A Bibliography of Humanities and Social Sciences Works
on the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands
Compiled by Daniel Long
Updates and corrections May 9, 2000

Works in Japanese

• Abbot, Joel (1854) Report of an Examination of the Bonin Group of Islands
• Abbot, Joel (1856) Report of a visit to the Bonin group of Islands, by Captain Joel Abbot, United States Navy: AMS Press (1967 reprint)
• Alexander, W. D. (ed.) T. Horton James (1907) The Sandwich and Bonin Islands: On the Importance of Settling the Sandwich Islands on the Plan of a Proprietary Government. Annual Report 15. Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society
• Arima, Midori (1990) An Ethnographic and Historical Study of Ogasawara/The Bonin Island, Japan
• Arima, Midori (1988) Historical Development of an Ethnic Group on Ogasawara/Bonin Island, Japan. A paper presented at American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings Arizona. Phoenix, Arizona
• Barr, Pat (1967) The Coming of the Babarians . London : Macmilan
• Beale, Thomas (1839) The Natural History of The Sperm Whale . London
• Beasley, W. G. (1951) Great Britain and the Opening of Japan. London: Luzac
• Beechey, Fredrick W. (1831) Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Bering's Strait. London
• Bigelow, Poultney (1923) Japan and her Colonies . London: Edward Arnold
• Blake, P. I. (Captain) (1838) Report from the Officer commanding H.M.S. Larne, on the occasion of her visit to the Bonin and Caroline islands, in regard to acts of violence committed on the natives by British subjects and particularly by the Master and crew of the cutter Lamton of Sydney: [57a]-140
• Blanch, Ken (1990) The Other Invasion . The Sunday Mail: 19
• Bordallo, Audrey (1965) The Bonins. Pacific Profile May. 10-?
• Bordallo, Audrey (1965) The Bonins. Pacific Profile June. 12-?
• Bower, Neal M. (1951) The Mariana, Volcano, and Bonin Islands. . Geography of the Pacific.: 205-235. New York : John Wiley and Sons
• Bretschneider, E. (1935) History of European botanical discoveries in China . Leipzig: Koehlers antiquarium
• Bullen, Frank T. (1947) The Cruise of the Cachalot round the world after sperm whales: 146-157. New York: Dodd, Mead
• Burkhardt, William (1983) Institutional Barries,Marginality,and Adaptation among the American-Japanese Mixed blood in Japan. Journal of Asian Studies 42.3: 519-544
• Cant, Gilbert () Home to Chichi Jima. Life's Reports
• Chamberlain, Basil Hall and W. B,Mason (1903) Murray's Handbook of Japan. London: Kelly and Walsh
• Chen, Edward I-te (1984) The Attempt to Integrate the Empire: Legal Perspective. The Japanese Colonical Empire 1895-1945: 240-274. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• Cholmondeley, Lionel Berners (1915) The history of the Bonin Islands from the year 1827 to the year 1876 and of Nathaniel Savory, one of the original settlers, to which is added a short supplement dealing with the islands after their occupation by the Japanese. London: Archibald Constable and co. ltd
• Clark, Ross (1979) In Search of Beach-la-mar towards a History of Pacific Pidgin English: University of Auckland
• Close, Upton (1933) Japan's Stronghold in the Pacific. New York Herald Tribune: 8 and 10
• Collinson, R. C. (1852) The Bonin Islands in 1851, Port Lloyd. Nautical Magazine March: 135-138
• Collinson, Richard (1889) Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise, on the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin's ships by Behring [sic] Strait, 1850-55: 110-118. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Limited
• DeChicchis, Joseph (1993) Language death in Japan. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Linguists: 133-136. Quebec: Universite Laval
• Dewar, James Cumming (1892) Voyage of the Nyanza, R. N. Y. C. being the record of a three years cruise in a schooner yacht in the Atlantic and Pacific and her subsequent shipwreck. London: W. Blackwood and Sons
• Dickins, F.V. and Ernest, Satow (1878) Notes of a Visit to Hachijo in 1878
