Bibliography of Japanese history

Surveys and reference

• Allinson, Gary D. The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History.. 259 pp.
• Beasley, W. G. The Modern History of Japan
• Clement, Ernest Wilson. A Short History of Japan, 190pp
• Cullen, L. M. A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds
• Edgerton, Robert B. Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military.. 384 pp.
• Goedertier Joseph M. A. Dictionary of Japanese History. 1968.
• Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present ; also
• Hall, John Whitney. Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times
• Hane, Mikiso. Modern Japan: A Historical Survey 2nd ed Westview Press, 1992, 474pp
• Henshall, Kenneth. A history of Japan: from stone age to superpower
• Huffman, James L., ed. Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism.. 316 pp.
• Hunter Janet. Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. 1984.
• Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan
• McClain, James L. Japan: A Modern History.. 512 pp.
• Morley, James William, ed. Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide, Chapters by international experts who cover military policy, economic policy, cultural policy, and relations with Britain, China, Germany, Russia, and the United States; 635pp
• Mosk, Carl. Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth. M. E. Sharpe, 2001. 293 pp.
• Najita, Tetsuo. Japan: The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Japanese Politics, 200 year interpretation
• Perez, Louis G. The History of Japan 244pp
• Perkins, Dorothy. Encyclopedia of Japan : Japanese history and culture, from abacus to zori 410 pp.
• Reischauer, Edwin O. Japan: The Story of a Nation. 1990.
• Reischauer, Edwin O., and Albert M. Craig. Japan, Tradition and Transformation 1978.
• Sims, Richard. Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation, 1868-2000.. 395 pp.
• Stockwin, J. A. A. Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan.. 291pp
• Tipton, Elise. Modern Japan: A Social and Political History
• Totman, Conrad. A History of Japan.. 620 pp.; stress on environment
• * Totman, Conrad. Early Modern Japan: A Short History
• * Totman, Conrad. Japan before Perry
• * Totman, Conrad. Japan: An Environmental History
• Umesao, Tadao. An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2003. 208 pp.

  East Asian history

• Best, Antony, ed. The International History of East Asia, 1900-1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order. http://www.questia.com/read/126037623/the-international-history-of-east-asia-1900-1968.
• Chickering, Roger, and Stig Förster, eds. The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939. http://www.questia.com/read/118866896/the-shadows-of-total-war-europe-east-asia-and.
• Clyde, Paul Hibbert. The Far East: A History of the Impact of the West on Eastern Asia.. http://www.questia.com/read/10603492/the-far-east-a-history-of-the-impact-of-the-west.
• Clyde, Paul Hibbert. A History of the Modern and Contemporary Far East: A Survey of Western Contacts with Eastern Asia during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. http://www.questia.com/read/24448508/a-history-of-the-modern-and-contemporary-far-east.
• Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, and Anne Walthall. East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History
• Field, Andrew. Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 1919-1939: Preparing for War against Japan. http://www.questia.com/read/108790319/royal-navy-strategy-in-the-far-east-1919-1939-preparing.
• Holcombe, Charles. A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century
• Jensen, Richard, Jon Davidann, and Yoneyuki Sugita, eds. Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth Century. http://www.questia.com/read/122213996/trans-pacific-relations-america-europe-and-asia.
• Lipman, Jonathan N. and Barbara A. Molony. Modern East Asia: An Integrated History
• Nimmo, William F. Stars and Stripes across the Pacific: The United States, Japan, and Asia/Pacific Region, 1895-1945. http://www.questia.com/read/101042224/stars-and-stripes-across-the-pacific-the-united-states.
• Prescott, Anne. East Asia in the World: An Introduction
• Reid, Anthony. A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads
• Shavit, David. The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. http://www.questia.com/read/65510856/the-united-states-in-asia-a-historical-dictionary.

