*Recommended books

A. Meiji Era
George Beckman,, The Making of the Meiji Constitution
*Carol Gluck, Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period
*George Akita, Foundations of Constitutional Government in Modern Japan 1868-1900
Roger Bowen, Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan
Ike, Nobutake, The Beginnings of Political Democracy in Japan (1950)
Ivan P. Hall, Mori Arinori
Roger Hackett, Yamagata Aritomo and the Rise of Modern Japan
Hazel Jones, Live Machines: Hired Foreigners and Meiji Japan
Edward Beauchamp and Akira Iriye, Foreign Employees in Nineteenth Century Japan
Ardath Burkes, The Modernizers: Overseas Students, Foreign Employees, and Meiji Japan
*Kenneth Pyle, the New Generation in Meiji Japan
James Huffman, The Politics of the Meiji Press
*Fred Notehelfer, Kotoku Shusui: Portrait of a Japanese Radical
Hyman Kublin, Asian Revolutionary: The Life of Sen Katayama
E. H. Norman, Japan's Emergence as a Modern State (also, in John W. Dower, The Origins of the Modern Japanese State.)
*Earl Kinmouth, the Self-Made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought
J. D. Crump, the Origins of Socialist Thought in Japan (to 1918)
*F. G. Notehelfer, American Samurai: L. L. Janes and Japan
Kenneth Strong, Ox Against the Storm (antipollution movement)
*Eleanor Westney, Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan

B. Prewar Political Change
*Najita, Tetsuo, Hara Kei and the Politics of Compromise, 1905 1959
*Peter Duus, Party Rivalry and Political Change in Taisho Japan
*Gordon Berger, Parties Out of Power in Japan, 1931-1941
*Sheldon Garon, The State and Labor in Modern Japan
*Maruyama, Masao, Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics
*Robert Scalapino, Democracy and the Party Movement in Prewar Japan
*David Titus, Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan
*Ben-Ami Shillony, Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan
*George O. Totten, The Social Democratic Movement in Prewar Japan
*George Beckmann and Genji Okubo, The Japanese Communist Party, 1922-1945
Frank O. Miller, Minobe Tatsukichi
*Oka, Yoshitake, Konoe Fumimaro: A Political Biography
*Murakami, Hyoe, Japan: The Years of Trial
Kazuo Nimura, The Ashio Riot of 1907. A Social History of Mining in Japan (1998)
Lesley Connors, The Emperor's Adviser: Saionji Kimmochi and Pre-War Japanese Politics
*Gregory Kasza, The Consumption Society: Administered Mass Organizations (1995, compares wartime Japan, Italy, Germany, USSR).

Reference:
James Morley, ed., Dilemmas of Growth in prewar Japan (1930s)
George M. Wilson, ed., Crisis Politics in Prewar Japan
Bernard Silberman and Harry Harootunian, ed., Japan in Crisis: Essays on Taisho Democracy
Ivan Morris, ed., Japan 1931-1945: Militariam, Fascism, Japanism?
George Totten, ed., Democracy in prewar Japan: Groundwork or Facade
Najita, Tetsuo and Victor Koschmann, ed., Conflict in Modern Japanese History (1982) Robert E. Ward, ed., Political Development in Modern Japan Cyril Black et al., The Modernization of Japan and Russia
Peter Duus, ed., Cambridge History of Japan, vol 6
Junji Banno, The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System (essays)

