202 books
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Okinawa Books
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 49,551 ratings — published 1981
Okinawa: A Decorated Marine's Account of the Last Battle of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,687 ratings — published 1995
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,317 ratings — published 2021
The Girl with the White Flag (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,300 ratings — published 1989
Okinawa: The History of an Island People (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.99 — 159 ratings — published 1958
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,166 ratings — published 2022
82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 932 ratings — published 2020
In the Woods of Memory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 111 ratings — published
The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 731 ratings — published 1992
Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 32 ratings — published
Above the East China Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,639 ratings — published 2014
Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 19 ratings — published 1999
Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 65 ratings — published 1995
Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 350 ratings — published
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.26 — 489 ratings — published 2020
Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 269 ratings — published 2020
Grenade (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 13,217 ratings — published 2018
The Twilight Warriors: The Deadliest Naval Battle of World War II and the Men Who Fought It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,164 ratings — published 2010
The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 625 ratings — published 2007
Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series) (Volume 0)
by (shelved 4 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.90 — 58 ratings — published 1996
Marines on Okinawa A Pictoral Record (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.76 — 5,419 ratings — published 2020
Okinawa: The Last Battle (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.12 — 472 ratings — published
Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.39 — 49 ratings — published 1996
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,080 ratings — published 1961
Hell from the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 297 ratings — published 2015
Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships: Okinawa, 1945 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.80 — 41 ratings — published 2008
Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa (The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 2006
Okinawa Kwaidan, True Japanese Ghost Stories and Hauntings (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.94 — 132 ratings — published 2013
Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.21 — 14 ratings — published 2003
Women of Okinawa: Nine Voices from a Garrison Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.28 — 68 ratings — published
The Battle For Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 4.03 — 200 ratings — published 1995
The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)
by (shelved 3 times as okinawa)
avg rating 3.10 — 10 ratings — published 1999
The Last of the Old Breed: An Oral History of the Final Marines from World War II (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 106 ratings — published
A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 146 ratings — published 1981
The Battle of Okinawa 1945: The Pacific War's Last Invasion (Images of War)
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avg rating 3.67 — 12 ratings — published
Night In The American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 262 ratings — published
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 523 ratings — published 2023
World War Two at Sea: The Last Battleships (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.96 — 23 ratings — published 2014
The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 31 ratings — published
Kamikaze: Japan's Last Bid for Victory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 17 ratings — published
Ancestors Worship Okinawa's Indigenous Belief System (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2000
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 269 ratings — published
The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,658 ratings — published 1967
Combat Command (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 23 ratings — published 1950
Nature, Ritual, and Society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series)
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avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2006
Writing Okinawa: Narrative acts of identity and resistance (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2008
Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos (English and Japanese Edition)
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avg rating 4.83 — 23 ratings — published
“. . . for any worthwhile martial arts skill to be pragmatic, it has to be done live, otherwise it is of limited or no use in actual combat”
― Shorinjiryu Karate : A Dojo Guide
― Shorinjiryu Karate : A Dojo Guide
“. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual”
― KARATE POWER Lethal power of Fajin
― KARATE POWER Lethal power of Fajin