  to 1860

• Clulow, Adam. The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
• Friday, Karl F., ed. Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850
• Gerstle, C. Andrew. 18th Century Japan: Culture and Society
• Gramlich-Oka, Bettina, and Gregory Smits, eds. Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan. V. 1, Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia
• Hall, John W. ed. Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. IV, Early Modern Japan.. 831pp
• Hall, S. Japan before Tokugawa: political consolidation and economic growth, 1500-1650
• Hane, Mikiso. Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey
• Hanley, Susan B. and Kozo Yamamura. Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868
• Jansen, Marius B., ed. The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 5: The Nineteenth Century.. 828 pp.
• Jansen, Marius B., and Gilbert Rozman, eds. Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji
• Maruyama, Masao. Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan
• Sansom, Sir George B. A History of Japan, 3 vols. 1963, in dense, sophisticated prose ,
• Smitka, Michael, ed. The Japanese economy in the Tokugawa era, 1600-1868
• Williams, E. Leslie. Japan Before Meiji: A Short Cultural History
• Wilson, George M. Patriots and Redeemers in Japan: Motives in the Meiji Restoration.. 201 pp.
• Yamamura Kozo, ed. Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. III. Medieval Japan..
• Yamamura, Kozo. "Toward a Reexamination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867." Journal of Economic History 33 pp. 509–546.

  1860 to 1945

• Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. Japan's Foreign Relations 1542-1936: A Short History 560pp
• Black, Cyril, et al. eds. The Modernization of Japan and Russia: A Comparative Study
• Borton, Hugh. Japan's modern century, 1850 to 1950; university textbook, 524pp
• Cohen, Jerome B. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction 545 pp. , on 1940s
• Dickinson, Frederick R. "Toward a Global Perspective of the Great War: Japan and the Foundations of a Twentieth-Century World." American Historical Review 119#4 pp: 1154-1183. The role of World War I
• Dower, John W. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. Pantheon, 1986. 398 pp.
• Duus, Peter, ed. The Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century.. 866 pp.
• Havens, Thomas R. Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War II. 1978.
• Havens, Thomas R. "Women and War in Japan, 1937–1945." American Historical Review 80 : 913–934.
• Hunter, Janet. The emergence of modern Japan: an introductory history since 1853
• Iriye, Akira. Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945,
• Jansen, Marius B. and Rozman, Gilbert, eds. Japan in Transition, from Tokugawa to Meiji.. 485 pp. modernization models
• Keene, Donald. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912.. 928 pp.
• LaFeber, Walter. The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations.. 544 pp.
• Megarry, Tim, ed. The Making of Modern Japan: A Reader 34 essays by scholars; 591pp
• Nakamura, Takafusa, et al. eds. Economic History of Japan 1914–1955: A Dual Structure
• Perez, Louis G., ed. Japan at War: An Encyclopedia pp 477–98
• Sims, Richard. Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation, 1868-2000. Palgrave, 2001. 395 pp.
• Sugihara, Kaoru. Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949 - Vol. 1
• Thomas, James Edward. Modern Japan: a social history since 1868
• Ward, Robert E., ed. Political Development in Modern Japan: Studies in the Modernization of Japan
• Yoshimi, Yoshiaki. Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People. 360 pp.

