Japan/Bibliography

Geography and guides

Cressey George B. Asia's Lands and Peoples. 1963.
DK, Japan (Eyewitness Travel Guides) (2007) excerpt and text search
Reiber, Beth, and Janie Spencer. Frommer's Japan (2006) excerpt and text search
Rowthorn, Chris et al. Lonely Planet Japan (2005) excerpt and text search
Trewartha Glenn T. Japan: A Physical, Cultural and Regional Geography. 1965.

Grimes, William W. Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics, 1985-2000 (2002) excerpt and text search
Ito, Takatoshi, Hugh Patrick, and David E. Weinstein. Reviving Japan's Economy: Problems and Prescriptions (2005) excerpt and text search
Karan, Pradyumna P., and Dick Gilbreath. Japan in the 21st Century: Environment, Economy, and Society (2005)
Lincoln, James R., and Michael L. Gerlach. Japan's Network Economy: Structure, Persistence, and Change (2007) excerpt and text search
Ohtsu, Makoto. Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000. East Gate, 2002. 459 pp.
Wood, Christopher. The Bubble Economy: Japan's Extraordinary Speculative Boom of the '80s And the Dramatic Bust of the '90s (2005)

Curtis, Gerald L. The Logic of Japanese Politics (2000) excerpt and text search
Hayes, Louis D. Introduction To Japanese Politics (2004) excerpt and text search
Hughes, Christopher W. Japan's Re-emergence as a 'Normal' Military Power (2006) excerpt and text search
Kawabata, Eiji. Contemporary Government Reform in Japan: The Dual State in Flux (2006) excerpt and text search
LaFeber, Walter. The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations. W. W. Norton, 1997. 544 pp.
Samuels, Richard J. Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (2007) excerpt and text search
Stockwin, J. A.A. Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan. Routledge. 2003. 291pp online edition
Sudo, Sueo The International Relations of Japan and South East Asia: Forging a New Regionalism Routledge, 2002 online edition
Vogel, Steven Kent. Japan Remodeled: How Government And Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism (2006) excerpt and text search

For a more detailed bibliography see history of Japan

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
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. Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times. 1970.
Hane, Mikiso. Modern Japan: A Historical Survey 2nd ed Westview Press, 1992, 474pp online edition
Hane, Mikiso. Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945 Westview Press, 1996 online edition
Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan (2002) excerpts and search online
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 online edition
Reischauer, Edwin O. and Marius B. Jansen, Japanese Today: Change and Continuity (2nd ed. 2004) excerpt and text search
Totman, Conrad. A History of Japan. Blackwell 2nd ed. 2000. 620 pp.; stress on environment online excerpts and search

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.
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.
Ohtsu, Makoto. Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000. East Gate, 2002. 459 pp.
Sumiya, Mikio, ed. A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy. Oxford U. Press, 2000. 662 pp.
Umesao, Tadao. An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2003. 208 pp.

Dumoulin, Heinrich. Zen Buddhism: A History. Vol. 2. Japan. Macmillan, 1989. 509 pp.
Guttmann, Allen and Thompson, Lee. Japanese Sports: A History. U. of Hawai`i Press, 2001. 368 pp.
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
Roberts, Laurance P. A. Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Tokyo: 1976.
Sansom, Sir George B. Japan, A Short Cultural History. 1978. online edition
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.

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.