C. Prewar Foreign Affairs and the Military
J. N. Westwood, Russia Against Japan, 1904-1905
*Okamoto, Shumpei, The Japanese Oligarch and the Russo-Japanese War
Hilary Conroy, The Japanese Seizure of Korea, 1868-1910
*Marius Jansen, The Japanese and Sun yat sen
*James Morley, The japanese Thrust into Siberia, 1918
*Ian Nish, The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1894-1907
Ian Nish, Alliance in Decline, 1908-1923
*Ian Nish, ed., Anglo-Japanese Alienation, 1919-1952
Shimizu, Hiroshi, Anglo-Japanese Trade Rivalry in the Middle East in the Interwar Period
Akira Iriye, Pacific Estrangement: Japanese and American Expansion, 1897-1911
Akira Iriye, Across the Pacific: An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations
*Akira Iriye, After Imperialism: the Search for a New Order in Far East, 1921-1931
*Akira Iriye, Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941 1945
*Akira Iriye, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific
*Michael A. Barnhart, Japan Prepares for Total War (1919-41)
*John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
*Bamba, Nobuya, Japanese Diplomacy in Dilemma: New Light on Japan's China Policy, 1924-1929
*James Crowley, Japan's Quest for Autonomy
*Ogata, Sadako, Defiance in Manchuria
Yale Maxon, Control of Japanese Foreign Policy (Manchurian crisis)
*Christopher Thorne, The Limits of Foreign Policy: The West, the league and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1931-1932
*Christopher Thorne, Racial Aspects of the Far Eastern War, 1941 1945
*Christopher Thorne, The Issue of War: States, Societies, and the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941-1945
William f. Morton, Tanaka Giichi and Japan's China Policy
Eto, Shinkicki and Marius Jansen, trans., My Thirty-Three Years' Dream: The Autobiography of Miyazaki Toten
*E. Patricia Tsurumi, Japanese Colonial Education in Taiwan, 1895 1945
*John H. Boyle, China and Japan at War 1937-1945
Gerald E. Bunker, The Peace Conspiracy: Wang Ching-wei and the China War, 1937-1941
Alvin D. Coox and Hilary Conroy, eds., China and Japan: Search for Balance since World War I (both interwar and postwar)
*Richard Storry, Japan and the Decline of the West in Asia, 1894 1942
*E. Bruce Reynolds, Thailand and Japan's Southern Advance, 1940 1945
Newell, Wm H., ed., Japan in Asia, 1942-1945
*Louise Young, Japan's Total Empire. Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
*Sato, Shigeru, War, Nationalism and Peasants: java Under the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945
*Theodore Friend, Blue-eyed Enemy (Japan in Philippines)
*Alfred W. McCoy, ed., Southeast Asia Under Japanese Occupation
*James Morley, ed., The China Quagmire: Japan's Expansion on the Continent (1983)
*James Morley, ed., Japan's road to the Pacific War: Japan Erupts (London Naval Conference and Mandhurian Incident, 1928-32).
*W. G. Beasley, Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945
*Peter Duus et al., Japan's Informal Empire in China
*Ramon H. Myers and Mark Peattie, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945
*Mark Peattie, Nan'yo (Japanese in Micronesia)
Alvin Coox, Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 (2 vols.)
Ernest Presselsen, Germany and Japan: A Study in Totalitarian Diplomacy, 1933-1941
Anthony Reid and Akira Oki, The Japanese Experience in Indonesia (memoirs, 1942-45)
Eric Robertson, The Japanese File (Japanese policies in occupied S.E. Asia)
Joyce Lebra, Japanese-trained Armies in Southeast Asia
*Joyce Lebra, ed., Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in World War II (documents)
George a. Lensen, The Strange Neutrality: Soviet-Japanese Relations During the Second World War
Stephen Pelz, Race to Pearl Harbor: The Failure of the Second London Navel Conference and The Onset of World War II
E. C. Jones, Japan's New Order in East Asia (1954)
*Ben-Ami Shillony, Revolt in Japan: The Young Officers and the February 26, 1936 Incident
*Mark Peattie, Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's Confrontation with the West
Richard Storry, the Double Patriots (1930s young officers)
*Robert Butow, Tojo and the Coming of War
*Robert Butow, Japan's Decision to Surrender
*Ike, Nobutake, ed., Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conference
*James Morley, ed., Deterrent Diplomacy: Japan, Germany and the USSR 1935-1945 (Japan's road to the Pacific War Series)
*James Morley, ed., the Fateful Choice: Japan's Advance into Southeast Asia, 1939-1941
*Honjo, Shigeru, Emperor Hirohito and His Chief Aide de Camp: the Honjo Diary, 1933-36
*Leon Sigal, Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1945

Reference:
Marlene Mayo, ed., The Emergence of Imperial Japan: Self-Defence or Calculated Aggression?
James Morley, ed., Japan's Foreign Policy (1868-1941)
Marius Jansen, Japan and China from War to Peace, 1894-1972
Iriye, Akira, ed., the Chinese and Japanese
Dorothy Borg and Shumpei Okamoto, eds., Pearl harbor as History: Japanese-American Relations 1931-1941