  Occupation: 1945-1952

• Buckley, Roger. Occupation Diplomacy: Britain, the United States and Japan, 1945-1952.. 294 pp.
• Cohen, Jerome B. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction 545 pp.
• Cohen, Theodore. Remaking Japan: The American Occupation as New Deal.. 526 pp.
• Cook, Haruko Taya, and Theodore Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History 1992.
• Dower, John. Japan in War and Peace 1993.
• Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II.. 688 pp.
• Eldridge, Robert. The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem: Okinawa in Postwar US-Japan Relations, 1945-1952
• Finn, Richard B. Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan.. 413 pp.
• Hane, Mikiso. Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945
• Harvey, Robert. American Shogun: General MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito, and the Drama of Modern Japan.. 480 pp.
• Hellegers, Dale M. We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution.. 826 pp.
• Hewes Jr., Laurence I. Japan -- Land and Men: An Account of the Japanese Land Reform Program, 1945-51 154 pgs.
• Hirano, Kyoko. Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: The Japanese Cinema under the American Occupation, 1945-1952.. 400 pp.
• Koseki, Shoichi. The Birth of Japan's Postwar Constitution.. 257 pp
• Koshiro, Yukiko. Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan.. 295 pp.
• Molasky, Michael S. The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory.. 244 pp.
• Moore, Ray A. and Robinson, Donald L. Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur.. 409 pp.
• Orbaugh, Sharalyn. Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity.. 515 pp.
• Sandler, Mark, ed. The Confusion Era: Art and Culture in Japan during the Allied Occupation, 1945-52.. 112 pp.
• Schonberger, Howard B. Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952
• Schaller, Michael. The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia
• Shibata, Masako. Japan and Germany under the US Occupation: A Comparative Analysis of Post-War Education Reform.. 212 pp.
• Sodei, Rinjiro. Dear General MacArthur: Letters from the Japanese during the American Occupation.. 308 pp., primary sources
• Takemae, Eiji. Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy.. 800 pp.
• VanStaaveren, Jacob. An American in Japan, 1945-1948: A Civilian View of the Occupation.. 286 pp. primary course
• Ward, Robert E. and Yoshikazu, Sakamoto. Democratizing Japan: The Allied Occupation.. 456 pp.
• Williams, Justin, Sr. Japan's Political Revolution Under MacArthur: A Participant's Account.. 317 pp. primary source
• Yoshida, Shigeru. The Yoshida Memoirs: The Story of Japan in Crisis 1961, primary source

  Since 1952

• Allinson, Gary D. Japan's Postwar History.. 208 pp.
• Beauchamp, Edward R., ed. Education and Schooling in Japan since 1945
• Chapman, J.W.M., Reinhard Drifte, and Ian T.M. Gow, eds. Japan's Quest for Comprehensive Security: Defence-Diplomacy-Dependence
• Duus, Peter, ed. The Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century.. 866 pp.
• Hane, Mikiso. Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945
• Hook, Glenn D. et al. Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security
• LaFeber, Walter. The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations.. 544 pp., The standard history
• Neary, Ian. Leaders and leadership in Japan
• Scalapino, Robert A., ed. The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan
• Shinoda, Tomohito. Contemporary Japanese Politics: Institutional Changes and Power Shifts
• Sims, Richard. Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation, 1868-2000. Palgrave, 2001. 395 pp.
• Sugihara, Kaoru. Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949 - Vol. 1
• Sumiya, Mikio, ed. A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy.. 662 pp.
• Van Wolferen, Karel. The enigma of Japanese power: People and politics in a stateless nation A that

  Cultural and social history

• Craig, Albert M.; Shively, Donald H. Personality in Japanese History
• Dore, R. P. Aspects of Social Change in Modern Japan
• Dumoulin, Heinrich. Zen Buddhism: A History. Vol. 2. Japan.. 509 pp.
• Duus, Peter, ed. The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents.. 226 pp.
• Earhart, H. Byron. Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity.
• Guttmann, Allen and Thompson, Lee. Japanese Sports: A History.. 368 pp.
• Hanley, Susan B. and Kozo Yamamura. Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868
• Harootunian, Harry. History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life.. 182 pp.
• Keene, Donald. Japanese Literature: An Introduction for Western Readers
• Morris, Ivan. The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
• Kitagawa Joseph M. Religion in Japanese History. 1966.
• Kuitert, Wybe. Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art. 283 pp.
• Leiter, Samuel L. A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance.. 430 pp.
• Mason, Penelope. History of Japanese Art.. 431 pp.
• Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. A History of Japanese Economic Thought
• Munsterberg, Hugo. The Arts of Japan: An Illustrated History
• Roberts, Laurance P. A. Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Tokyo: 1976.
• Sansom, Sir George B. Japan, A Short Cultural History. 1978.
• Siever, Sharon Flowers in Salt: The Beginning of Feminine Consciousness in Modern Japan
• Standish, Isolde. A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film.. 452 pp.
• Tonomura, Hitomi; Walthall, Anne; and Haruko, Wakita. Women and Class in Japanese History.
• Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi. Modern Japanese Thought.. 403 pp.
• Varley, Paul Herbert. Japanese Culture: 4th Edition. Honolulu, 2000.