• Dobson, Sebastian (1998) A Chronology of the Bonin Islands Japanse Language Research Center Reports 6: 21-29: Osaka Shoin Women's College
• Dossett, Doris (1954) Crater Island: Foreign Mission Society of General Baptists
• Dunbabin, Thomas (1923) White Japanese: Britain's Lost Colony of the Bonins. Naval Base Given Away.. The (Honolulu ?) Sun
• Eastland (1968) Providing for the Admission to the United States of Certain Inhabitants of the Bonin Islands. Report 1224
• Falk, JOC Jim (1967) Somewhere On A Bonin Isle.... Pacific Stars & Stripes Dec. 21. 9
• Falk, Jim (1968) Bonin Isles may become Japan's Hawaii. Pacific Stars & Stripes Jan. 21: A3-A5
• Findley,Gordon USNR (1958) A History of the Bonin-Volcano Islands Book2 1951-1958
• Gast, Ross H (1944) Bonin islands' story. With maps, old and new. [Monrovia, California]: Monrovia News-Post
• Gilman, Laselle (1944) Honolulu War Diary. The Honolulu Advertiser
• Goetze, Klaus@trans. (1987) The frigate Pallada. New York: St.Martin's Press
• Goldschmidt, Richard (1927) Neu-Japan; reisebilder aus Formosa, den Ryukyuinseln, Bonininseln, Korea und dem sudmandschurischen pachtgebiet.Mit 215 abbildungen und 6 karten [New Japan: travelogue from Formosa, the Ryukyu Islands, Bonin Islands, Korea and the south Manchurian protectorate, with 215 illustrations and 6 maps]. Berlin: J. Springer
• Goldschmidt, Richard (1927) Die Nachkommen der alten Siedler auf den Bonininseln [Descendants of the original settlers of the Bonins]. Die Naturwissenschaften 15: 449-453
• Goldschmidt, Richard (1980) The Descendents of the Old Settlers on the Bonin Islands. unpublished translation of Goldschmidt 1927. Berlin-Dahlem
• Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich (1958) Fregat "Pallada": ocherki puteshestviia. Leningrad: Izd-vo "Nauka," Leningradskoe otd-nie.
• Goodman, J. S. (1967) Development of a dialect of English-Japanese Pidgin. Anthropological Linguistics 9(6): 43-55
• Hachisuka, Masauji (1930) A journey to the Bonin Islands. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 1: 69-80
• Hammond, Blodwen and Mary Shepardson (1973) Uncle Charlie Washington: His Life, His Island, His People. Unpublished manuscript
• Hawks, Francis L. (1856) Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy: AMS Press (1967 reprint)
• Hayashida, Cullen T (1976) Identity, Race and the Blood Ideology of Japan: University of Washington
• Head, Timothy E.and Gavan Daws (1968) The Bonins - Island Of Contention. American Heritage 19.2: 58-64,69-74
• Horn, Stephen, W.trans. (1998) How the Japanese of the Edo Period Perceived the Ogasawara Islands. . Japanese Language Research Center Reports 6: 31-58: Osaka Shoin Women's College
• Ilza Veith (1945) The Strategic Bonins. Far Eastern Survey Vol. 14, No. 21: 307-309
• Inamura Hiromoto (1980) History & Historical Remains in the Ogasawara Islands (I). unpublished translation of _Rekishi Chiri_ 48.No.2: 15-22(231-238)
• Ion, Hamish (1997) Lionel Berners Cholmondeley:A Chaplain in Tokyo 1887-1921. Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, vol.2: 180-189. London: Japan Society of London
• James, Thomas Horton (1832) The Sandwich and Bonin Islands. A letter to a noble Lord, on the importance of settling the Sandwich and Bonin Islands,in the North Pacific Ocean, on the plan of a proprietary government; together with hints on the probability, in that case, of introducing British manufactures into the great empire of Japan. London: W. Tew
• Johnson, LCDR Dale W (1968) Genealogical chart: Bonin Islands to December, 1967, with pertinent historical notes
• Johnson, Mary-Lou (1965) A Honeymoon Island. unpublished manuscript
• Johnson, Samuel (1964) Navy's 'Mystery Base'in Bonins Irks Japanese. Chicago Tribute Sunday
• Kaempfer,Engelbert (1727) The History of Japan. London: privately printed
• Kawai, Shin (1968) The Return of the Ogasawara Islands. Japan Quarterly Vol.15(?), No.4 (?): 462-465
• Keesing, Roger M. (1988) Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate. : Stanford Univ Pr
