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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Allinson, Gary D. ''The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History.'' (1999). 259 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Guide-Modern-Japanese-History/dp/0231111444/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190394878&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Allinson, Gary D. ''The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History.'' (1999). 259 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Guide-Modern-Japanese-History/dp/0231111444/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190394878&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Allinson, Gary D. ''Japan's Postwar History.'' (2nd ed 2004). 208 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Japans-Postwar-History-Second-Allinson/dp/0801489121/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190394878&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
* Allinson, Gary D. ''Japan's Postwar History.'' (2nd ed 2004). 208 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Japans-Postwar-History-Second-Allinson/dp/0801489121/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190394878&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
* Tipton, Elise. ''Modern Japan: A Social and Political History'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Japan-Political-Institute-Routledge/dp/0415185378/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205827181&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
* Tipton, Elise. ''Modern Japan: A Social and Political History'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Japan-Political-Institute-Routledge/dp/0415185378/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205827181&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
* Totman, Conrad. ''A History of Japan.'' (2nd ed. 2000). 620 pp.; stress on environment [http://www.amazon.com/History-Japan-Blackwell-World/dp/1405123591/ref=sr_1_21/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188272498&sr=8-21 online excerpts and search]
* Totman, Conrad. ''A History of Japan.'' (2nd ed. 2000). 620 pp.; stress on environment [http://www.amazon.com/History-Japan-Blackwell-World/dp/1405123591/ref=sr_1_21/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188272498&sr=8-21 online excerpts and search]
==Advanced Bibliography==
===Surveys and reference===
* Allinson, Gary D. ''The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History.'' (1999). 259 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Guide-Modern-Japanese-History/dp/0231111444/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190394878&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Beasley, W. G. ''The Modern History of Japan'' (1963) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10327723 online edition]
* Clement, Ernest Wilson. ''A Short History of Japan'' (1915), 190pp [http://books.google.com/books?id=mOoTAAAAIAAJ&dq=intitle:History+intitle:Japan&num=30&as_brr=1 online edition]
* Cullen, L. M. ''A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds'' (2003) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106045491 online edition]
* Edgerton, Robert B. ''Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military.'' (1999). 384 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Warriors-Rising-Sun-Japanese-Military/dp/0813336007/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190395075&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
* Goedertier Joseph M. ''A. Dictionary of Japanese History.'' 1968.
* Gordon, Andrew. ''A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present'' (2003) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103548936 online edition]; also [http://www.amazon.com/Modern-History-Japan-Tokugawa-Present/dp/0195110617/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190394957&sr=1-1 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 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=57239340 online edition]
* 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.
* Jansen, Marius B. ''The Making of Modern Japan'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Making-Modern-Japan-Marius-Jansen/dp/0674009916/ref=pd_bbs_5/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188272252&sr=8-5 excerpts and search online]
* McClain, James L. ''Japan: A Modern History.'' (2001). 512 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Japan-History-James-L-McClain/dp/039397720X/ref=sr_1_8/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190394709&sr=1-8 excerpt and text search]
* 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 [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0226568032/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4827826-5463040#reader-link excerpt and text search]
* Perez, Louis G. ''The History of Japan'' (1998) 244pp [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=93932879 online edition]
* Perkins, Dorothy. ''Encyclopedia of Japan: Japanese History and Culture, from Abacus to Zori.'' (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.
* 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 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=107546295# online edition]
* Tipton, Elise. ''Modern Japan: A Social and Political History'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Japan-Political-Institute-Routledge/dp/0415185378/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205827181&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
* Totman, Conrad. ''A History of Japan.'' (2nd ed. 2000). 620 pp.; stress on environment [http://www.amazon.com/History-Japan-Blackwell-World/dp/1405123591/ref=sr_1_21/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188272498&sr=8-21 online excerpts and search]
* Totman, Conrad. ''Early Modern Japan'' (1995) [http://www.amazon.com/Early-Modern-Japan-Conrad-Totman/dp/0520203569/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212928849&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Umesao, Tadao. ''An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context.'' Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2003. 208 pp.
===to 1860===
* Hall, John W. ed. ''Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. IV, Early Modern Japan.'' (1991). 831pp
* Hane, Mikiso. ''Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey'' (1991)
* 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.
