Chichi nu Haiya, Unma nu Hai follows Okinawa's wartime and postwar history through the voices of fourteen people from different times and positions. With the rhythms of Okinawan language and the saying that life is precious as its guide, it traces voices from a place layered with violence, memory, and time.

Okinawan language and fourteen voices excavate layers of memory spanning the war.

The eighth volume of a coming-of-age romantic comedy in which Teruaki, a transfer student in Okinawa, spends his school days with Hina Kyan, who speaks Uchinaguchi, and Kana Higa, who helps interpret it. When newcomer Kamitsuma begins to understand Hina, Teruaki, who thought he had adapted first, finds himself unexpectedly unsettled.

As the words become easier to understand, everyday life in Okinawa begins to look a little different.

A practical guide to the habits and perspectives of people who live and work in Okinawa, examined by an author with experience in the regional economy. Through everyday examples involving language, attitudes toward time, food culture, and ways of making requests at work, it offers newcomers a perspective on understanding daily life in Okinawa.

An introduction to the local sensibilities that shape life and work in Okinawa.

An accessible adventure guide in which Kidzy, who has lived close to Okinawa's sea and mountains, shares 47 lessons learned through play and life in nature. It introduces reading the weather, spending time safely by water and in forests, finding food, and preparing for injury or getting lost, inviting children to see the natural world as a teacher.

Nature is our teacher. Learn how to live alongside the sea and mountains through the wisdom of Okinawa Tarzan Kidzy.

90-sai no Obaa no Gokigen na Hitorigurashi was a nominated title in the Okinawa category of the 11th Okinawa Bookstore Grand Prize, not a prize recipient.

Okinawa no Obentoya-san Oen Guidebook was nominated in the Okinawa category of the 11th Okinawa Shoten Award, but it was not a prize recipient.

A guide to cafés and restaurants nestled in Okinawa's abundant greenery. It introduces mountain hideaways, renovated traditional homes, and seats overlooking both sea and foliage, inviting readers to step away from everyday bustle.

A guide for seeking a cup of coffee and a meal amid Okinawa's forests and greenery.

When the Bread Thief delivers bread to the Cocco family's farm, he learns that someone is ravaging the fields and sets out to investigate. As he lands in trouble, Ringo Kamen, a new heroine who seems both dependable and rather uncertain, appears in this humorous picture book set on a fruit farm.

Who is Ringo Kamen, the heroine who appears at the fruit farm and seems helpful yet somehow suspicious?

A memoir-like story that follows Totto's life after Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window. Moving between laughter and sorrow, it recounts her evacuation to Aomori after the Tokyo air raids, her school years, and the beginning of her career as an NHK actress.

From wartime evacuation to her first steps as an actress, Totto's memories illuminate a girl's coming of age and the shadows of her era.

A photo book that places images of postwar Okinawa alongside present-day photographs taken from the same locations and angles. Following 55 sites in Naha, Itoman, Okinawa City, Nago, and beyond, it reconsiders postwar history as it is inscribed in streetscapes, military bases, everyday life, and culture.

Paired fixed-point photographs trace the changing life and history of Okinawa.

This photographic book places images of postwar Okinawa alongside present-day photographs taken from the same locations and angles, tracing changes in the island's daily life, culture, and landscape. Across 55 fixed points, it reads historic events and ordinary lives as time preserved in place.

Stand in the same places, compare the photographs, and trace the time Okinawa has accumulated.

The official guidebook to Okinawa Television's food program Ageage Meshi introduces the appeal of Okinawan dining, centered on establishments selected through viewer voting. Covering meat, Okinawan cuisine, noodles and rice, seafood, bread, and sweets, it brings together restaurants associated with the program and the pleasures of local food.

An official guide to award-winning, viewer-selected restaurants and other Okinawan favorites that lift the spirits.

This book traces the career and coaching philosophy of Yukio Asato, a long-standing leader in Okinawan basketball. From the Hentona High School team's surprising run to third place at the Inter-High School Championships to his later challenges at Chatan High School, he reflects on tactics for overcoming adversity and on the commitment required to coach players wholeheartedly.