• King, Rev. A.F. (1898) Hypa, the Centenarian Nurse. Mission Field November: 415-21: S.P.G (mentioned in Chom. 117)
• Kittlitz, F. H. (1844) Vier und Zwanzig Vegetations-Ansichten von Ku:stenlandern und Inseln des Stillen Ozeans; Aufgenommen in den Jahren 1827, 1828 und 1829 auf der Entdeckungsreise der kaiserlich-Russischen Corvette Senjawin unter Captain Lutke
• Kondo, Morishige (1980) Hen'you Bunkai-zu Kou (trans. Steffen Richards). unpublished translation of _Kondo Seisai Zenshuu_, vol 1. 1905
• Kublin, Hyman (1951) The Ogasawara Venture(1861-1863). Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 14: 261-284
• Kudlin, H. (1955) The Bonin Islands: An Essay on the Western LanguageLiterature. Kokusai Gaiko Zasshi (The Journal of International Law andDiplomacy) Vol. 54, No. 6: 1-16
• Kuykendall, Ralf S. (1927) A History of Hawaii
• Lay, G. Tradescant (George Tradescant) (1837) Trade with China [microform]: a letter addressed to the British public on some of the advantages that would result from an occupation of the Bonin Islands. London: Royston & Brown
• London, Jack (1895) Bonin Islands: An Incident of the Sealing Fleet of '93 . The High School Aegis 1,2. Oakland : Oakland High School
• London, Jack (1981) Bonin Islands, I -- Bonin Islands, II. Aegis (edited by James E. Sisson). Oakland, Calif: Star Rover House
• Long, Daniel (2000) Evidence of an English Contact Language in the 19th Century Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands. English World-Wide 20:2: 251-286: John Benjamins Publishing
• Lu:tke, Fredric (1835) Voyage Auther du Monde 1826-1829. Paris
• Matsui, Eitoshi (1968) Many Issues Await Solution Before Return Of Bonins Jan 17
• Matsui, Eitoshi (1969) The Ogasawaras Returned to Japan. New Japan 21: Mainichi Shimbun
• Morse, Hosea Ballou and Harley MacNair (1931) Far Eastern International Relations. Boston
• Muhlhausler, Peter (1998) Some Pacific Island Utopias and their Languages.. Plurilingualisme: 27-47
• Muhlhausler, Peter and Philip,Baker (1996) English-derived contact languages in the Pacific in the 20th century (excluding Austrlia). Trends in Lignuistics Documentation II,1: 497-531: Mouton de Gruyter
• Muhlhausler, Peter and Rachel,Trew (1996) Japanese language in the Pacific. Trends in Linguistics Documentation 13 Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas: 373-399: Mouton de Gruyter
• N.Y. Times (1971) Brinkmanship With Japan (editorial). New York Times April 14
• Nicholas, William H. (1946) American Pathfinders in the Pacific. National Geographic Society 89-5: 617-640
• Oda, Shizuo (1981) The Archaeology of the Ogasawara Islands. Asian Persp 24.1: 111-38
• Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OCNO) (1944) Civil Affairs Handbook: Izu and Bonin Islands . Washington D.C.: Navy Depertment
• Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OCNO) (1971) Records Relating to the Administration of theBonin-Volcano Island 1945-1968. Washington DC: Naval History Division Operational Archives
• Peard, George (1973) To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey
• Peattie, Mark R. (1988) Nan'yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia 1885-1945. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
• Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1886) A paper by Commodore M. C. Perry, U. S. N.,. New York: D. Appleton and company
• Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1968) The Japan Expedition 1852-1854. The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry : Smithsonian Institution Press
• Pesce, Dorothy Richard, USN (RET.) (1958) A History of the Bonin-Volcano Islands Book1 1830-1951
• Poos, Robert (no date) Unease Appears on Chichijima. (AP newspaper clipping)
• Preble, George Henry (1962) The Opening of Japan. A diary of Discovery in the Far East, 1853-1856. Oklahoma
• Price, Willard (1942) Hidden Key to the Pacific: Piercing the web of secrecy which long has veiled Japanese bases in the Mandated Islands. National Geographic 81.6: 759-785
