Dealing with the movement of people and goods between Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa and colonial Taiwan from 1920s to 1944, this paper examines the process in which the episteme of "modernity" had been formed through the interaction betw...
This study aims at presenting some concrete features of Kohama, a Ryukyuan traditional settlement, in order to illustrate"Personality"of place, which may be considered as the whole dynamic relation of life and land. Attempts have been...
The Ryukyu Archipelago is located between Kyushu and Formosa and consists of seven groups, namely from north to south, Osumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, Mi...