D. Prewar Economy and Society
*Michael Lewis, Rioters and Citizens, (1918 Rice Riots)
*William Wray, Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K. (shipping industry, 1870 1914
*Byron Marshall, Capitalism and Nationalism in Prewar Japan
*Andrew Gordon, The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan
*John G. Roberts, Mitsui: Three Centuries of Japanese Business (1985)
*William Miles Flectcher, The Japanese Business Community and National Trade Policy, 1920-1942
*Jerome B. Cohen, Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction (1949)
William Lockwood, The Economic Development of Japan: Growth and Structural Change, 1868-1938
George C. Allen, A Short Economic History of Japan
*Koji Taira and Miko Sumiya, An Outline of Japanese Economic History
*Nakamura, Takafusa, Economic Growth in Prewar Japan
*Hirschmeir, Johannes and Tsunehiko Yui, The Development of Japanese Business, 1600-1973
Sugiyama, Shin'ya, Japan's Industrialization in the World Economy 1859-1899
Jon Halliday, A Political History of Japanese Capitalism
*Ronald P. Dore, Land Reform in Japan
*Gary Allinson, Japanese Urbanism: Industry and Politics in Kariya, 1872-1972
*Richard Smethurst, A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism
Iwao Ayusawa, A History of Labor in Modern Japan (also post-war)
Stephen Large, The Yuaikai: The Rise of Labor in Japan
*Stephen Large, Organized workers and Socialist Politics in Interwar Japan
*Andrew Gordon, Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan
*Andrew Gordon, The Evolution of Labor Relations in Modern Japan 1853-1955
*Robert a. Scalapino, The Early Japanese Labor Movement
Stephen Marsland, The Birth of the Japanese Labor Movement
*Richard Smethurst, Agricultural Development and Tenancy Disputes in Japan, 1870-1940
*Ann Waswo, Japanese Landlords
*Penelope Francks, Technology and Agricultural Development in Pre War Japan
*Thomas Havens, Valley of Darkness: the Japanese people and World War II
*John Embree, Suye Mura: A Japanese Village (1939)
*Robert J. Smith, the Women of Suye Mura
*E. Patricia Tsurumi, Factory Girls (Meiji)
*Hane, Mikiso, Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
*Gail L. Bernstein, ed. Recreating the Japanese Woman (Tokugawa and prewar)
*Sharon L. Sievers, Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan
Mariko Asano Tamanoi, Under the Shadow of Nationalism. Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women (1998)
Ishimoto, Baroness Shidzue, Facing Two Ways (autobiography of leading prewar feminist).
Helen M. Hopper, A New Woman of Japan. A Political Biography of Kato Shidzue (1996)
Kathleen Molony, One Women Who Dared: Ichikawa Fusae and the Japanese Women's Suffrage Move (Ph.D diss.)
*Ian Neary, Political Protest and Social Control in Prewar Japan (burakumin or outcast movement)
Michael Weiner, the Origins of the Korean community in Japan
(1868-1920s)
*Michael Weiner, Race and Migration in Imperial Japan

Reference:
William Lockwood, ed., the State and Economic Enterprise in Japan
Ronald P. Dore, ed., Aspects of Social Change in Modern Japan