• Price, Willard (1944) Springboards to Tokyo. National Geographic 86.4: 386-407
• Quin, [Captain] Michael (1837) Remarks on Peel Island, Bonin Groupe...' dated 9 August 1837. FO17/21
• Quin, [Captain] Michael (1856) Notes on the Bonin Islands. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 26: 232-235
• Remusat, Abel (1817) Description d'un groupe d'iles peu connues. Journal des Savans July: 387-396
• Remusat, Abel (1829) Nouveaux Melanges Asiatiques, 2 vols: esp. 1:153-170. Paris
• Richard, LCD Dorothy, E. (1957) United States Naval Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 1,2,3. Washington, D.C.: Office Chief of Naval Operations
• Rixey, Colonel Presley M (no date) Japanese Camouflage: Unpublished manuscript
• Robertson, Russell (1876) The Bonin Islands. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 4: 111-143. Tokyo
• Rodino (1969) Providing for the Admission to the United States of Certain Inhabitants of the Bonin Islands. Report;November 20, 91th Congress 1st Session 91-674
• Ruschenberger, William Samuel Waithman (1838) Narrative of a voyage around the world, during the years 1835, 36, and 37; including a narrative of an embassy to the Sultan of Muscat and the King of Siam: 298-313. London: Richard Bentley
• Sakanishi, Shio, ed (1940) A Private Journal of John Glendy Sproston, U.S.N.. Tokyo: Sophia University
• Salwey, Charlotte Maria (Birch) (1913) The island dependencies of Japan; an account of the Islands that have passed under Japanese control since the restoration, 1867-1912 (1973 reprint) : 74-87(esp. 74). Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources
• Sampson, Paul (1968) The Bonins and Iwo Jima Go Back to Japan. National Geographic 7: 128-144
• Schlachter, Barry J. (1970) The Ogasawara Islands, Japan's Hawaii. Japan Times Weekly Nov. 14
• Searls, Hank (1987) Kataki : a novel. New York: McGraw-Hill
• Sewall, John S. (1905) The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk. Adventures in the China Seas. Bangor, Maine
• Sharp, Andrew (1960) The Discovery of Pacific Islands. Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Shepardson, Mary (1977) Pawns of Power: The Bonin Islanders . The Anthropology of Power: 99-114. NY: Academic Press
• Shepardson, Mary (1998) The Bonin Islands: Pawns of Power
• Sheridan, Martin (1948) Bit Of New England In Pacific (Part 1). Worcester Sunday Telegram Oct. 10: 12-14
• Sheridan, Martin (1948) Bit Of New England In Pacific (Part 2). Worcester Sunday Telegram Oct. 17: 7-8
• Shimada, Bell Masayuki (1947) Japanese whaling in the Bonin Island area; a@preliminary report.. Tokyo: General Headquarters, Supreme Commanderfor the Allied Powers, Natural Resources Sect
• Shirakigawa, Tomiko (1967) What's Ahead for the Bonin Islanders?. The Japan Times Weekly Dec. 2;7.48
• Simpson, Alexander (1842) (report by the Honolulu British Consul date December 27, 1842)
• Standish, Robert (pseud. Digby George Gerahty) (1944) Bonin, a historical novel. New York: Macmillan Company
• Starbuck, Alexander (1878) History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876.. Waltham, MA: Privately printed
• Strong, Nathan O. (1978) Patterns of Social Interaction and Psychological Accommodation among Japan'sKonketsuji Population. Ph.D. Dissertation. Berkeley: University of California
• Tabohashi, Kiyoshi (1980) The Recovery of Islands of Ogasawara (trans. Henry Hiromichi Hoshino). unpublished translation of "Ogasawara no kaishuu" in _Rekishi Chiri_, 1922
• Tanabe, Taichi (1980) Diplomatic Documents of the Last Days of Tokugawa Goverment: The tour of Inspection of Ogasawara Islands (trans. Steffen Richards). unpublished translation of _Bakumatsu gaikoudan_
• Tanaka, Hiroyuki (1998) How the Japanese of the Edo Period Perceived the Ogasawara Islands Japanese Language Research Center Reports 6: 31-58
• Taylor, Bayard (1855) A Visit to India, China and Japan, in the Year 1853. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co.
