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.. 259 pp.
Beasley, W. G. The Modern History of Japan
Clement, Ernest Wilson. A Short History of Japan, 190pp
Cullen, L. M. A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds
Edgerton, Robert B. Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military.. 384 pp.
Duus, Peter. Modern Japan
Goedertier Joseph M. A Dictionary of Japanese History. 1968.
Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
Hall, John Whitney. Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times
Hane, Mikiso. Modern Japan: A Historical Survey 2nd ed Westview Press, 1992, 474pp
Henshall, Kenneth. A history of Japan: from stone age to superpower
Huffman, James L., ed. Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism.. 316 pp.
Hunter Janet. Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History..
Iwao, Seiichi. Biographical dictionary of Japanese history
Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan
McClain, James L. Japan: A Modern History.. 512 pp.
Morley, James William, ed. Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide, 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, 200 year interpretation
Perez, Louis G. The History of Japan 244pp
Perkins, Dorothy. Encyclopedia of Japan : Japanese history and culture, from abacus to zori 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.. 395 pp.
Stockwin, J. A. A. Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan.. 291pp
Tipton, Elise. Modern Japan: A Social and Political History
Totman, Conrad. A History of Japan.. 620 pp.; stress on environment
* Totman, Conrad. Early Modern Japan: A Short History
* Totman, Conrad. Japan before Perry
* Totman, Conrad. Japan: An Environmental History
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.
Chickering, Roger, and Stig Förster, eds. The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939.
Clyde, Paul Hibbert. The Far East: A History of the Impact of the West on Eastern Asia..
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.
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, and Anne Walthall. East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History
Field, Andrew. Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 1919-1939: Preparing for War against Japan.
Holcombe, Charles. A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century
Jensen, Richard, Jon Davidann, and Yoneyuki Sugita, eds. Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth Century.
Lipman, Jonathan N. and Barbara A. Molony. Modern East Asia: An Integrated History
Nimmo, William F. Stars and Stripes across the Pacific: The United States, Japan, and Asia/Pacific Region, 1895-1945.
Prescott, Anne. East Asia in the World: An Introduction
Reid, Anthony. A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads
Shavit, David. The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary.
Vogel, Ezra F. China and Japan: Facing History in-depth comparative history.

to 1860

Clulow, Adam. The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
Friday, Karl F., ed. Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850
Gerstle, C. Andrew. 18th Century Japan: Culture and Society
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina, and Gregory Smits, eds. Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan. V. 1, Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia
Hall, John W. ed. Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. IV, Early Modern Japan.. 831pp
Hall, S. Japan before Tokugawa: political consolidation and economic growth, 1500-1650
Hane, Mikiso. Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey
Hanley, Susan B. and Kozo Yamamura. Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868
Jansen, Marius B., ed. The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 5: The Nineteenth Century.. 828 pp.
Jansen, Marius B., and Gilbert Rozman, eds. Japan in transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji
Maruyama, Masao. Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan
Sansom, Sir George B. A History of Japan, 3 vols. 1963, in dense, sophisticated prose,
Smitka, Michael, ed. The Japanese economy in the Tokugawa era, 1600-1868
Williams, E. Leslie. Japan Before Meiji: A Short Cultural History
Wilson, George M. Patriots and Redeemers in Japan: Motives in the Meiji Restoration.. 201 pp.
Yamamura Kozo, ed. Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. III. Medieval Japan..
Yamamura, Kozo. "Toward a Reexamination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867." Journal of Economic History 33 pp. 509–546.

