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Bibliography of Japanese history

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

Contents

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. and text search
  • 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 prose vol 1 to 1334, excerpts and search V. 2 (to 1615) and search V. 3 (to 1867)
  • Smitka, Michael, ed. The Japanese economy in the Tokugawa era, 1600-1868 (Routledge, 2012)
  • 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. in Jstor

    • 1860 to 1945

  • Black, Cyril, et al. eds. The Modernization of Japan and Russia: A Comparative Study (1977)
  • Cohen, Jerome B. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction (1949) 545 pp. online edition, 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 (2014) 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. excerpt and text search
  • 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. online in JSTOR
  • 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 477–98 excerpts and text search
  • 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) online edition
  • Thomas, James Edward. Modern Japan: a social history since 1868 (Routledge, 2014)
  • 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. online review

    • 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. online edition
  • 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. excerpt and text search
  • Eldridge, Robert. The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem: Okinawa in Postwar US-Japan Relations, 1945-1952 (2001) excerpt and text search
  • Finn, Richard B. Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan. (1992). 413 pp. excerpt and text search
  • 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) online edition
  • 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 online edition
  • 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) excerpt and text searcj
  • 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 source online edition

    • Since 1952

  • Allinson, Gary D. Japan's Postwar History. (2nd ed 2004). 208 pp. excerpt and text search
  • 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) online edition
  • 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) online edition
  • 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

  • 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) online edition
  • 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. online edition
  • 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.
  • Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi. Modern Japanese Thought. (1998). 403 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Varley, Paul Herbert. Japanese Culture: 4th Edition. Honolulu, 2000.

    • Economic history

  • Allen, George. Short Economic History of Modern Japan (3rd ed. 1972) online 1946 edition
  • Cohen, Jerome B. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction (1949) 545 pp. online edition, on 1940s
  • Black, Cyril, ed. The Modernization of Japan and Russia: A Comparative Study (1975)
  • 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) excerpt and text search
  • Flath, David. The Japanese Economy (3rd ed. Oxford UP, 2014), On current conditions.
  • Gordon, Andrew, ed. Postwar Japan as History (1993), pp 99–188, 259-292
  • 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. (2004). 420 pp.
  • Hewes Jr., Laurence I. Japan -- Land and Men: An Account of the Japanese Land Reform Program, 1945-51 154 pgs. (1955) online edition
  • 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 1980-2012 excerpt
  • Morikawa, Hidemasa. A History of Top Management in Japan: Managerial Enterprises and Family Enterprises (2001) online edition
  • 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)
  • Odagiri, Hiroyuki and Akira Goto; Technology and Industrial Development in Japan: Building Capabilities by Learning, Innovation, and Public Policy (1996) online edition
  • Ohtsu, Makoto. Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000. (2002). 459pp. online edition
  • 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)
  • 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. in Jstor

    • Historiography

  • Allinson, Gary D. The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History. (1999). 259 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Beasley W. G., and E. G. Pulleyblank, eds. Historians of China and Japan. 1961. online edition
  • Cullen, L. M. A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds (2003) online pp 302–20

    • Scholarly journals

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

    • Primary sources

  • Chamberlain, Basil Hall and W. B. Mason (1891). A handbook for travellers in Japan. London: J. Murray.  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 homefront excerpt and text search
  • Hardacre, Helen and Kern, Adam L., eds. New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan. (1997). 782 pp.
  • 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)
  • Huffman, James L. ed. Modern Japan: A History in Documents (2004)
  • 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 online edition

    • References

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