.  
Tokyo: Banseisha, 2000.
石原昌家. 白の沖縄社会史: 戦火と密貿易の時代. 東京: 晩声社, 2000.
Call #: HJ7069 .I84 2000

Johnson, Chalmers, ed. Okinawa: Cold War island. Cardiff, CA: Japan Policy Research Institute; Albuquerque, NM: distributed by New Mexico U.S.-Japan Center, 1999. 
Call #: DS894.99.O3785 O3625 1999

Morris, Morton D. Okinawa: a tiger by the tail. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1968.
Call #: DS895.R9 M63 1969

Ryūkyū Daigaku Amerika Kenkyūkai, ed. Sengo Okinawa to Amerika: ibunka sesshoku no gojūnen (Postwar Okinawa and America: fifty years of cross-cultural contact). Naha-shi: Okinawa Taimususha, 1995.
琉球大学アメリカ研究会, ed. 戦後沖縄とアメリカ: 異文化接触の五十年 (Postwar Okinawa and America: fifty years of cross-cultural contact). 那覇市: 沖縄タイムス社, 1995
Call #: DS894.99.O37 S45 1995

 Diaspora

Arasaki, Moriteru, et al. Okinawa fukki kara jiritsu e. Vol. 5 of Ryūkyū Okinawa shashin kaiga shūsei. Tokyo: Nihon Tosho Sentā, 1997.
新崎盛, et al. 沖縄・復帰から自立へ. Vol. 5 of 琉球・沖縄写真絵画集成.
東京
: 日本図書センター, 1997.
Call #: folio DS895.R95 R97 1997 v. 5

Nakasone, Ronald Y., ed. Okinawan diaspora. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2002.
Call #: DS832.5 .O55 2002

 Language and Literature

Iha, Fuyū. Omorosōshi senshaku. Okinawa, Shuri-shi: Ishizuka Shoten, 1924.
伊波普猷. おもろさうし選釈. 沖縄県首里市: 石塚書店, 1924.
Call #: PL886.R92 O4X 1924

Kamida, Sōei. Ryūkyū bungaku josetsu. Tokyo: Shigensha, 1979.
嘉味田宗栄. 琉球文学序説. 東京: 至言社, 1979.
Call #: PL886.R9 K3 1979

Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo, ed. Okinawago jiten. Tokyo: Ōkurashō Insatsukyoku, 1963.
国立国語研究所, ed. 沖縄語辞典. 東京: 大蔵省印刷局, 1963.
Call #: East Asian Ref. PL691 .K6

Murayama, Shichirō. Ryūkyūgo no himitsu. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1981.
村山七郎. 琉球語の秘密. 東京: 筑摩書房, 1981.
Call #: PL693.R9 M8

Morioka, Kenji, Okinawa no bungaku. Tokyo: Tōkai Daigaku Shuppankai, 1967.
森岡健二. 沖縄の文学. 東京: 東海大学出版会, 1967.
Call #: PL886.R9 M86

Nakahara, Zenchiku and Hokama Moriyoshi, eds. Kōhon Omorosōshi. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1965.
仲原善忠, 外間守善, eds. 校本おもろさうし. 東京: 角川書店, 1965.
Call #: PL886.R92 O47 1967

Ōe, Kenzaburo. Okinawa nōto.  Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1970.
大江健三郎. 沖縄ノート東京岩波書店, 1970.
Call #: DS895.R9 O3 1972

Ōshiro, Tatsuhiro. Ōshiro Tatsuhiro zenshū. 13 vols. Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2002.
大城立裕. 大城立裕全集. 13 vols. 東京: 勉誠出版, 2002.
Call #: PL858 .S55 2002

Sakihara, Mitsugu. A brief history of early Okinawa based on the Omoro S¯oshi. Tokyo: Honpo Shoseki Press, 1987.
Call #: DS894.99.O37 S35 1987

 Art

Arasaki, Moriteru, et al. Katsute Okinawa wa dokuritsukoku de atta. Vol. 1 of Ryūkyū Okinawa shashin kaiga shūsei. Tokyo: Nihon Tosho Sentā, 1997.
新崎盛, et al. かつて沖縄は独立国であった. Vol. 1 of 琉球・沖縄写真絵画集成. 東京: 日本図書センター, 1997.
Call #: folio DS895.R95 R97 1997 v. 1

--------------------, et al. Nihon ni natta Okinawa. Vol. 2 of Ryūkyū Okinawa shashin kaiga shūsei. Tokyo: Nihon Tosho Sentā, 1997.
-------------------, et al. 日本になった沖縄. Vol. 2 of 琉球・沖縄写真絵画集成. 東京: 本図書センター, 1997.
Call #: folio DS895.R95 R97 1997 v. 2

Kanaseki, Hiroshi and Takamiya Hiroe, eds. Okinawa no rekishi to bunka: kaijō no michi tankyū. Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 1994.
金関恕 and 高宮廣衛, eds. 沖縄の歴史と文化: 海上の道探求. 東京: 吉川弘文館, 1994.
Call #: DS894.99.O375 O384 1994

Suntory Museum of Art. Minami no kuni no iro to dezain: Okinawa no some to maboroshi no hanaori.  Osaka: Suntory Museum of Art, 2002.
サントリー美術館. 南の国の色とデザイン:沖縄の染めと幻の花織. 大阪: サントリー美術館, 2002.
Call #: in process

 Music

Zabilka, Gladys. Customs and culture of Okinawa. Rutland, Vt.: Bridgeway Press, 1959.
Call #: 915.281 Z11c 1959

Shimabukuro, Zenpatsu. Okinawa dōyō shū. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1997.
島袋全發. 沖縄童謡集. 東京: 平凡社, 1997.
Call #: PL886.O542 S5 1972

 Food

Heshiki, Yoshiharu and Ehara Yoshimori. Okinawa Amami no i to shoku.  Tokyo: Meigen Shobō, 1974.
平敷令治 and 恵原善盛. 沖縄・奄美の衣と食. 東京: 明玄書房, 1974.
Call #: GT1560 .H47

“Nihon no Shokuseikatsu Zenshū Okinawa" Henshū Iinkai. Kikigaki Okinawa no shokuji. Vol. 47 of Nihon no shokuseikatsu zenshū. Tokyo: Nō-san-gyoson Bunka Kyōkai, 1988.
日本の食生活全集沖縄編集委員会. 聞き書・沖縄の食事. Vol. 47 of 日本の食生活全.
東京
: 農山漁村文化協会, 1988.
Call #: TX724.5.J3 N54 1984 vol. 47

Pitts, Forrest Ralph, W. P. Lebra and W. P. Suttles. Post-war Okinawa. Washington: Pacific Science Board, National Research Council, 1955.
Call #: DS894.99.O37 P58 1955

 Martial Arts - Karate

Black belt. Burbank, CA: Rainbow Publications, 1962-
Call #: GV1112 .B52

Morris, P. M. Vince. The Illustrated Guide to Karate. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979.
Call #: GV1114.3 .M66


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