  Economic history

• Allen, George. Short Economic History of Modern Japan
• Cohen, Jerome B. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction 545 pp. , on 1940s
• Black, Cyril, ed. The Modernization of Japan and Russia: A Comparative Study
• Ericson, Steven J. The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan.
• Ferris, William W. Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History
• Flath, David. The Japanese Economy, On current conditions.
• Gordon, Andrew, ed. Postwar Japan as History, pp 99–188, 259-292
• Hayami, Akira; Saito, Osamu; and Toby, Ronald P., eds. The Economic History of Japan, 1600-1990. Vol. 1: Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859.. 420 pp.
• Hewes Jr., Laurence I. Japan -- Land and Men: An Account of the Japanese Land Reform Program, 1945-51 154 pgs.
• Kelley, Allen C. and Jeffrey G. Williamson, ed. Lessons from Japanese Development
• Kornicki, Peter F., ed. Meiji Japan: Political, Economic and Social History 1868–1912 1336 pages of scholarly articles
• Kozo, Yamamura, and Yasuba Yasukichi, eds. The Political Economy of Japan: Volume 1—The Domestic Transformation
• Lechevalier, Sébastien, ed. The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism on 1980-2012
• Morikawa, Hidemasa. A History of Top Management in Japan: Managerial Enterprises and Family Enterprises
• Morley, James William, ed. Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide, covers Japan's economic foreign policies, 1868-1893, pp 118-52
• Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. History of Japanese Economic Thought
• Nakamura, Takafusa, et al. eds. The Economic History of Japan: 1600–1990: Volume 1: Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600–1859 ; Volume 3: Economic History of Japan 1914–1955: A Dual Structure,
• Nakamura, James. Agricultural Production and the Economic Development of Japan, 1873–1922
• Odagiri, Hiroyuki and Akira Goto; Technology and Industrial Development in Japan: Building Capabilities by Learning, Innovation, and Public Policy
• Ohtsu, Makoto. Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000.. 459pp.
• Patrick, Hugh, Sooned. Japanese Industrialization and Its Social Consequences
• Rosovsky, Henry. "Rumbles in the Rice Fields," Journal of Asian Studies : vol. 27, No. 2 pp 347–60.
• Smitka, Michael, ed. The Japanese economy in the Tokugawa era, 1600-1868
• Tolliday, Steven. The Economic Development of Modern Japan, 1868–1945: From the Meiji Restoration to the Second World War, 1376pp; reprints 50 scholarly articles
• Yamamura, Kozo. "Toward a Reexamination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867." Journal of Economic History 33#3 pp: 509-546.