E. Prewar and Wartime Ideology and Intellectuals
*Irwin Scheiner, Christian Converts and Social Protest in Meiji Japan
*John D. Pierson, Tokutomi Soho, 1863-1957
*Najita, Tetsuo, Japan
*Donald Roden, Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite
*Mark Lincicome, Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan
*Horio, Teruhisa, Educational thought and Ideology in Modern Japan: State Authority and Intellectual Freedom
*Byron K. Marshall, Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University, 1868-1939
*James Bartholomew, The Formation of Science in Japan
*Miriam Silverberg, Changing Song (interwar intellectual and culture)
Bamba, Nobuya and John f. Howes, eds., Pacificism in Japan: The Christian and Socialist Tradition
*William Miles Fletcher, The Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan
*Thomas havens, Fram and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism 1870-1940
*George M. Wilson, Radical Nationalist in Japan: Kita Ikki
*Henry D. Smith, Japan's First Student Radical (1918-1934)
*Elise Tipton, The Japanese Police State: The Tokko in Interwar Japan
*Richard H. Mitchell, Thought Control in Prewar Japan
*Richard H. Mitchell, Censorship in Imperial Japan
*Richard H. Mitchell, Janus-Faced Justice: Political Criminals in Imperial Japan
*Gregory Kasza, the State and Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945
*Jay Rubin, Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State
*Germaine Hoston, Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan
*Germaine Hoston, The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
*Gail Bernstein, Japanese marxist: Kawakami Hajime
*Sharon Nolte, Liberalism in Modern Japan
Hirai,Atsuko, Individualism and Socialism: The Life and Thought of Kawai Eijiro (prewar liberal)
*J. Thomas Rimer, ed., culture and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals During the Interwar Years
*Chalmers Johnson, An Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring
Arima, Tatsui, The Failure of Freedom: A Portrait of the Modern Japanese Intellectual
*James Ketelarr, Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan (persecution of Buddhism)
*Thomas Nadolski, the Socio-Political Background of the 1921 and 1935 Omoto Suppressions in Japan (Ph.D. diss.)
Kazuko Tsurumi, Social Change and the Individual: Japan Before and After Defeat in World War II
*Victor Koschmann, ed., Authority and the Individual in Japan (also postwar)
Thomas A. Stanley, Osuqi Sakae: Anarchist in Taisho Japan
*Helen Hardacre, Shinto and the State (also postwar)
*Gregory Kasza, The State and Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945
*Andrew Barshay, State and Intellectual in Prewar Japan
*Tsurumi, Shunsuke, An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan
Brian Victoria, Zen at War (1998)

F. Occupation
*Masanori Nakamura, The Japanese Monarchy: Ambassador Grew and the Making of the "Symbol Emperor System," 1931 1991
*Robert E. Ward and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, eds., Democratizing Japan
Shoichi Koseki, The Birth of Japan's Postwar Constitution (1997)
*Robert Wolfe, ed., American as Proconsuls (occupation of Germany and Japan)
*Joe Moore, Japanese Workers and the Struggle for Power, 1954 1974
*Kzauo Kawai, Japan's American Interlude
*Richard Minear, Victor's Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trials
*Hosoya, Chihiro et al., The Tokyo War Crime Trial: An International Symposium
*John Dower, Japan in War and Peace (essays on emperor, thought police, U.S.-Japan relations, culture, etc.)
Philip Picciagallo, The Japanese on Trial (war crimes)
*John Dower, Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954
Justin Williams, Japan's Political Revolution under MacArthur
Hans Baerwald, The Purge of Japanese Leaders Under the Occupation
*Chalmers Johnson, Conspiracy at Matsukawa
Grant Goodman, The American Occupation: A Retrospective View
*Nishi, Toshio, Unconditional Democracy: Education and Politics in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
*Eleanor Hadley, Antitrust in Japan
*Ronald P. Dore, Land Reform in Japan
*Theodore Cohen, Remaking Japan (memoirs of SCAP official)
*The Occupation of Japan (MacArthur Memorial series, several volumes
Roger Buckley, Occupation Diplomacy: Britain, The United States and Japan, 1945-1952
*Michael Yoshitsu, Japan and the San Francisco Peace Settlement
Joseph Trainor, Educational Reform in Occupied Japan
*Michael Schaller, The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia
Howard Schoenberg, Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan
*William P. Woodward, The Allied Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952, and Japanese Religions (1972)
Herbert Passin, ed., The United States and Japan (Ward essay)
Mark Sandler, The Confusion Era. Art and Culture in Japan During the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1945-52 (1998)
*Beate Sirota. The Only Woman in the Room (1998)
Jon Livingston, et al., eds., The Japan Reader 2: Postwar Japan
Yoshida, Shigeru, The Yoshida Memoirs (1962)
Richard B. Finn, Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan

