23 Best

Japanese History Books

1

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

2

The Making of Modern Japan

3

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

4

Hiroshima

5

A History of Japan

6

Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps

7

The Rape of Nanking

8

Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period

9

The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45

10

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912

11

Early Modern Japan

12

Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan

13

Memoirs of a Geisha

14

Japan at War: An Oral History

15

Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan

16

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

17

Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

18

Showa 1944-1953: A History of Japan

19

Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back

20

A Concise History of Japan

21

Japan and the Shackles of the Past

22

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army