1860 to 1945

Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. Japan's Foreign Relations 1542-1936: A Short History 560pp.
Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, a standard biography ; Pulitzer Prize.
* Bix, Herbert. "Emperor Hirohito's war." History Today 41.12 : 12-19; short popular summary
Black, Cyril, et al. eds. The Modernization of Japan and Russia: A Comparative Study
Borton, Hugh. Japan's modern century, 1850 to 1970; university textbook;
Cohen, Jerome B. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction 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 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.
Duus, Peter, ed. The Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century.. 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 : 913–934.
Hunter, Janet. The emergence of modern Japan: an introductory history since 1853
Iriye, Akira. Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945,
Jansen, Marius B. and Rozman, Gilbert, eds. Japan in Transition, from Tokugawa to Meiji.. 485 pp. modernization models
Keene, Donald. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912.. 928 pp.
LaFeber, Walter. The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations.. 544 pp.
Megarry, Tim, ed. The Making of Modern Japan: A Reader 34 essays by scholars; 591pp
Nakamura, Takafusa, et al. eds. Economic History of Japan 1914–1955: A Dual Structure
Perez, Louis G., ed. Japan at War: An Encyclopedia pp 477–98
Ravina, Mark. To stand with the nations of the world: Japan's Meiji restoration in world history
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
Yoshimi, Yoshiaki. Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People. 360 pp.

Occupation: 1945-1952

Buckley, Roger. Occupation Diplomacy: Britain, the United States and Japan, 1945-1952.. 294 pp.
Cohen, Jerome B. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction 545 pp. * Cohen, Theodore. Remaking Japan: The American Occupation as New Deal.. 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.. 688 pp.
Eldridge, Robert. The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem: Okinawa in Postwar US-Japan Relations, 1945-1952
Finn, Richard B. Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan.. 413 pp.
Hane, Mikiso. Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945
Harvey, Robert. American Shogun: General MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito, and the Drama of Modern Japan.. 480 pp.
Hellegers, Dale M. We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution.. 826 pp.
Hewes Jr., Laurence I. Japan -- Land and Men: An Account of the Japanese Land Reform Program, 1945-51 154 pgs.
Hirano, Kyoko. Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: The Japanese Cinema under the American Occupation, 1945-1952.. 400 pp.
Koseki, Shoichi. The Birth of Japan's Postwar Constitution.. 257 pp
Koshiro, Yukiko. Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan.. 295 pp.
Molasky, Michael S. The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory.. 244 pp.
Moore, Ray A. and Robinson, Donald L. Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur.. 409 pp.
Orbaugh, Sharalyn. Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity.. 515 pp.
Sandler, Mark, ed. The Confusion Era: Art and Culture in Japan during the Allied Occupation, 1945-52.. 112 pp.
Schonberger, Howard B. Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952
Schaller, Michael. The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia
Shibata, Masako. Japan and Germany under the US Occupation: A Comparative Analysis of Post-War Education Reform.. 212 pp.
Sodei, Rinjiro. Dear General MacArthur: Letters from the Japanese during the American Occupation.. 308 pp., primary sources
Takemae, Eiji. Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy.. 800 pp.
VanStaaveren, Jacob. An American in Japan, 1945-1948: A Civilian View of the Occupation.. 286 pp. primary course
Ward, Robert E. and Yoshikazu, Sakamoto. Democratizing Japan: The Allied Occupation.. 456 pp.
Williams, Justin, Sr. Japan's Political Revolution Under MacArthur: A Participant's Account.. 317 pp. primary source
Yoshida, Shigeru. The Yoshida Memoirs: The Story of Japan in Crisis 1961, primary source

Since 1952

Allinson, Gary D. Japan's Postwar History.. 208 pp.
Beauchamp, Edward R., ed. Education and Schooling in Japan since 1945
Chapman, J.W.M., Reinhard Drifte, and Ian T.M. Gow, eds. Japan's Quest for Comprehensive Security: Defence-Diplomacy-Dependence
Duus, Peter, ed. The Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century.. 866 pp.
Hane, Mikiso. Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945
Hook, Glenn D. et al. Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security
LaFeber, Walter. The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations.. 544 pp., The standard history
Neary, Ian. Leaders and leadership in Japan
Scalapino, Robert A., ed. The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan
Shinoda, Tomohito. Contemporary Japanese Politics: Institutional Changes and Power Shifts
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
Sumiya, Mikio, ed. A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy.. 662 pp.
Van Wolferen, Karel. The enigma of Japanese power: People and politics in a stateless nation A that

