Okinawa Studies in Taiwan under Japanese Rule: Focusing on the Use of the Word “Nantō”

• Main Author: Teshima, Takahiro
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Iha Fuyū; Japanese historiography; Kobata Atsushi; Okinawan identity; Ryukyu; Shidehara Taira; Yanagita Kunio
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss45/15
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In the modern period, certain research on Okinawa utilizing the noun “nantō,” which signified the southern islands, was known as Nantō studies. It accentuated Okinawa as the southernmost portion, or one component, of Japan, emphasizing Okinawa’s identity as a place that preserves old Japanese cultur...