G. Postwar Japan
*Chalmers Johnson, Japan, Who Governs?: The Rise of the Developmental State (1995)
*Kenneth B. Pyle, The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era
*Richard J. Samuels, "Rich Nation, Strong Army": National Security and Ideology in Japan's Technological Transformation
*Karrel Van Wolferen, The Enigma of Japanese Power (1989)
*James Fallows, Looking at the Sun (1994)
*Eamonn Fingleton, Blindside: Why Japan is Still on Track to Overtake the U.S. by the year 2,000 (1995)
*David Williams, Japan: Beyond the End of History (1994)
*J. Mark Ramseyer and Francis McCall Rosenbluth, Japan's Political Marketplace (1993)
*Kent Calder, Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan (1988)
*Gary D. Allinson and Sone Yasunori, eds., Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan (1993)
*Gerald Curtis, The Japanese Way of Politics (1988)
*Fukui, Haruhiro, Party in Power: The Japanese Liberal Democrats and Policy Making (1970)
Robert Scalapino and Junnosuke Masumi, Parties and Politics in Contemporary Japan (1962, good on Security Treaty Crisis)
*George Packard, Protest in Tokyo: The Security Treaty Crisis: of 1960
*Robert Scalpaino, The Japanese Communist Movement, 1920-1966
*Allen Cole, George Totten and C. Uyehara, Socialist Parties in Postwar Japan (1966)
*Yamamura, Kozo and Yasukichi Yasuba, ed., The Political Economy of Japan: The Domestic Transformation
*Inoguchi, Takashi and Daniel Okimoto, ed., The Political Economy of Japan: the Changing International Context (1988)
*Shumpei Kumon and Henry Rosovsky, eds., The Political Economy of Japan: Cultural and Social Dynamics (1992)
Watanuki, Joji, Politics in Postwar Japan (1977)
*Ronald Hrebenar, ed., The Japanese party System (1986)
Tsurutani, Taketsugu, Political Change in Japan (1977)
Nathaniel Thayer, How the Conservatives Rule Japan (1969)
Stockwin, J.A.A., Japan: Divided Politics in a Growth Economy
Ishida, Takeshi, and Ellis Krause, eds., Democracy in Japan
*Gavan McCormack and Yoshio Sugimoto, eds., Democracy in Contemporary Japan
Jacob Schlesinger, Shadow Shoguns. The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machine
Kubota, Akira, Higher Civil Servants in Postwar Japan (1969)
Ivan Morris, Nationalism and the Right Wing in Japan (1960)
*Benjamin Duke, Japan's Militant Teachers: A Hisotry of the Left Wing Teachers' Movement (1973)
Donald R. Thurston, Teachers and Politics in Japan (1973)
Herbert Passin, Society and Education in Japan (1965)
*William K. Cummings, Education and Equality in Japan
*Thomas Rohlen, Japan's High Schools
Benjamin Duke, The Japanese School: Lessons for Industrial America
Horio, Teruhisa, Educational Thought and Ideology in Modern Japan (issues of intellectual freedom)
Merry White, The Japanese Educational Challenge
Joy Hendry, Becoming Japanese (pre-school education)
*David Apter and N. Sawa, Against the State (Narita Airport protest)
Ellis Krause, Japanese Radicals Revisited: Student Protest in Postwar Japan
*Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth in Industrial Policy, 1925-1975
*Richard J. Samuels, The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective (1987)
Laura Hein, Feuling Growth: The Energy Revolution and Economic Policy in Postwar Japan (1990)
Leonard Lynn and Timothy McKeown, Organizing Business: Trade Associations in America and Japan
Edward J. Lincoln, Japan: Facing Economic Maturity (1988)
*Yanaga, Chitoshi, Big Business in japanese Politics (1968)
*Ronald Dore, British Factory/Japanese Factory
*Michael Cusumano, The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota
Kamata, Satoshi, Japan in the Passing Lane: An Insider's Account of Life in a Japanese Auto Factory
Ehud Harari, The Politics of Labor Legislation in Japan
*John C. Campbell, How Policies Change: the Japanese Government and the Aging Society (1992)
Stephen J. Anderson, Welfare Policy and Politics in Japan
*Nakamura, Takafusa, The Postwar Japanese Economy
Jeffreu Broadbent, Environmental Politics in Japna. Networks of Power and Protest (1998)
*Yamamura, Kozo, Economic Policy in Postwar Japan: Growth vs. Economic Democracy (1967)
*Hugh Patrick with Larry Meisner, Japanese Industrialization and its Social Consequences (1976)
Hugh Patrick and Henry Rosovsky, eds., Asia's New Giant: How the Japanese Economy Works (1976)
*Daniel Okimoto, Japan's Economy: Coping with Change in the International Environment
*George C. Allen, The Japanese Economy (1986)
*M. Y. Yoshino, Japan's Managerial System (1968)
