The bibliography covers the main scholarly books, and a few articles, dealing with the History of Japan
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
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
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
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.
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
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
East Asian History
Journal of Japanese Studies
Korean Studies
Monumenta Nipponica, Japanese studies (in English)
Sino-Japanese Studies
Social Science Japan Journal
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
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