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. excerpt and text search Beasley, W. G. The Modern History of Japan (1963) 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 (2003) Edgerton, Robert B. Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military. (1999). 384 pp. excerpt and text search Duus, Peter. Modern Japan (2nd ed 1998) online Goedertier Joseph M. A Dictionary of Japanese History. 1968. Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (2003) excerpt and text search 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). online Iwao, Seiichi. Biographical dictionary of Japanese history (1978) online Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan (2002) excerpts and search online McClain, James L. Japan: A Modern History. (2001). 512 pp. excerpt and text search 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 interpretation excerpt and text search Perez, Louis G. The History of Japan (1998) 244pp Perkins, Dorothy. Encyclopedia of Japan : Japanese history and culture, from abacus to zori (1991) online free to borrow 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) excerpt and text search Totman, Conrad. A History of Japan. (3rd ed 2014). 620 pp.; stress on environment excerpts and search Totman, Conrad. Early Modern Japan: A Short History (1995) excerpt and text search Totman, Conrad. Japan before Perry (2nd paperback ed. 2008) excerpt and text search 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). excerpt 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. excerpt

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 Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. Japan's Foreign Relations 1542-1936: A Short History (1979) online 560pp. Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (HarperCollins, 2001), a standard biography online; 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; online 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. 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 Ravina, Mark. To stand with the nations of the world: Japan's Meiji restoration in world history (Oxford UP, 2020) excerpt 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. 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. * 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) 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) 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