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Bibliography

Surveys and reference

• Allinson, Gary D. The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History. Columbia U. Press, 1999. 259 pp. excerpt and text search
• Allinson, Gary D. Japan's Postwar History. Cornell U. Press, (2nd ed 2004). 208 pp. excerpt and text search
• Beasley, W. G. The Modern History of Japan Praeger, 1963 online edition
• Clement, Ernest Wilson. A Short History of Japan (1915), 190pp online edition
• Cullen, L. M. A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds Cambridge University Press, 2003 online edition
• Duus, Peter, ed. The Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge U. Press, 1989. 866 pp.
• Goedertier Joseph M. A. Dictionary of Japanese History. 1968.
• Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present Oxford University Press, 2003 online edition; also excerpt and text search
• Hall, John W. ed. Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. IV, Early Modern Japan. Cambridge University Press, 1991. 831pp
• Hall John W. Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times. 1970.
• Hane, Mikiso. Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey (1991)
• Hane, Mikiso. Modern Japan: A Historical Survey 2nd ed Westview Press, 1992, 474pp online edition
• Hane, Mikiso. Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945 (1996)
• Huffman, James L., ed. Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism. Garland, 1998. 316 pp.
• Hunter Janet. Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. 1984.
• Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan (2002) excerpts and search online
• Jansen, Marius B., ed. The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 5: The Nineteenth Century. Cambridge U. Press, 1989. 828 pp. excerpt and text search
• McClain, James L. Japan: A Modern History. W. W. Norton, 2001. 512 pp. excerpt and text search
• Perez, Louis G. The History of Japan Greenwood Press, 1998 244pp online edition
• Perkins, Dorothy. Encyclopedia of Japan: Japanese History and Culture, from Abacus to Zori. Facts on File, 1991. 410 pp.
• Reischauer, Edwin O. Japan: The Story of a Nation. 1990.
• Reischauer, Edwin O., and Albert M. Craig. Japan, Tradition and Transformation 1978.
• Sansom, Sir George B. A History of Japan, 3 vols. 1963, in dense, sophisticated prose excerpts and search vol 1 to 1334, excerpts and search vol 2 to 1615 excerpts and search vol 3 to 1867
• Stockwin, J. A.A. Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan. Routledge. 2003. 291pp online edition
• Totman, Conrad. A History of Japan. Blackwell 2nd ed. 2000. 620 pp.; stress on environment online excerpts and search
• Yamamura Kozo, ed. Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. III. Medieval Japan. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Specialized studies

• Beasley W. G., and E. G. Pulleyblank, eds. Historians of China and Japan. 1961. online edition
• Cohen, Jerome B. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction (1949) 545 pp. online edition
• Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. W. W. Norton, 1999. 688 pp. excerpt and text search
• Dower, John W. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. Pantheon, 1986. 398 pp. excerpt and text search
• Edgerton, Robert B. Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military. W. W. Norton, 1999. 384 pp. excerpt and text search
• Ericson, Steven J. The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan. Harvard U. Press, 1996. 506 pp.
• Hane, Mikiso. Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945 Westview Press, 1996 online edition
• 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. Oxford U. Press, 2004. 420 pp.
• Iriye, Akira. Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945 (1981),
• LaFeber, Walter. The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations. W. W. Norton, 1997. 544 pp.
• 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 interpretation excerpt and text search
• Ohtsu, Makoto. Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000. East Gate, 2002. 459 pp.
• Schonberger, Howard B. Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952 Kent State University Press, 1989 online edition
• 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 Oxford University Press, 2005 online edition
• Sumiya, Mikio, ed. A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy. Oxford U. Press, 2000. 662 pp.
• Totman, Conrad. "Tokugawa Peasants: Win, Lose, or Draw?" Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 41, No. 4. (Winter, 1986), pp. 457-476. in English; in JSTOR
• Umesao, Tadao. An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2003. 208 pp.
• Yamamura, Kozo. "Toward a Reexamination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867." Journal of Economic History 1973 33(3): 509-546. Issn: 0022-0507 Fulltext: in Jstor

Cultural history

• Dumoulin, Heinrich. Zen Buddhism: A History. Vol. 2. Japan. Macmillan, 1989. 509 pp.
• Duus, Peter, ed. The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford Books, 1997. 226 pp.
• Earhart, H. Byron. Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity (1974).
• Guttmann, Allen and Thompson, Lee. Japanese Sports: A History. U. of Hawai`i Press, 2001. 368 pp.
• Harootunian, Harry. History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life. Columbia U. Press, 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 U. of Hawai`i Pr., 2002. 283 pp.
• Leiter, Samuel L. A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance. M. E. Sharpe, 2002. 430 pp.
• Mason, Penelope. History of Japanese Art. Abrams, 1993. 431 pp.
• Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. A History of Japanese Economic Thought Routledge, 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. New York: Continuum, 2005. 452 pp.
• Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi. Modern Japanese Thought. Cambridge U. Press, 1998. 403 pp.

Primary sources

• Cook, Haruko Taya and Cook, Theodore F. eds. Japan at War: An Oral History. W. W. Norton, 1992. 504 pp., World War II homefront
• 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 Occupayion, 1945-51 online edition