Kobayashi, Kesaji, and Hidemeas Morikawa, eds., Development of Managerial Enterprise (business history)
*Ronald Dore and Sinha Radha, Japan and World Depression (1930s and present)
*Ronald Dore, Taking Japan Seriously (Confucian perspective on economic issues)
*Ronald Dore, Flexible Rigidities (industrial policy, 1970s)
*Gil L. Berstein, Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community
Jennifer Robertson, Takarazuka. Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan
Susan Pharr, Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan (women)
*Mary C. Brinton, Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan (1993)
Joyce Lebra, et al., Women in Changing Japan (1976)
Takie Sugiyama Lebra, Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment
Sumiko Iwao, The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality (1993)
*Janet Hunter, ed., Japanese Women Working (1995)
*Samuel Coleman, Family Planning in Japan
*William LaFleur, Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan (1992)
Ofra Gildstein-Gidoni, Packaged Japaneseness. Weddings, Business and Brides (1998)
*Susan Pharr, Political Women in Japan
*Dorothy Robins-Mowry, The Hidden Sun: The Women of Modern Japan
Anne Imamura, Urban Japanese Housewives
Anne Imamura, ed., Re-imaging Japanese Women (1995)
Jung Bock Lee, The Political Character of the Japanese Press
*Richard Mitchell, The Korean Minority in Japan
Lee, Chang Soo and George De Vos, Koreans in Japan
George De Vos and Hiroshi Wagatsuma, Japan's Invisible Race (1967)
Helen Hardacre, Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan
*Helen Hardacre, Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan
*James W. White, The Sokaqakkai and Mass Society (1970, new religions)
*Robert J. Smith, Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Japan
*Huddle and Michael Reich, Island of Dreams (Pollution cases)
*Margaret McKean, Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan
Stephen Vlastos, ed., Mirror of Modernity. Invented Traditions of Modern Japan
*Theodore Bestor, Neighborhood Tokyo
*Ronald P. Dore, City Life in Japan (1958)
*Ronald P. Dore, Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village (1978)
*Robert J. Smith, Kurusu: The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951-1975
Richard Beardsley, John W. Hall and Robert E. Ward, Village Japan (1959)
Ezra Vogel, Japan's New Middle Class (1963)
Malcolm McIntosh, Japan Re-armed
Meiron and Susan Harries, Sheathing the Sword: The Demilitarization of Postwar Japan
Joshua Katz, Japan's New World Role
James W. Morley, The Pacific Basin: New Challenges for the U.S.
Okazaki, Hisahiko, A Grand Strategy for Japanese Defense
Robert Ozaki and Walter Arnold, Japan's Foreign Relations
Jeffrey Frankel and Miles Kahler, eds., Regionalism and Rivalry: Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia (1993)
Iriye, Akira, Mutual Images: Essays in American-Japanese Relations (1975)
Donald Hellman, Japanese Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics: The Peace Agreement with the Soviet Union (1969)
Lawrence Olson, Japan in Postwar Asia (1970)
Basil Entwistle, Japan's Decisive Decade (1950s-Politics and Diplomacy)
Frederick Dunn, Peace-Making and the Settlement with Japan (1963)
*Marvin Wolf, The Japanese Conspiracy (handle with care!)
*Robert J. Smith, Japanese Society: Tradition, Self and the Social Order (1983)
*Frank Upham, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan
Morishima, Michio, Why has Japan "Succeeded"?: Western Technology and the Japanese Ethos (1982)
Rob Steven, Classes in Contemporary Japan (1983)
James white, Migration in Metropolitan Japan
*Tsurumi, Shunsuke, A Cultural History of Postwar Japan
*Peter N. Dale, The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness
Thomas Crump, The Death of an Emperor (Showa Emperor)
*Showa: The Japan of Hirohito (spec. issue of Daedalus. 119, no. 2, Summer 1990)
*Stephen Large, Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography
Mike Mochizuki. Japan Reorients. The Quest for Wealth and Security in East Asia (1998).

Reference:
*Ishida, Takeshi, and Ellis Krauss, eds., Democracy in Japan
E. Patricia Tsurumi, ed., The Other Japan (Women, A-Bomb Victims, the Poor)
T. J. Pempel, Policy and Politics in Japan (1982)
Ezra Vogel, ed., Modern Japanese Organization and Decision Making (1975)
T. J. Pempel, ed., Policymaking in Contemporary Japan (1977)
Ellis Krause et al., Conflict in Japan
*Gavan McCormack and Yoshio Sugimoto, eds., The Japanese Trajectory: Modernization and Beyond