Follow the life and winning methods of a coach who showed that even a smaller team can compete on the national stage through the way it plays.

A humorous picture book that introduces the many everyday predicaments children suddenly face, arranged by their level of severity. This second volume adds the Big Predicament Graph, which considers six factors such as nervousness and frustration, turning familiar mishaps into laughter and discovery.

A cake is about to fall, and a lunch has been left behind. Looking at familiar predicaments, the book playfully considers why they happen and how to face them.

A sketch mystery in which nine drawings, growing more unsettling the longer you look at them, connect separate incidents and lead to a hidden truth.

The unease hidden in nine drawings slowly shifts the shape of the story.

A mystery that turns small distortions in everyday life into sharp reversals across five stories. It leaves you wanting to go back to the beginning and check the clues again.

Five traps flip the way ordinary daily life is seen.

A practical guide to traveling Okinawa by route bus. It shows how to enjoy the islands without a car, using information on stops and routes as a guide.

A book for enjoying Okinawa by route bus, even without a car.

A practical guide to traveling Okinawa by route bus. It shows how to enjoy the islands without a car, using information on stops and routes as a guide.

A book for enjoying Okinawa by route bus, even without a car.

A plant guide centered on Okinawa Main Island and Ie Island, covering familiar wild plants, garden trees, forest trees, and ferns. Photos and indexes make it easy to search by color and shape.

Photos and indexes make it easy to look up Okinawa's familiar plants.

A plant guide centered on Okinawa Main Island and Ie Island, covering familiar wild plants, garden trees, forest trees, and ferns. Photos and indexes make it easy to search by color and shape.

Photos and indexes make it easy to look up Okinawa's familiar plants.

Miyazawa Kazufumi traces 30 years of encounters with Okinawa's history, culture, and the song 'Shima Uta,' while searching for the words to speak about Okinawa through ten conversations.

Thirty years of facing Okinawa are traced through conversations and essays.

A humorous picture book that classifies the 'big troubles' children encounter by level and likelihood. It is fun for the way it turns trouble into laughter.

Even a difficult moment can become a little funny if you change the way you look at it.

A humorous picture book that classifies the 'big troubles' children encounter by level and likelihood. It is fun for the way it turns trouble into laughter.

Even a difficult moment can become a little funny if you change the way you look at it.

During the German-Soviet war, Serafima, a girl who lost her mother, chooses to become a female sniper. The novel portrays wartime violence and female solidarity with intense momentum.

The girl takes up a rifle for revenge.

Set in a snowbound mansion, a group invited by a mystery-loving magnate confronts a series of murders and a thirteen-year-old crime. A classic mystery that races through its setup, clues, and shocking finale.

At the glass tower, the tragedies keep coming.

A field guide to 734 kinds of fish and seafood from Okinawa, presented with photos and notes on fishing methods, ways of eating, and local names.

A photo guide to the fish of Okinawa's seas.

An official guidebook to Okinawa TV's food program 'Ageage Meshi,' collecting 100 selected restaurants along with interviews, staff talk, and coupons.

One hundred carefully selected spots from the show's restaurant visits.

An introductory book coedited by Yuki Maeda, Kei Konagura, and Michihiro Akiyama that rereads Okinawa's modern and contemporary history through its links to world and Japanese history. Fifteen chapters and twenty columns organize perspectives for thinking about issues facing Okinawan society.

A guide to rereading Okinawa's modern history as a way to think about the present.

An introductory book coedited by Yuki Maeda, Kei Konagura, and Michihiro Akiyama that rereads Okinawa's modern and contemporary history through its links to world and Japanese history. Fifteen chapters and twenty columns organize perspectives for thinking about issues facing Okinawan society.

A guide to rereading Okinawa's modern history as a way to think about the present.

An introductory book coedited by Yuki Maeda, Kei Konagura, and Michihiro Akiyama that rereads Okinawa's modern and contemporary history through its links to world and Japanese history. Fifteen chapters and twenty columns organize perspectives for thinking about issues facing Okinawan society.

