Suggested Books on Japanese History

• The Great Pacific War: A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-33 by Hector C. Bywater
• A Brief History of Japanese Civilization by Conrad Schirokauer
• Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 by Donald Keene
• The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, Anna Fields
• Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
• Japan Encyclopedia (Harvard University Press Reference Library) by Louis Frederic, et al.
• The Cambridge History of Japan: Medieval Japan by Kozo Yamamura (Editor)
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Japan: A Modern History by James L. McClain
• A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie, Paul Schrader (Introduction)
• War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960 by Marlene J. Mayo (Editor), et al.
• Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up by Sheldon H. Harris
• Rising Sun Victorious: The Alternate History of How the Japanese Won the Pacific War by Peter G. Tsouras (Editor)
• Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan by Takeo Hoshi, et al.
• The Philippines Under Japan: Occupation Policy and Reaction by Setsuho Ikehata (Editor), et al.
• Inside Ghq: The Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy by Eiji Takemae
• A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945 by Paul S. Dull
• Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War by Eric Lacroix, et al.
• Japan's Comfort Women: The Military and Involuntary Prostitution During War and Occupation by Yuki Tanaka, Susan Brownmiller
• The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan by Mikael S. Adolphson
• Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane (Editor), Tomi Suzuki (Editor)
• The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800 by Brett L. Walker
• Okinawa: The History of an Island People by George H. Kerr, Mitsugu Sakihara (Introduction)
• Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation and Power in Japan and Other Societies (Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Cultural Forms) by Joy Hendry
• Sunburst: The Rise of the Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941 by Mark R. Peattie
• Against All Odds: The Story of the Toyota Motor Corporation and the Family That Created It by Yukiyasu Togo, William Wartman
• Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (Twentieth-Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power) by Julia Adeney Thomas
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
• The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000: Economic and Business Relations by Janet E. Hunter (Editor), Shinya Sugiyama (Editor)
• Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919 (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series) by Naoko Shimazu
• Early Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority Report (Nanzan Series in Religion & Culture) by Robert E. Morrell
• Multiethnic Japan by John Lie
• Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook
• Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army by Meirion Harries, Susie Harries
• Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War by Frank B. Gibney (Introduction), Beth Cary (Translator)
• By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans by Greg Robinson
• Rising Sun Sinking: The Battle for Okinawa by Jim Boan
• Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism by Louise Young
• The Nature and Origins of Japanese Imperialism: A Reinterpretation of the Great Crisis of 1873 by Donald Calman
• Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945 by William G. Beasley
• Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937 (Harvard East Asian Monographs, No 135) by Parks M. Coble
• A History of Showa Japan, 1926-1989 by Takafusa Nakamura, Edwin Whenmouth (Translator)
• Imperialist Japan: The Yen to Dominate by Michael Montgomery
• The Postwar Japanese Economy: Its Development and Structure, 1937-1994 by Takafusa Nakamura
• The Battle for Okinawa by Hiromichi Yahara, Frank B. Gibney
• United States and Japan in the Pacific (American Imperialism Viewpoints of United States Foreign Policy, 1898-1941 Series) by Jiuju G. Kasai
• Oriental Policy of the United States (American Imperialism: Viewpoints of the United States Foreign Policy, 1898-1941) by Henry Chung
• Sea Power in the Pacific: A Study of the American-Japanese Naval Problem by Hector Bywater
• Japan's New Imperialism by Rob Steven
• Japanese Imperialism Today: "Co-prosperity in Greater East Asia," by Jon Halliday
• Trans-Pacific Racisms—and the U.S. Occupation of Japan by Koshiro, Yukiko.
• Zen at War by Brian Victoria.
• Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeniety by Michael Weiner (Editor)55. Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation by Leo T.S. Ching