Japan

by Edwin Reischauer

  THOMAS C. SMITH, Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization (California, 1988).

  ROBERT N. BELLAH, Tokugawa Religion: The Values of Pre-Industrial Japan (The Free Press, 1957).

  SHIGERU MATSUMOTO, Mootori Norinaga, 1730–1801 (Harvard, 1970).

  JOHN WHITNEY HALL AND MARIUS B. JANSEN, Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan (Princeton, 1968).

  R. P. DORE, Education in Tokugawa Japan (California, 1965).

  THOMAS C. SMITH, The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan (Stanford, 1970).

  C. D. SHELDON, The Rise of the Merchant Class in Tokugawa Japan, 1600–1868 (Locust Valley, N.Y., 1958).

  CONRAD TOTMAN, Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1600–1843 (Harvard, 1967).

  W. G. BEASLEY, The Modern History of Japan (St. Martin’s, 1981).

  HUGH BORTON, Japan’s Modern Century (Ronald Press, 1970).

  PETER DUUS, The Rise of Modern Japan (Houghton Mifflin, 1976).

  RICHARD STORRY, A History of Modern Japan (Penguin, 1974).

  MARIUS B. JANSEN AND GILBERT ROZMAN, eds., Japan in Transition: From Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton, 1986).

  HARRY WRAY AND HILARY CONROY, eds., Japan Examined: Perspectives on Modern Japanese History (Hawaii, 1983).

  BOB TADASHI WAKABAYASHI, Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825 (Harvard, 1986).

  W. G. BEASLEY, The Meiji Restoration (Stanford, 1973).

  ALBERT M. CRAIG, Choshu in the Meiji Restoration (Harvard, 1961).

  MARIUS B. JANSEN, Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration (Princeton, 1961).

  EIICHI KIYOOKA, tr., The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa (Columbia, 1966).

  CARMEN BLACKER, The Japanese Enlightenment: A Study of the Writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi (Cambridge, 1964).

  E. H. NORMAN, Japan’s Emergence as a Modern State (Institute of Pacific Relations, 1940).

  JOHN W. DOWER, ed., Origins of the Modern Japanese State: Selected Writings of E. H. Norman (Pantheon, 1975).

  GEORGE SANSOM, The Western World and Japan (Knopf, 1950).

  WILLIAM R. BRAISTED, Meiroku Zasshi: Journal of the Japanese Enlightenment (Harvard, 1976).

  J. HIRSCHMEIER, The Origins of Entrepreneurship in Japan (Harvard, 1964).

  MARIUS P. JANSEN, ed., Changing Japanese Attitudes toward Modernization (Princeton, 1965).

  R. P. DORE, ed., Aspects of Social Change in Modern Japan (Princeton, 1967).

  DONALD H. SHIVELY, ed., Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture (Princeton, 1971).

  WILLIAM W. LOCKWOOD, ed., The State and Economic Enterprise in Japan (Princeton, 1965).

  ROBERT E. WARD, ed., Political Development in Modern Japan (Princeton, 1968).

  ROBERT A. SCALAPINO, Democracy and the Party Movement in Prewar Japan (California, 1953).

  GEORGE AKITA, Foundations of Constitutional Government in Modern Japan (Harvard, 1967).

  ROGER F. HACKETT, Yamagata Aritomo in the Rise of Modern Japan 1838–1922 (Harvard, 1971).

  IVAN HALL, Mori Arinori (Harvard, 1973).

  ALBERT M. CRAIG, ed., Japan: A Comparative View (Princeton, 1979).

  JOSEPH PITTAU, Political Thought in Early Meiji Japan (Harvard, 1967).

  IRWIN SCHEINER, Christian Converts and Social Protest in Japan (California, 1970).

  JOHANNES SIEMES, Hermann Roesler and the Making of the Meiji State (Tuttle, 1968).

  TETSUO NAJITA, Hara Kei and the Politics of Compromise 1905–1915 (Harvard, 1967).

  PETER DUUS, Party Rivalry and Political Change in Taisho Japan (Harvard, 1967).

  ALBERT M. CRAIG AND DONALD H. SHIVELY, eds., Personality in Japanese History (California, 1970).

  ROBERT M. SPAULDING, Imperial Japan’s Higher Civil Service Examinations (Princeton, 1967).

  WILLIAM W. LOCKWOOD, The Economic Development of Japan: Growth and Structural Change, 1868–1938 (Princeton).

  RUTH BENEDICT, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (Meridian World).

  HENRY SMITH, Japan’s First Student Radicals (Harvard, 1972).

  AKIRA IRIYE, After Imperialism: The Search for a New Order in the Far East, 1921–1931 (Princeton, 1965).

  TATSUO ARIMA, The Failure of Freedom: A Portrait of the Modern Japanese Intellectual (Harvard, 1969).

  ROGER DINGMAN, Power in the Pacific: The Origins of Naval Arms Limitations (University of Chicago, 1976).

  BYRON K. MARSHALL, Capitalism and Nationalism in Prewar Japan: The Ideology of the Business Elite 1868–1941 (Stanford, 1967).