Cultural and social history

Craig, Albert M.; Shively, Donald H. Personality in Japanese History
Dore, R. P. Aspects of Social Change in Modern Japan
Dumoulin, Heinrich. Zen Buddhism: A History. Vol. 2. Japan.. 509 pp.
Duus, Peter, ed. The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents.. 226 pp.
Earhart, H. Byron. Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity.
Guttmann, Allen and Thompson, Lee. Japanese Sports: A History.. 368 pp.
Hanley, Susan B. and Kozo Yamamura. Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868
Harootunian, Harry. History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life.. 182 pp.
Keene, Donald. Japanese Literature: An Introduction for Western Readers
Morris, Ivan. The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
Kitagawa Joseph M. Religion in Japanese History. 1966.
Kuitert, Wybe. Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art. 283 pp.
Leiter, Samuel L. A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance.. 430 pp.
Mason, Penelope. History of Japanese Art.. 431 pp.
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. A History of Japanese Economic Thought
Munsterberg, Hugo. The Arts of Japan: An Illustrated History
Roberts, Laurance P. A. Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Tokyo: 1976.
Sansom, Sir George B. Japan, A Short Cultural History. 1978.
Siever, Sharon Flowers in Salt: The Beginning of Feminine Consciousness in Modern Japan
Standish, Isolde. A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film.. 452 pp.
Stanley, Amy. Selling women: Prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan.
Thomas, James Edward. Modern Japan: a social history since 1868
Tonomura, Hitomi; Walthall, Anne; and Haruko, Wakita. Women and Class in Japanese History.
Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi. Modern Japanese Thought.. 403 pp.
Varley, Paul Herbert. Japanese Culture.

Economic history

Allen, George. Short Economic History of Modern Japan
Cohen, Jerome B. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction 545 pp; on 1940s
Black, Cyril, ed. The Modernization of Japan and Russia: A Comparative Study
Dore, Ronald. Taking Japan seriously: A Confucian perspective on leading economic issues.
Ericson, Steven J. The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan.
Ferris, William W. Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History
Flath, David. The Japanese Economy, On current conditions.
Gordon, Andrew, ed. Postwar Japan as History, 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.. 420 pp.
Kelley, Allen C. and Jeffrey G. Williamson, ed. Lessons from Japanese Development
Kornicki, Peter F., ed. Meiji Japan: Political, Economic and Social History 1868–1912 1336 pages of scholarly articles
Kozo, Yamamura, and Yasuba Yasukichi, eds. The Political Economy of Japan: Volume 1—The Domestic Transformation
Lechevalier, Sébastien, ed. The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism on 1980-2012
Morikawa, Hidemasa. A History of Top Management in Japan: Managerial Enterprises and Family Enterprises
Morley, James William, ed. Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide, covers Japan's economic foreign policies, 1868–1893, pp 118–52
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. History of Japanese Economic Thought
Nakamura, Takafusa, et al. eds. The Economic History of Japan: 1600–1990: Volume 1: Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600–1859 ; Volume 3: Economic History of Japan 1914–1955: A Dual Structure,
Nakamura, James. Agricultural Production and the Economic Development of Japan, 1873–1922
Ohtsu, Makoto. Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000.. 459pp.
Patrick, Hugh, Sooned. Japanese Industrialization and Its Social Consequences
Rosovsky, Henry. "Rumbles in the Rice Fields," Journal of Asian Studies : vol. 27, No. 2 pp 347–60.
Smitka, Michael, ed. The Japanese economy in the Tokugawa era, 1600-1868
Sugihara, Kaoru. Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949 - Vol. 1
Tolliday, Steven. The Economic Development of Modern Japan, 1868–1945: From the Meiji Restoration to the Second World War, 1376pp; reprints 50 scholarly articles
Yamamura, Kozo. "Toward a Reexamination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867." Journal of Economic History 33#3 pp: 509–546.

