Akamine Mamoru

• Japanese: 赤嶺守 (Akamine Mamoru)

Akamine Mamoru is a historian of the premodern Ryûkyû Kingdom, and a professor at the University of the Ryukyus.

He studied at Meiji University before earning his doctorate at Taiwan National University.

Selected Publications

• Akamine Mamoru, Lina Terrell (trans.), Robert Huey (ed.), The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia, University of Hawaii Press (2017).
• Akamine Mamoru, Ryûkyû ôkoku - higashi Ajia no kônâsutôn 琉球王国 -東アジアのコーナーストーン, Kodansha (2004).

References

• Lina Terrell, "Translator's Note," in The Ryukyu Kingdom, UH Press (2017), ix.