* Jansen, Marius B., ed. ''The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 5: The Nineteenth Century.'' (1989). 828 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0521484057/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4827826-5463040#reader-link excerpt and text search]
* Sansom, Sir George B. ''A History of Japan,'' 3 vols. 1963, in dense, sophisticated prose [http://www.amazon.com/History-Japan-1334-George-Sansom/dp/0804705232/ref=pd_bbs_sr_6/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188272252&sr=8-6 excerpts and search vol 1 to 1334], [http://www.amazon.com/History-Japan-1334-1615-George-Sansom/dp/0804705259/ref=pd_bbs_10/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188272252&sr=8-10 excerpts and search vol 2 to 1615] [http://www.amazon.com/History-Japan-1615-1867-George-Sansom/dp/0804705275/ref=pd_bbs_11/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188272252&sr=8-11 excerpts and search vol 3 to 1867]
* Totman, Conrad. "Tokugawa Peasants: Win, Lose, or Draw?" ''Monumenta Nipponica'', Vol. 41, No. 4. (Winter, 1986), pp. 457-476. in English; [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-0741%28198624%2941%3A4%3C457%3ATPWLOD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K in JSTOR]
* 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'' 1973 33(3): 509-546. Issn: 0022-0507 Fulltext: [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507(197309)33%3A3%3C509%3ATAROTE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D in Jstor]
===1860 to 1945===
* Cohen, Jerome B. ''Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction'' (1949) 545 pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=97828044 online edition]
* Dower, John W. ''War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War.'' Pantheon, 1986. 398 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/War-Without-Mercy-Power-Pacific/dp/0394751728/ref=sr_1_6/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190395020&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search]
* Duus, Peter, ed. ''The Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century.'' (1989). 866 pp.
* Ericson, Steven J. ''The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan.'' (1996). 506 pp.
* 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.
* 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) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=110053108 online edition]
====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. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=97828044 online edition]
* Cohen, Theodore. ''Remaking Japan: The American Occupation as New Deal.'' (1987). 526 pp.
* Dower, John W. ''Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II.'' (1999). 688 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Embracing-Defeat-Japan-Wake-World/dp/0393320278/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190395020&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Eldridge, Robert. ''The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem: Okinawa in Postwar US-Japan Relations, 1945-1952'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Bilateral-Okinawa-Problem-Relations/dp/0815339488/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205828639&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
* Finn, Richard B. ''Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan.'' (1992). 413 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Winners-Peace-MacArthur-Yoshida-Postwar/dp/0520202139/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205828562&sr=8-1 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) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=55646740 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 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=82298292 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) [http://www.amazon.com/American-Occupation-Japan-Origins-Cold/dp/0195051904/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205828760&sr=8-2 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 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34588784 online edition]
===Since 1952===
* Allinson, Gary D. ''Japan's Postwar History.'' (2nd ed 2004). 208 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Japans-Postwar-History-Second-Allinson/dp/0801489121/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190394878&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
* Duus, Peter, ed. ''The Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century.'' (1989). 866 pp.
* Hane, Mikiso. ''Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945'' (1996) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9049214 online edition]
* LaFeber, Walter. ''The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations.'' (1997). 544 pp.
* Ohtsu, Makoto. ''Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000.'' (2002). 459 pp.
[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=96705936 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'' (2005) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=110053108 online edition]
* Sumiya, Mikio, ed. ''A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy.'' (2000). 662 pp.
===Cultural history===
* 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.
* 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) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108793096 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. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23172776 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. [http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Japanese-Thought-Bob-Wakabayashi/dp/0521588103/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205827181&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
===Historiography===
* Allinson, Gary D. ''The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History.'' (1999). 259 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Guide-Modern-Japanese-History/dp/0231111444/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190394878&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Beasley W. G., and E. G. Pulleyblank, eds. ''Historians of China and Japan.'' 1961. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=96362768 online edition]
* Hardacre, Helen and Kern, Adam L., eds. ''New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan.'' (1997). 782 pp.
===Primary sources===
* Cook, Haruko Taya and Cook, Theodore F. eds. ''Japan at War: An Oral History.'' (1992). 504 pp., World War II homefront [http://www.amazon.com/Japan-at-War-Oral-History/dp/1565840399/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205827662&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* 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 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34588784 online edition]
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