A guide to rereading Okinawa's modern history as a way to think about the present.

The second picture book in Keiko Shibata's 'Pan Dorobo' series. After Pan Dorobo becomes a bread maker, a fake bread thief appears and sparks a new commotion at the forest bakery.

A fake bread thief appears, and another incident begins to brew at the forest bakery.

A picture book that traces the many "that much" moments of parenting while looking at the passage from childhood to adulthood.

It captures days that change before you know it, after wanting something so much.

A novel about a girl whose life revolves around her idol and begins to unravel when that idol is embroiled in scandal.

Akari's life, centered on supporting her idol, begins to fall apart.

An Akutagawa Prize-winning novel in which memory and reality gently overlap through the perspective of Minako, who helps organize materials at an Okinawan local history museum.

The contours of reality slowly shift as the story moves between a local history museum and a typhoon night.

The author's first essay collection traces life in Okinawa through sexual violence, base politics, and family life in her own words. Starting from personal experience, it quietly gathers the pain and hope of Okinawa.

A book that still tries to hand over the sea even after language has been shaken out of daily life.

A youth romantic comedy about a boy who transfers to Okinawa, becomes drawn to a classmate who speaks in dialect, and closes the distance with help from a friend who translates for him. It portrays Okinawan language and everyday life through breezy dialogue.

He cannot understand the dialect, but he falls in love anyway.

A humorous picture book in which a mysterious figure who appears to steal bread causes a commotion in the bakery and the forest. Its surreal plot and charming characters have made it popular with both children and adults.

The charmingly mischievous bread thief causes another incident today.

Set in a cake shop, this popular picture-book series entry shows the Noraneko Gundan causing their usual uproar. Marmee-chan's role and the tempting cake-making scenes are also highlights.

The Noraneko Gundan cannot sit still in front of delicious-looking cake.

A long-form mystery that slips into the dreams of patients who cannot wake, tying together medicine, fantasy, family memory, and the mystery of a serial murder. Drawing on Okinawan yuta and mabui-gumi motifs, it blurs the boundary between reality and dream.

Deep in the dream, it unravels why they keep sleeping.

A new Twelve Kingdoms novel published as an 18-year-later long-form return, a four-volume epic in which Taiki and Risai search for Gyouso. Its blend of war chronicle, court drama, and detective elements expands the core of the series through Taiki's growth.

The long-awaited story of Taiki surges forward across four volumes.

A sociological reportage that follows Okinawan delinquents over more than ten years, tracing their lives from bosozoku to demolition work, the sex industry, and moves to the mainland. It squarely shows the dual nature of 'jimoto' as both a support and a constraint.

A hometown can be a place of belonging and an inescapable force at the same time.

A visual reportage that traces the architecture and everyday life of Okinawa Island through photographs, interviews, and diagrams. From old houses to postwar buildings, it re-reads the island's record and memory.

It revisits Okinawa's life and history through its buildings.

A documentary on Okinawa's architecture that records the overlapping lives and cultures visible through the island's buildings.

In the shape of each building, Okinawa's memories of daily life accumulate.

A picture book that uses a girl's inner thoughts and humor to explore how to deal with irritation and anger.

It looks for ways to protect yourself without being swallowed by bad feelings.

A picture book about a nameless stray cat walking through town in search of its place in the world and what it truly wants.

Even without a name, being called by someone can reveal what matters most.

A picture book about a nameless stray cat walking through town in search of its place in the world and what it truly wants.

Even without a name, being called by someone can reveal what matters most.

An emergency photo book that traces Shuri Castle's history and condition through photographs and illustrations after the fire.

A book that reexamines Shuri Castle before the fire through photos and source materials.

A photo book that traces Shuri Castle's reconstruction and record through news photographs and articles.

A volume documenting post-fire Shuri Castle with news photographs and articles.

Treasure Island is a novel set in postwar Okinawa under U.S. rule, depicting friendship, loss, and resistance among young people. As they follow the shadow of a vanished hero, Okinawan postwar history intersects with individual fate.

The search for a vanished hero races through Okinawa's postwar years.

Nested Water Run Over by the Moon is a mystery set around Naha's Suijo Tenpo-dori. A young man fleeing home meets an old woman and an older part-time worker, then becomes involved in a drowning case as Okinawan postwar history and urban darkness overlap.

In Naha's Suijo Tenpo-dori, a young runaway follows Okinawa's hidden darkness.

This nonfiction work reconstructs Okinawa’s postwar red-light districts through interviews and archival research. It treats places such as Maehara Shinmachi as social histories of occupation, poverty, violence, and women supporting families.

Memories of erased districts reveal the deeper history of postwar Okinawa.

The second volume of an illustrated introduction to the Ryukyu Kingdom presents historical figures through portraits and visual materials. Its biographical format helps readers grasp the kingdom’s politics and culture.

Portraits and biographies guide readers through the Ryukyu Kingdom.

This picture book follows a boy who leaks a little pee and discovers that everyone has private worries. It turns a small vulnerability into humor and a gentle path toward self-acceptance.

A tiny embarrassment becomes a way to see everyone differently.

This picture book follows an Okinawan goat character who envies other animals before discovering his own strengths. Its cheerful read-aloud style conveys self-acceptance.

Wanting to be someone else leads to finding one’s own value.

This work is introduced as: 脳腫瘍を患う女性と研修医の出会いから始まる恋愛ミステリー。喪失の知らせを受けた主人公が、彼女の足跡を追う。

A work centered on 彼女は本当に死んだのか、愛と謎が横浜へ主人公を誘う。

This work is introduced as: 一九三五年の沖縄を撮影した写真を集め、戦前の暮らしや風景を記録する写真集。

A work centered on 戦火に失われる前の沖縄の日常が、写真としてよみがえる。

This work is introduced as: 絵を使わず、読み手が声に出す言葉の面白さだけで子どもを笑わせる翻訳絵本。

A work centered on 絵がないからこそ、声と言葉が物語になる。

A sharp, lightly told novel about a woman at ease in the standardized life of a convenience-store worker and the unsettling demands of social normality.

コンビニ人間 is a representative award-recognized work by 村田沙耶香.

A biographical nonfiction work on Sai Hiroyoshi of Okinawa Fisheries High School, looking beyond Koshien glory to the pressure and solitude behind it.

沖縄を変えた男 栽弘義 高校野球に捧げた生涯 is a representative award-recognized work by 松永多佳倫.

A picture book set in a smoke-covered town that has never seen the sky, where a boy's meeting with a man made of trash awakens a longing for the outside world.

えんとつ町のプペル is a representative award-recognized work by 西野亮廣.

火花 is an award-recognized work by Naoki Matayoshi. The entry is organized from the confirmed award title and author, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when an independent book, paperback, or collection edition can be verified. Magazine or venue identifiers have not been reused.

火花 is a work whose award record and publication status should be checked separately.

人生には「まさか」の坂がある is an award-recognized work by 安里賢次. The entry is organized from the confirmed award title and author, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when an independent book, paperback, or collection edition can be verified. Magazine or venue identifiers have not been reused.

人生には「まさか」の坂がある is a work whose award record and publication status should be checked separately.

ママがおばけになっちゃった! is an award-recognized work by Nobumi Saito. The entry is organized from the confirmed award title and author, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when an independent book, paperback, or collection edition can be verified. Magazine or venue identifiers have not been reused.

ママがおばけになっちゃった! is a work whose award record and publication status should be checked separately.

銀翼のイカロス is an award-recognized work by 池井戸潤. Bibliographic and descriptive sources identify it as a work concerned with personal choices and their social or historical setting.

銀翼のイカロス, read through its award history and bibliographic record.

おばぁタイムス is an award-recognized work by 大城さとし. Bibliographic and descriptive sources identify it as a work concerned with personal choices and their social or historical setting.

おばぁタイムス, read through its award history and bibliographic record.