• Treaster, J. B. (1969) G-Eye view of Vietnam. New York Times Magazine Oct 30: 108
• Tryon, Darrel T., Peter Muhlhausler, and Philip Baker (1996) English-derived contact languages in the Pacific in the 19th century (excluding Australia). Trends in Linguistics Documentaion 13 II,1: 471-495: Mouton de Gruyter
• U.S. Naval Historical Center, Operational Archives (1998) Series VIII, Records Regarding the Bonin-Volcano Islands, Contents list of boxes 097, 098, 099, 100, 101, 102: 60-63
• United States Office (1944) Izu and Bonin Islands
• United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas (1946) Field Survey of Japanese Defenses on Chiji Jima Retto : 3.5
• United States Pacific fleet and Pacific (1944) Information bulletin. Nanpo shoto ...: 33
• United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Far East and the Pacific (1959) To Authorize a Payment to the Government of Japan [microform] : hearings before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Far East and the Pacific, Eighty-Sixth Congress, first session, on Aug. 27, 28, 1959. Washington: U.S. G.P.O.
• United States. Office of Naval Intelligence (1942) Geographical monograph on Formosa, Nansei Shoto (Southwestern Islands) and Nanpo Shoto. Washington: office of the Chief of NavalOperations, Division of Naval Intelligence
• Wagenseil, Ferdinand (1962) Rassengemischte Bevolkerung der japanischen Bonin-Inseln; ihre Anthropologie und Genetik [The Mixed-race Population of the Japanese Bonin Islands: Their Anthropology and Genetics]. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart
• Warburg, Otto (1887) Eine Reise nach den Bonin und Volkano Inseln. Verhandlungen der deutschen Gesellschaft fur [umlaut] Erdkunde 18.3,4
• White, Sydney (1966) No Flag for this Land of 'Exiles'. This is Japan. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Publishing
• Wildes, Harry Emerson (1937) Aliens in the East: A New History of Japan's Foreign Intercourse.. London
• Williams, Samuel Wells (1910) A Journal of the Perry Expedition to Japan (Japanese Translation exists). Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan Vol. 37, Part 2: p.29 (i-x 27-37 copy)
• (no author) (1965) A Look Inside A Secret U.S. Base. U.S. News & World Report July 29 (Aug. 23?). 66
• (no author) (1967) Still Need Bonins: DOD. Stars & Stripes June 1
• (no author) (1967) U.S. Wont't Return Bonins. Stars & Stripes May 26
• (no author) (1970) Speculators Snapping Up Land In Bonin Islands. The Daily Yomiuri
• (no author) (no date) Gov't Okays Survey Team for Bonins. (newspaper clipping)
• (no author) (no date) Bonins National Park Planned. (newspaper clipping)
• (no author) (no date) 3 Japanese Officials To See 2 Bonin Isles. (newspaper clipping)
• (unknown) (1844) Sketch of Bonin Islands. Friend, of temperance and seamen 2-1: 5. Honolulu
• (unknown) (1873) article on Bonin Islands. Japan Herald (newspaper) April ?
• (unknown) (1908) Pflanzen geographische Studien u:ber die Bonin- Insern. Journal of the Science 23: Imperial University of Tokyo
• (unknown) (1914) Japan Pilot or Sailing Directions for Ogasawara (Bonin) and Other Islands Southwards of Japan, the Japanese Islands and the Kuril Islands: 37-45. London
• (unknown) (1956) Bonin Isles: 178 Civil Residents seen as pawns in Power Game. New York Times: 4-5
• (unknown) (1964) Japan, Ryukyu-Inseln, Bonin-Inseln,Vulkan-Inseln. Lander und Volker. Luzern: Geographisch-Kulturelle Gesellschaft im Kunstkreis
• (unknown) (1966) Reportage by Reporters who Accompanied Family-Grave Visiting Group to Chichijima. Asahi
• (unknown) (1969) Providing for the Admission to the United States of Certain Inhabitants of the Bonin Islands. Congressional Record-House: 12378
• (unknown) (1970) Providing for the Admission to the United States of Certain Inhabitants of the Bonin Islands. Congressional Record-House: 1427
• (unknown) (1971) Households In Chichi Jima
• (unknown) (1984) Bush Racalls Exploits as Navy Pilot in War . New York Times Sep. 2
• (unknown) (no date) Minobe Gets Ogasawara Report: Emphasis Placed on Agriculture,Tourism. (newspaper clipping)

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For Internet resources, see:

Pascoe, Junko A. (1998) Information on Ogasawara Diving and Islands. http://pascoe.com/divejp/ogasainf.htm

A Bibliography of the Natural Sciences about the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands