Bibliography of Japanese history

The bibliography covers the main scholarly books, and a few articles, dealing with the History of Japan

Surveys and reference

* Allinson, Gary D. ''The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History.'' (1999). 259 pp
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* Beasley, W. G. ''The Modern History of Japan'' (1963)
* Clement, Ernest Wilson. ''A Short History of Japan'' (1915), 190p
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* Cullen, L. M. ''A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds'' (2003)
* Edgerton, Robert B. ''Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military.'' (1999). 384 pp.
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* Duus, Peter. ''Modern Japan'' (2nd ed 1998
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* Goedertier Joseph M. ''A Dictionary of Japanese History.'' 1968.
* Gordon, Andrew. ''A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present'' (2003
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* Hall, John Whitney. ''Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times'' (New York: Delacorte Press, 1970)
* Hane, Mikiso. ''Modern Japan: A Historical Survey'' 2nd ed Westview Press, 1992, 474pp
* Henshall, Kenneth. ''A history of Japan: from stone age to superpower'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
* Huffman, James L., ed. ''Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism.'' (1998). 316 pp.
* Hunter Janet. ''Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History.'' (1984)
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* Iwao, Seiichi. ''Biographical dictionary of Japanese history'' (1978
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* Jansen, Marius B. ''The Making of Modern Japan'' (2002
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* McClain, James L. ''Japan: A Modern History.'' (2001). 512 pp
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* Morley, James William, ed. ''Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide'' (Columbia UP, 1974), 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'' (1980), 200 year interpretatio
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* Perez, Louis G. ''The History of Japan'' (1998) 244pp
* Perkins, Dorothy. ''Encyclopedia of Japan : Japanese history and culture, from abacus to zori'' (1991
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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.'' (2001). 395 pp.
* Stockwin, J. A. A. ''Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan.'' (2003). 291pp * Tipton, Elise. ''Modern Japan: A Social and Political History'' (2002
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* Totman, Conrad. ''A History of Japan.'' (3rd ed 2014). 620 pp.; stress on environmen
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** Totman, Conrad. ''Early Modern Japan: A Short History'' (1995
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** Totman, Conrad. ''Japan before Perry'' (2nd paperback ed. 2008
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** Totman, Conrad. ''Japan: An Environmental History'' (2014)
* 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'' (London: Routledge, 2010).
* Chickering, Roger, and Stig Förster, eds. ''The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939'' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). * Clyde, Paul Hibbert. ''The Far East: A History of the Impact of the West on Eastern Asia.'' (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1948). * 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'' (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1937). * Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, and Anne Walthall. ''East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History'' (2 vol. 2008-2013)
* Field, Andrew. ''Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 1919-1939: Preparing for War against Japan'' (Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2003).
* Holcombe, Charles. ''A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century'' (2010)
* Jensen, Richard, Jon Davidann, and Yoneyuki Sugita, eds. ''Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth Century'' (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003).
* Lipman, Jonathan N. and Barbara A. Molony. ''Modern East Asia: An Integrated History'' (2011)
* Nimmo, William F. ''Stars and Stripes across the Pacific: The United States, Japan, and Asia/Pacific Region, 1895-1945'' (Praeger, 2001)
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* Prescott, Anne. ''East Asia in the World: An Introduction'' (2015)
* Reid, Anthony. ''A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads'' (Blackwell History of the World, 2015)
* Shavit, David. ''The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary'' (Greenwood Press, 1990).
* Vogel, Ezra F. ''China and Japan: Facing History'' (Harvard University Press, 2019) in-depth comparative history
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to 1860

* Clulow, Adam. ''The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan'' (Columbia University Press, 2014)
* Friday, Karl F., ed. ''Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850'' (Westview Press, 2012)
* Gerstle, C. Andrew. ''18th Century Japan: Culture and Society'' (Routledge, 2012)
* Gramlich-Oka, Bettina, and Gregory Smits, eds. ''Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan. V. 1, Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia'' (Leiden: Brill, 2010)
* Hall, John W. ed. ''Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. IV, Early Modern Japan.'' (1991). 831pp
* Hall, S. ''Japan before Tokugawa: political consolidation and economic growth, 1500-1650'' (Princeton University Press, 2014)
* Hane, Mikiso. ''Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey'' (1991)
* Hanley, Susan B. and Kozo Yamamura. ''Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868'' (1977)
* Jansen, Marius B., ed. ''The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 5: The Nineteenth Century.'' (1989). 828 pp.
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* Jansen, Marius B., and Gilbert Rozman, eds. ''Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji'' (Princeton University Press, 2014)
* Maruyama, Masao. ''Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan'' (Princeton University Press, 2014)
* Sansom, Sir George B. ''A History of Japan,'' 3 vols. 1963, in dense, sophisticated pros
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* Smitka, Michael, ed. ''The Japanese economy in the Tokugawa era, 1600-1868'' (Routledge, 2012)
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* Williams, E. Leslie. ''Japan Before Meiji: A Short Cultural History'' (University of Hawai'I Press, 2014)
* Wilson, George M. ''Patriots and Redeemers in Japan: Motives in the Meiji Restoration.'' (1992). 201 pp.
* Yamamura Kozo, ed. ''Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. III. Medieval Japan.'' (1990).
* Yamamura, Kozo. "Toward a Reexamination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867." ''Journal of Economic History'' 33(3) (1973) pp. 509–546
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1860 to 1945

* Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. ''Japan's Foreign Relations 1542-1936: A Short History'' (1979
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560pp.
* Bix, Herbert P. ''Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'' (HarperCollins, 2001), a standard biograph
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Pulitzer Prize.
** Bix, Herbert. "Emperor Hirohito's war." ''History Today'' 41.12 (1991): 12-19; short popular summary

* Black, Cyril, et al. eds. ''The Modernization of Japan and Russia: A Comparative Study'' (1977)
* Borton, Hugh. ''Japan's modern century'' (2nd ed 1970), 1850 to 1970; university textbook
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* Cohen, Jerome B. ''Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction'' (1949) 545 pp.
* Dickinson, Frederick R. "Toward a Global Perspective of the Great War: Japan and the Foundations of a Twentieth-Century World." ''American Historical Review'' (2014) 119#4 pp1154–1183. The role of World War I
* Dower, John W. ''War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War.'' Pantheon, 1986. 398 pp.
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* Duus, Peter, ed. ''The Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century.'' (1989). 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 (1975): 913–934
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* Hunter, Janet. ''The emergence of modern Japan: an introductory history since 1853'' (Routledge, 2014)
* Iriye, Akira. ''Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945'' (1981),
* Jansen, Marius B. and Rozman, Gilbert, eds. ''Japan in Transition, from Tokugawa to Meiji.'' (1986). 485 pp. modernization models
* Keene, Donald. ''Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World , 1852-1912.'' (2002). 928 pp.
* LaFeber, Walter. ''The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations.'' (1997). 544 pp.
* Megarry, Tim, ed. ''The Making of Modern Japan: A Reader'' (Greenwich University Press, 1995) 34 essays by scholars; 591pp
* Nakamura, Takafusa, et al. eds. ''Economic History of Japan 1914–1955: A Dual Structure'' (vol 3 2003)
* Perez, Louis G., ed. ''Japan at War: An Encyclopedia'' (2013) pp 477–9
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* Ravina, Mark. ''To stand with the nations of the world: Japan's Meiji restoration in world history'' (Oxford UP, 2020
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* Sims, Richard. ''Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation, 1868-2000.'' Palgrave, 2001. 395 pp.
* Ward, Robert E., ed. ''Political Development in Modern Japan: Studies in the Modernization of Japan'' (Princeton University Press, 2015)
* Yoshimi, Yoshiaki. ''Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People'' (Translated by Ethan Mark. Columbia University Press, 2015). 360 pp
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Occupation: 1945-1952

* Buckley, Roger. ''Occupation Diplomacy: Britain, the United States and Japan, 1945-1952.'' (1982). 294 pp.
* Cohen, Jerome B. ''Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction'' (1949) 545 pp. * Cohen, Theodore. ''Remaking Japan: The American Occupation as New Deal.'' (1987). 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.'' (1999). 688 pp.
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* Eldridge, Robert. ''The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem: Okinawa in Postwar US-Japan Relations, 1945-1952'' (2001
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* Finn, Richard B. ''Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan.'' (1992). 413 pp.
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* Hane, Mikiso. ''Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945'' (1996)
* Harvey, Robert. ''American Shogun: General MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito, and the Drama of Modern Japan.'' (2006). 480 pp.
* Hellegers, Dale M. ''We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution.'' (2 vol. 2002). 826 pp.
* Hewes Jr., Laurence I. ''Japan -- Land and Men: An Account of the Japanese Land Reform Program, 1945-51'' 154 pgs. (1955)
* Hirano, Kyoko. ''Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: The Japanese Cinema under the American Occupation, 1945-1952.'' (1992). 400 pp.
* Koseki, Shoichi. ''The Birth of Japan's Postwar Constitution.'' (1997). 257 pp
* Koshiro, Yukiko. ''Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan.'' (1999). 295 pp.
* Molasky, Michael S. ''The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory.'' (1999). 244 pp.
* Moore, Ray A. and Robinson, Donald L. ''Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur.'' (2002). 409 pp.
* Orbaugh, Sharalyn. ''Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity.'' (2007). 515 pp.
* Sandler, Mark, ed. ''The Confusion Era: Art and Culture in Japan during the Allied Occupation, 1945-52.'' (1998). 112 pp.
* Schonberger, Howard B. ''Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952'' (1989)
* Schaller, Michael. ''The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia'' (1987
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* Shibata, Masako. ''Japan and Germany under the US Occupation: A Comparative Analysis of Post-War Education Reform.'' (2005). 212 pp.
* Sodei, Rinjiro. ''Dear General MacArthur: Letters from the Japanese during the American Occupation.'' (2001). 308 pp., primary sources
* Takemae, Eiji. ''Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy.'' (2002). 800 pp.
* VanStaaveren, Jacob. ''An American in Japan, 1945-1948: A Civilian View of the Occupation.'' (1995). 286 pp. primary course
* Ward, Robert E. and Yoshikazu, Sakamoto. ''Democratizing Japan: The Allied Occupation.'' (1987). 456 pp.
* Williams, Justin, Sr. ''Japan's Political Revolution Under MacArthur: A Participant's Account.'' (1979). 317 pp. primary source
* Yoshida, Shigeru. ''The Yoshida Memoirs: The Story of Japan in Crisis'' 1961, primary sourc
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Since 1952

* Allinson, Gary D. ''Japan's Postwar History.'' (2nd ed 2004). 208 pp.
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* Beauchamp, Edward R., ed. ''Education and Schooling in Japan since 1945'' (Routledge, 2014)
* Chapman, J.W.M., Reinhard Drifte, and Ian T.M. Gow, eds. ''Japan's Quest for Comprehensive Security: Defence-Diplomacy-Dependence'' (A&C Black, 2013)
* Duus, Peter, ed. ''The Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century.'' (1989). 866 pp.
* Hane, Mikiso. ''Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945'' (1996
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* Hook, Glenn D. et al. ''Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security'' (2nd ed. Routledge, 2011)
* LaFeber, Walter. ''The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations.'' (1997). 544 pp., The standard history
* Neary, Ian. ''Leaders and leadership in Japan'' (Routledge, 2014)
* Scalapino, Robert A., ed. ''The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan'' (University of California Press, 1977)
* Shinoda, Tomohito. ''Contemporary Japanese Politics: Institutional Changes and Power Shifts'' (Columbia University Press, 2013)
* 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'' (2005
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* Sumiya, Mikio, ed. ''A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy.'' (2000). 662 pp.
* Van Wolferen, Karel. ''The enigma of Japanese power: People and politics in a stateless nation'' (1989)A that

Cultural and social history

* Craig, Albert M.; Shively, Donald H. ''Personality in Japanese History'' (1995)
* Dore, R. P. ''Aspects of Social Change in Modern Japan'' (1971)
* Dumoulin, Heinrich. ''Zen Buddhism: A History. Vol. 2. Japan.'' (1989). 509 pp.
* Duus, Peter, ed. ''The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents.'' (1997). 226 pp.
* Earhart, H. Byron. ''Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity'' (1974).
* Guttmann, Allen and Thompson, Lee. ''Japanese Sports: A History.'' (2001). 368 pp.
* Hanley, Susan B. and Kozo Yamamura. ''Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868'' (1977)
* Harootunian, Harry. ''History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life.'' (2000). 182 pp.
* Keene, Donald. ''Japanese Literature: An Introduction for Western Readers'' (1955)
* Morris, Ivan. ''The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan'' (1964)
* Kitagawa Joseph M. ''Religion in Japanese History.'' 1966.
* Kuitert, Wybe. ''Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art'' (2002). 283 pp.
* Leiter, Samuel L. ''A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance.'' (2002). 430 pp.
* Mason, Penelope. ''History of Japanese Art.'' (1993). 431 pp.
* Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. ''A History of Japanese Economic Thought'' (1991
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* Munsterberg, Hugo. ''The Arts of Japan: An Illustrated History'' (1957)
* Roberts, Laurance P. A. ''Dictionary of Japanese Artists.'' Tokyo: 1976.
* Sansom, Sir George B. ''Japan, A Short Cultural History.'' 1978
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* Siever, Sharon ''Flowers in Salt: The Beginning of Feminine Consciousness in Modern Japan'' (1983)
* Standish, Isolde. ''A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film.'' (2005). 452 pp.
* Stanley, Amy. ''Selling women: Prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan'' (U of California Press, 2012)
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* Thomas, James Edward. ''Modern Japan: a social history since 1868'' (Routledge, 2017
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* Tonomura, Hitomi; Walthall, Anne; and Haruko, Wakita. ''Women and Class in Japanese History'' (1999).
* Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi. ''Modern Japanese Thought.'' (1998). 403 pp
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* Varley, Paul Herbert. ''Japanese Culture'' (4th ed. 2000)
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Economic history