  Foreign policy

• Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. Japan's Foreign Relations 1542-1936: A Short History 560pp
• Beasley, William G. Japanese Imperialism, 1894–1945
• Burns, Richard Dean, and Edward Moore Bennett. Diplomats in Crisis: United States-Chinese-Japanese Relations, 1919-1941 ; bibliography
• Cooney, Kevin J. Japan's Foreign Policy Since 1945
• Hook, Glenn D. et al. Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security
• Inoguchi, Takashi. Japan's foreign policy in an era of global change
• Iriye, Akira. Japan and the wider world: from the mid-nineteenth century to the present
• Jung-Sun, Han. "Rationalizing the Orient: The" East Asia Cooperative Community" in Prewar Japan." Monumenta Nipponica : 481-514.
• Lafeber, Walter. The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations, a standard scholarly history
• Langdon, Frank. Japan's foreign policy
• Langer, William L. The diplomacy of imperialism: 1890-1902, world diplomatic history
• Maslow, Sebastian, Ra Mason and Paul O’Shea, eds. Risk State: Japan’s Foreign Policy In An Age Of Uncertainty 202pp
• Morley, James William, ed. Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide, comprehensive coverage of diplomatic & military & cultural relations
• Nish, Ian Hill. The origins of the Russo-Japanese war
• Nish, Ian. Japanese Foreign Policy, 1869-1942: Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka
• Nish, Ian. "An Overview of Relations between China and Japan, 1895–1945." China Quarterly 124 : 601-623.
• Scalapino, Robert A., and Edwin O. Reischauer, eds. The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan
• Shimamoto, Mayako, Koji Ito, and Yoneyuki Sugita. Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy
• Sun, Youli, and You-Li Sun. China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931-1941
• White, John Albert. The Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War

  Military history

• Drea, Edward J. Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853 - 1945
• Edgerton, Robert B. Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military
• Farris, William Wayne. Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500–1300
• Field, Andrew. Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 1919-1939: Preparing for War against Japan. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2003. http://www.questia.com/read/108790319/royal-navy-strategy-in-the-far-east-1919-1939-preparing.
• Friday K. F. "Bushido or Bull? A Medieval Historian's Perspective on the Imperial Army and the Japanese Warrior Tradition," The History Teacher 27:339–349,
• Harries, M. and S. Harries. Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army.
• Morley, James William, ed. Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide, Covers " Japan's military foreign policies.", pp 3-117
• Nitobe Inazō.
• Perez, Louis G., ed. Japan at War: An Encyclopedia. http://www.questia.com/read/124408036/japan-at-war-an-encyclopedia.
• Steinberg, John W., Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye, Shinji Yokote, and David Wolff, eds. The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero. Boston: Brill, 2005. http://www.questia.com/read/109885932/the-russo-japanese-war-in-global-perspective-world.
• Turnbull, Stephen. War in Japan: 1467–1615. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.