Foreign policy

Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. Japan's Foreign Relations 1542-1936: A Short History 560pp
Beasley, William G. Japanese Imperialism, 1894–1945
Burns, Richard Dean, and Edward Moore Bennett. Diplomats in Crisis: United States-Chinese-Japanese Relations, 1919-1941 ; bibliography
Cooney, Kevin J. Japan's Foreign Policy Since 1945
Hook, Glenn D. et al. Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security
Inoguchi, Takashi. Japan's foreign policy in an era of global change
Iriye, Akira. Japan and the wider world: from the mid-nineteenth century to the present
Jung-Sun, Han. "Rationalizing the Orient: The" East Asia Cooperative Community" in Prewar Japan." Monumenta Nipponica : 481-514.
Lafeber, Walter. The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations, a standard scholarly history
Langdon, Frank. Japan's foreign policy
Langer, William L. The diplomacy of imperialism: 1890-1902, world diplomatic history
Maslow, Sebastian, Ra Mason and Paul O’Shea, eds. Risk State: Japan’s Foreign Policy In An Age Of Uncertainty 202pp
Morley, James William, ed. Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide, comprehensive coverage of diplomatic & military & cultural relations
Nish, Ian Hill. The origins of the Russo-Japanese war
Nish, Ian. Japanese Foreign Policy, 1869-1942: Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka
Nish, Ian. "An Overview of Relations between China and Japan, 1895–1945." China Quarterly 124 : 601–623.
Scalapino, Robert A., and Edwin O. Reischauer, eds. The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan
Shimamoto, Mayako, Koji Ito, and Yoneyuki Sugita. Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy
Sun, Youli, and You-Li Sun. China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931-1941
White, John Albert. The Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War
Young, Louise. "Rethinking empire: Lessons from imperial and post-imperial Japan." The Oxford handbook of the ends of empire : 212-230.

Military history

Drea, Edward J. Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853 - 1945
Edgerton, Robert B. Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military
Farris, William Wayne. Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500–1300
Field, Andrew. Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 1919-1939: Preparing for War against Japan.
Friday K. F. "Bushido or Bull? A Medieval Historian's Perspective on the Imperial Army and the Japanese Warrior Tradition," The History Teacher 27:339–349,
Harries, M. and S. Harries. Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Morley, James William, ed. Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide, Covers " Japan's military foreign policies.", pp 3–117
Nitobe Inazō. Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Perez, Louis G., ed. Japan at War: An Encyclopedia.
Pike, Francis. Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945
Steinberg, John W., Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye, Shinji Yokote, and David Wolff, eds. The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero. Boston: Brill, 2005.
Turnbull, Stephen. War in Japan: 1467–1615. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.

Historiography

Allinson, Gary D. The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History.. 259 pp.
Beasley W. G., and E. G. Pulleyblank, eds. Historians of China and Japan. 1961.
Bix, Herbert P. "Hiroshima in History and Memory: A Symposium, Japan's Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation." Diplomatic History 19.2 : 197-225.
Bix, Herbert P. "ar Responsibilit and Historical Memor: Hirohito's Apparition." Asia-Pacific Journal| Japan Focus 6#5 1–18.
Cullen, L. M. A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds pp 302–20.
Hardacre, Helen and Kern, Adam L., eds. New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan.. 782 pp.
Hein, Laura, and Akiko Takenaka. "Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States since 1995." Pacific Historical Review 76.1 : 61-94.
Tanaka, Stefan. Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History, How Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" and built a new national historiography.
Wray, Harry, and Hilary Conroy, eds. Japan Examined: Perspectives on Modern Japanese History, historiography

Scholarly journals

East Asian HistoryJournal of Japanese StudiesKorean StudiesMonumenta Nipponica, Japanese studies Sino-Japanese Studies

''Social Science Japan Journal''

Primary sources

full text of useful travel guide
Cook, Haruko Taya and Cook, Theodore F. eds. Japan at War: An Oral History.. 504 pp., World War II homefront
De Bary, Wm Theodore, et al eds. Sources of Japanese tradition: 1600 to 2000. ;
Lu, David J. Japan: A Documentary History: V. 1: The Dawn of History to the Late Eighteenth Century ; Japan: A Documentary History: V. 2: The Late Tokugawa Period to the Present
Huffman, James L. ed. Modern Japan: A History in Documents.
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