* Allen, George. ''Short Economic History of Modern Japan'' (4th ed. 1981
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* Cohen, Jerome B. ''Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction'' (1949) 545 pp; on 1940s

* Black, Cyril, ed. ''The Modernization of Japan and Russia: A Comparative Study'' (1975
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* Dore, Ronald. ''Taking Japan seriously: A Confucian perspective on leading economic issues'' (A&C Black, 2013).

* Ericson, Steven J. The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan (Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 1996).
* Ferris, William W. ''Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History'' (2009
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* Flath, David. ''The Japanese Economy'' (3rd ed. Oxford UP, 2014), On current conditions.
* Gordon, Andrew, ed. ''Postwar Japan as History'' (1993), pp 99–188, 259-29
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* 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.'' (2004). 420 pp.
* Kelley, Allen C. and Jeffrey G. Williamson, ed. ''Lessons from Japanese Development'' (1974)
* Kornicki, Peter F., ed. ''Meiji Japan: Political, Economic and Social History 1868–1912'' (4 vol; 1998) 1336 pages of scholarly articles
* Kozo, Yamamura, and Yasuba Yasukichi, eds. ''The Political Economy of Japan: Volume 1—The Domestic Transformation'' (1987)
* Lechevalier, Sébastien, ed. ''The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism'' (2014) on 1980-201
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* Morikawa, Hidemasa. ''A History of Top Management in Japan: Managerial Enterprises and Family Enterprises'' (2001)
* Morley, James William, ed. ''Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide'' (Columbia UP, 1974), covers Japan's economic foreign policies, 1868–1893, pp 118–52
* Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. ''History of Japanese Economic Thought'' (1991)
* Nakamura, Takafusa, ''et al.'' eds. ''The Economic History of Japan: 1600–1990: Volume 1: Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600–1859'' (2004); ''Volume 3: Economic History of Japan 1914–1955: A Dual Structure'' (2003),
* Nakamura, James. ''Agricultural Production and the Economic Development of Japan, 1873–1922'' (Princeton University Press, 1966)
* Ohtsu, Makoto. ''Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000.'' (2002). 459pp.
* Patrick, Hugh, Sooned. ''Japanese Industrialization and Its Social Consequences'' (1977)
* Rosovsky, Henry. "Rumbles in the Rice Fields," ''Journal of Asian Studies'' (February 1968): vol. 27, No. 2 pp 347–60.
* Smitka, Michael, ed. ''The Japanese economy in the Tokugawa era, 1600-1868'' (Routledge, 2012)
* Sugihara, Kaoru. ''Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949 - Vol. 1''
* Tolliday, Steven. ''The Economic Development of Modern Japan, 1868–1945: From the Meiji Restoration to the Second World War'' (2 vol; 2001), 1376pp; reprints 50 scholarly articles
* Yamamura, Kozo. "Toward a Reexamination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867." ''Journal of Economic History'' (1973) 33#3 pp: 509–546
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Foreign policy

* Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. ''Japan's Foreign Relations 1542-1936: A Short History'' (1979
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560pp
* Beasley, William G. ''Japanese Imperialism, 1894–1945'' (Oxford UP, 1987)
* Burns, Richard Dean, and Edward Moore Bennett. ''Diplomats in Crisis: United States-Chinese-Japanese Relations, 1919-1941'' (ABC-Clio, 1974); bibliography
* Cooney, Kevin J. ''Japan's Foreign Policy Since 1945'' (2006)
* Hook, Glenn D. et al. ''Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security '' (2011
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* Inoguchi, Takashi. ''Japan's foreign policy in an era of global change'' (A&C Black, 2013)
* Iriye, Akira. ''Japan and the wider world: from the mid-nineteenth century to the present'' (Longman, 1997)
* Jung-Sun, Han. "Rationalizing the Orient: The" East Asia Cooperative Community" in Prewar Japan." ''Monumenta Nipponica'' (2005): 481-514
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* Lafeber, Walter. ''The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations'' (1997), a standard scholarly history
* Langdon, Frank. ''Japan's foreign policy'' (U. British Columbia Press, 2011)
* Langer, William L. ''The diplomacy of imperialism: 1890-1902'' (2nd ed. 1951), world diplomatic history
* Maslow, Sebastian, Ra Mason and Paul O’Shea, eds. ''Risk State: Japan’s Foreign Policy In An Age Of Uncertainty'' (Ashgate. 2015) 202p
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* Morley, James William, ed. ''Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide'' (Columbia UP, 1974), comprehensive coverage of diplomatic & military & cultural relations
* Nish, Ian Hill. ''The origins of the Russo-Japanese war'' (1985)
* Nish, Ian. ''Japanese Foreign Policy, 1869-1942: Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka'' (2001)
* Nish, Ian. (1990) "An Overview of Relations between China and Japan, 1895–1945." ''China Quarterly'' (1990) 124 (1990): 601–623
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* Scalapino, Robert A., and Edwin O. Reischauer, eds. ''The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan'' (1977)
* Shimamoto, Mayako, Koji Ito, and Yoneyuki Sugita. ''Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy'' (2015
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* Sun, Youli, and You-Li Sun. ''China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931-1941'' (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993)
* White, John Albert. ''The Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War'' (Princeton UP, 1964)
* Young, Louise. "Rethinking empire: Lessons from imperial and post-imperial Japan." ''The Oxford handbook of the ends of empire'' (2018): 212-230
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Military history

* Drea, Edward J. ''Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853 - 1945'' (2016
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* Edgerton, Robert B. ''Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military'' (1997)
* Farris, William Wayne. ''Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500–1300'' (Harvard East Asian Monographs) (1996)
* Field, Andrew. ''Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 1919-1939: Preparing for War against Japan'' (Frank Cass, 2003).
* Friday K. F. "Bushido or Bull? A Medieval Historian's Perspective on the Imperial Army and the Japanese Warrior Tradition," ''The History Teacher'' (1994) 27:339–349
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* Harries, M. and S. Harries. ''Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army'' (1991).
* Morley, James William, ed. ''Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide'' (Columbia UP, 1974), Covers " Japan's military foreign policies.", pp 3–117
* Nitobe Inazō. '' Bushido: The Soul of Japan'' (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1969)
* Perez, Louis G., ed. ''Japan at War: An Encyclopedia'' (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2013).
* Pike, Francis. ''Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945'' (2016
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* 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.
* Turnbull, Stephen (2002). ''War in Japan: 1467–1615''. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.

Historiography

* Allinson, Gary D. ''The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History.'' (1999). 259 pp
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* Beasley W. G., and E. G. Pulleyblank, eds. ''Historians of China and Japan.'' 1961.
* Bix, Herbert P. "Hiroshima in History and Memory: A Symposium, Japan's Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation." ''Diplomatic History'' 19.2 (1995): 197-225.
* Bix, Herbert P. "ar Responsibilit and Historical Memor: Hirohito's Apparition." ''Asia-Pacific Journal, Japan Focus'' 6#5 (2008) 1–18
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* Cullen, L. M. ''A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds'' (2003) pp 302–20.
* Hardacre, Helen and Kern, Adam L., eds. ''New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan.'' (1997). 782 pp.
* Hein, Laura, and Akiko Takenaka. "Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States since 1995." ''Pacific Historical Review'' 76.1 (2007): 61-94.
* Tanaka, Stefan. ''Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History'' (1995), How Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" and built a new national historiography.
* Wray, Harry, and Hilary Conroy, eds. ''Japan Examined: Perspectives on Modern Japanese History'' (1983), historiography

Scholarly journals

* ''East Asian History''
* ''Journal of Japanese Studies''
* ''Korean Studies''
* ''Monumenta Nipponica'', Japanese studies (in English)
* ''Sino-Japanese Studies''Se
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* ''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.'' (1992). 504 pp., World War II homefron
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* De Bary, Wm Theodore, et al eds. ''Sources of Japanese tradition: 1600 to 2000'' (2 vol; Columbia University Press, 2005)
vol 1 to 1600 onlinevol 1-2 1958 edition
* Lu, David J. ''Japan: A Documentary History: V. 1: The Dawn of History to the Late Eighteenth Century'' (Routledge, 2015); ''Japan: A Documentary History: V. 2: The Late Tokugawa Period to the Present'' (Routledge, 2015
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* Huffman, James L. ed. ''Modern Japan: A History in Documents'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
* Tsunoda, Ryusaku, W. T. de Bary, and Donald Keene, eds. ''Sources of Japanese Tradition.'' 1958
online free to borrow
* Yoshida, Shigeru. ''The Yoshida Memoirs: The Story of Japan in Crisis'' 1961, on Occupation, 1945–51

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