Bibliography for Modern Japan
 
 

Reference works and general studies
-Sansom, George. History of Japan. 3 vols. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1958-1963 ends in 1868
-Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993
-Cambridge History of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988-1999
-Bowring and Kornicki eds. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993
-Sei'ichi Iwao, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History. Burton Watson, trans. Kodansha, 1978
-Hardacre, Helen, ed. The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States. Leiden: Brill, 1998.
-Jansen, Marius. The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
-Najita and Koschman, eds. Conflict in Modern Japanese History: The Neglected Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
-Tsunoda, de Barry, and Keene, eds. Sources of Japanese Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press 1958
-Hall, John W. Government and Local Power in Japan, 1500-1700: A Study Based on Bizen Province. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.
-Totman, Conrad. Early Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press1993.
-_______. A History of Japan. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000

Unification

-Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Hideyoshi. Harvard U.P., 1982.*
-Boscaro, Adrianan, trans. 101 Letters of Hideyoshi: The Private Correspondence of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Tokyo: Sophia University, 1975.
-Brown, Philip C. Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993*
-Massarella, Derek. A World Elsewhere: Europe's Encounter with Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990
-Toby, Ronald. State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia and the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.*
-Jansen, Marius. China in the Tokugawa World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.*

Tokugawa Society
-Smith, Thomas C. The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959.*
-__________. Native Sources for Industrialization in Japan, 1750-1920. California U.P., 1988.
Dore, Ronald, Education in Tokugawa Japan. New York: Routledge,
Elison, George. Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early-Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988*
-Hanley, Susan, and Kozo Yamamura. Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
-Leupp, Gary. Servants Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
-Totman, Conrad. "Tokugawa Peasants: Win, Lose, or Draw?" Monumenta Nipponica 41.4 (1986):457-476.
-Vaporis, Constantine. Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.*
-Walker, Bret. Marsumae Domain and the Conquest of the Ainu Lands: Ecology and Commerce in Tokugawa Expansion. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.*

Tokugawa thought

-Ackroyd, Joyce, trans. Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
-Hardacre, Helen. Shinto and the State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
-Koschman, J. Victor. The Mito Ideology. University of California Press, 1987.*
-Maruyama Masao. Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan. Mikiso Hane trans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.
-Najita, Tetsuo. Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
-Nosco, Peter, ed. Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
-Ooms, Herman. Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

-Rubinger, Richard Private Academies of Tokugawa Japan Princeton U.P. 1982

Meiji

-Baxter, James The Meiji Unification through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture Harvard U.P. 1995
-Fukuzawa Yukichi. Autobiograpy of Fukuzawa Yukichi Eiichi Kiyooka trans. several editions.
-Fujitani, Takashi. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. California U.P. 1996.
-Gluck, Carol. Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.*
-Guth, Christine. Art, Tea and Industry: Masuda Takahsi and the Mitsui Circle Princeton U.P., 1993.*
-Hackett, Roger. Yamagata Aritomo in the Rise of Modern Japan, 1838-1922. Harvard, 1971.
-Jansen and Rozman, eds. Japan in Transition from Tokugawa to Meiji. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
-Ketelaar, James. Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and its Persecution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.*
-Smith, Thomas. The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959.
-___________. Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization. University of California Press, 1988.
-Waters, Neil Japan's Local Pragmatists: The Transition from Bakumatsu to Meiji in the Kawasaki Region. Harvard U.P., 1983. *
-Wilson, George. Patriots and Redeemers in Japan: Motives in the Meiji Restoration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Taisho

-Gordon, Andrew. Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. University of California Press, 1991.*

-Hane, Mikiso tr. and ed. Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan. California U.P. 1998.
-Lewis, Michael L. Rioters and Citizend: Mass Protests in Imperial Japan. California. U.P. 1990.
-Lone, Stewart. Japan's First Modern War: Army and Society in the Conflict with China 1894-95. St. Martin's, 1994.
-Minichello, Sharon Retreat from Reform Hawaii U.P. 1984.

-Najita, Tetsuo. Hara Kei in the Politics of Compromise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
-Smith, Kerry. A Time of Crisis: Japan the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization Cambridge U.P. 2001.
-Wray, William
Empire and War

-Barnhart, Michael. Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 Cornell U.P. 1987.
-Dower, John  War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. Pantheon, 1987.
-Duus, Peter. The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea. University of California Press, 1995.
-Gao, Bai. Economic Ideology and Industrial Policy in Japan: Developmentalism from 1931 to 1965. Cambridge, 1997.
-Havens, Thomas. Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two. W.W. Norton 1978.

Postwar Japan
 

-Dore, Ronald. Shinohata, A Portrait of a Japanese Village. New York: Pantheon, 1978.
-Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: Norton, 1999.
-Fowler, Edward. San'ya Blues, Laboring Life in Contemporary Japan. Cornell, 1996.
-Gordon, Andrew, ed. Postwar Japan as History. California, 1993.
-Kinzley, W. Dean Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition Routledge, 1991.
-Robertson, Jennifer. Native and Newcomer, Making and Remaking a Japanese City. University of California Press, 1991.
-Schlesinger, Jacob. Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machine. Stanford, 1997.
-Weiner., Michael. Japan's Minorities, The Illusion of Homogeneity. New York: Routledge, 1997.
-Yoshino, Kosaku. Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Inquiry. New York: Routledge, 1992.