  Online books

• Borton, Hugh. Japan since 1931, Its Political and Social Developments. New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1940. http://www.questia.com/read/74009762/japan-since-1931-its-political-and-social-developments.
• Checkland, Olive. Japan and Britain after 1859: Creating Cultural Bridges. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. http://www.questia.com/read/109231341/japan-and-britain-after-1859-creating-cultural-bridges.
• Cullen, L. M. A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003. http://www.questia.com/read/106045491/a-history-of-japan-1582-1941-internal-and-external.
• Ellington, Lucien. Japan. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2009. http://www.questia.com/read/124028165/japan.
• Goodman, Roger, and Kirsten Refsing, eds. Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan. New York: Routledge, 1992. http://www.questia.com/read/103896099/ideology-and-practice-in-modern-japan.
• Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. http://www.questia.com/read/103548936/a-modern-history-of-japan-from-tokugawa-times-to.
• Harootunian, Harry. Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. http://www.questia.com/read/100341854/overcome-by-modernity-history-culture-and-community.
• Hishida, Seiji G. The International Position of Japan as a Great Power. New York: Columbia University Press, 1905. http://www.questia.com/read/53190778/the-international-position-of-japan-as-a-great-power.
• Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2000. http://www.questia.com/read/120041638/the-making-of-modern-japan.
• Kerbo, Harold R., and John A. McKinstry. Who Rules Japan?: The Inner Circles of Economic and Political Power. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995. http://www.questia.com/read/27101625/who-rules-japan-the-inner-circles-of-economic-and.
• Kreiner, Josef, Ulrich Möhwald, and Hans Dieter Ölschleger, eds. Modern Japanese Society. Boston: Brill, 2004. http://www.questia.com/read/117553459/modern-japanese-society.
• Large, Stephen S. Emperor Hirohito and Shōwa Japan: A Political Biography. New York: Routledge, 1992. http://www.questia.com/read/103444135/emperor-hirohito-and-sh-wa-japan-a-political-biography.
• McCune, Shannon Boyd-Bailey, Guy Harold Smith, and Dorothy Good. Japan, a Geographical View. New York: American Geographical Society, 1943. http://www.questia.com/read/59260838/japan-a-geographical-view.
• McLaren, Walter Wallace. A Political History of Japan during the Meiji Era, 1867-1912. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1916. http://www.questia.com/read/1331601/a-political-history-of-japan-during-the-meiji-era.
• Moore, Joe, ed. The Other Japan: Conflict, Compromise, and Resistance since 1945. New ed. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. http://www.questia.com/read/24184430/the-other-japan-conflict-compromise-and-resistance.
• Nish, Ian. Japanese Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. http://www.questia.com/read/101333661/japanese-foreign-policy-in-the-interwar-period.
• Norman, E. Herbert. Japan's Emergence as a Modern State: Political and Economic Problems of the Meiji Period. New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1940. http://www.questia.com/read/23188094/japan-s-emergence-as-a-modern-state-political-and.
• O'Brien, Phillips Payson, ed. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-22. New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. http://www.questia.com/read/107566266/the-anglo-japanese-alliance-1902-22.
• Perez, Louis G. Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties. Madison, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1999. http://www.questia.com/read/98561731/japan-comes-of-age-mutsu-munemitsu-and-the-revision.
• Shimazu, Naoko. Japan, Race, and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919. London: Routledge, 1998. http://www.questia.com/read/108283632/japan-race-and-equality-the-racial-equality-proposal.
• Sugihara, Kaoru, ed. Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. http://www.questia.com/read/110053108/japan-china-and-the-growth-of-the-asian-international.
• Tipton, Elise K. Modern Japan: A Social and Political History. London: Routledge, 2002. http://www.questia.com/read/102837560/modern-japan-a-social-and-political-history.
• Treat, Payson J. Japan and the United States, 1853-1921. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1928. http://www.questia.com/read/626547/japan-and-the-united-states-1853-1921.
• Yokoi, Noriko. Japan's Postwar Economic Recovery and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1948-1962. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. http://www.questia.com/read/109401495/japan-s-postwar-economic-recovery-and-anglo-japanese.

  Historiography

• Allinson, Gary D. The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History.. 259 pp.
• Beasley W. G., and E. G. Pulleyblank, eds. Historians of China and Japan. 1961.
• Cullen, L. M. A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds pp 302–20.
• Hardacre, Helen and Kern, Adam L., eds. New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan.. 782 pp.
• Wray, Harry, and Hilary Conroy, eds. Japan Examined: Perspectives on Modern Japanese History, historiography

  Scholarly journals

• East Asian History
• Journal of Japanese Studies
• Korean Studies
• Monumenta Nipponica, Japanese studies
• Sino-Japanese Studies
• Social Science Japan Journal

  Primary sources

• full text of useful travel guide
• Cook, Haruko Taya and Cook, Theodore F. eds. Japan at War: An Oral History.. 504 pp., World War II homefront
• Lu, David J. Japan: A Documentary History: V. 1: The Dawn of History to the Late Eighteenth Century ; Japan: A Documentary History: V. 2: The Late Tokugawa Period to the Present
• Huffman, James L. ed. Modern Japan: A History in Documents. http://www.questia.com/read/119419250/modern-japan-a-history-in-documents.
• Tsunoda, Ryusaku, W. T. de Bary, and Donald Keene, eds. Sources of Japanese Tradition. 1958.
• Yoshida, Shigeru. The Yoshida Memoirs: The Story of Japan in Crisis 1961, on Occupation, 1945–51