  FRANK O. MILLER, Minobe Tatsukichi, Interpreter of Constitutionalism in Japan (California, 1965).

  GEORGE O. TOTTEN, The Social Democratic Movement in Prewar Japan (Yale, 1966).

  JAMES B. CROWLEY, Japan’s Quest for Autonomy: National Security and Foreign Policy, 1930–1938 (Princeton, 1966).

  DAIKICHI IROKAWA (tr. and ed. by Marius B. Jansen), The Culture of the Meiji Period (Princeton, 1981).

  CAROL GLUCK, Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton, 1985).

  ANDREW GORDON, The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853–1955 (Harvard, 1985).

  HARU MATSUKATA REISCHAUER, Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage (Harvard, 1986).

  RAMON H. MYERS AND MARK R. PEATTIE, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895–1945 (Princeton, 1984).

  DOROTHY BORG AND SHUMPEI OKAMOTO, eds., Pearl Harbor as History (Columbia, 1973).

  HERBERT FEIS, The Road to Pearl Harbor (Princeton, 1950).

  JOSEPH GREW, Ten Years in Japan (Simon and Schuster, 1944).

  JON LIVINGSTON, JOE MOORE, AND FELICIA OLDFATHER, eds., The Japan Reader: Imperial Japan 1800–1945 (Pantheon, 1973).

  YALE C. MAXON, Control of Japanese Foreign Policy: A Study of Civil-Military Rivalry (California, 1957).

  JAMES W. MORLEY, Dilemmas of Growth in Prewar Japan (Princeton, 1976).

  RICHARD J. SMETHURST, A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism: The Army and the Rural Community (California, 1974).

  THOMAS R. H. HAVENS, Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism 1870–1940 (Princeton, 1974).

  ROBERT J. C. BUTOW, Tojo and the Coming of the War (Princeton, 1961).

  F. C. JONES, Japan’s New Order in East Asia (Oxford, 1954).

  JOHN TOLAND, The Rising Sun: Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936–1945 (Random House, 1971).

  THOMAS R. H. HAVENS, Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two (Norton, 1978).

  ROBERT J. BUTOW, Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Stanford).

  AKIRA IRIYE, Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945 (Harvard, 1981).

  JOHN W. DOWER, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Pantheon Books, 1986).

  KAZUO KAWAI, Japan’s American Interlude (University of Chicago, 1960).

  JOHN C. PERRY, Beneath the Eagle’s Wings: Americans in Occupied Japan (Dodd, Mead, 1980).

  EDWIN O. REISCHAUER, The United States and Japan (Compass).

  MASATAKA KOSAKA, 100 Million Japanese: The Postwar Experience (Kodansha, 1972).

  ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Fragile Blossom: Crisis and Change in Japan (Harper & Row, 1972).

  JOHN EMERSON, Arms, Yen and Power: The Japanese Dilemma (Dunellen, 1971).

  ROBERT C. WARD, Japan’s Political System (Prentice-Hall, 1978).

  J. A. A. STOCKWIN, Divided Politics in a Growth Economy (Norton, 1975).

  JON LIVINGSTON, JOE MOORE, AND FELICIA OLDFATHER, eds., The Japan Reader: Postwar Japan 1945 to the Present (Pantheon, 1973).

  T. J. PEMPEL, Japan: The Dilemmas of Success (Foreign Policy Association, 1986).

  FRANK GIBNEY, Japan: The Fragile Superpower (New American Library, 1985).

  ROBERT WARD AND YOSHIKAZU SAKAMOTO
, eds., Democratizing Japan (Hawaii, 1987).

  ROGER BUCKLEY, Japan Today (Cambridge University Press, 1985).

  EZRA F. VOGEL, Japan as No. 1: Lessons for America (Harvard, 1979).

  JARED TAYLOR, Shadows on the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle (Quill, 1983).

  ARDATH W. BURKS, Japan: A Postindustrial Society (Westview, 1984).

  KURT STEINER, Local Government in Japan (Stanford, 1965).

  ARTHUR TAYLOR VON MEHREN, ed., Law in Japan: The Legal Order in a Changing Society (Harvard, 1963).

  GEORGE R. PACKARD, Protest in Tokyo: The Security Treaty Crisis of 1960 (Princeton, 1966).

  NATHANIEL P. THAYER, How the Conservatives Rule Japan (Princeton, 1969).

  HARUHIRO FUKUI, Party in Power: The Japanese Liberal-Democrats and Policy-Making (California, 1970).

  GERALD CURTIS, Election Campaigning Japanese Style (Columbia, 1971).

  ALLAN B. COLE, GEORGE O. TOTTEN, AND CECIL H. UYEHARA, Socialist Parties in Postwar Japan (Yale, 1966).

  AKIRA KUBOTA, Higher Civil Servants in Postwar Japan (Princeton, 1969).

  PAUL LANGER, Communism in Japan (California, 1972).

  JOSEPH A. MASSEY, Youth and Politics in Japan (Lexington Books, 1976).

  I. I. MORRIS, Nationalism and the Right Wing in Japan (Oxford, 1960).

  T. J. PEMPEL, Policy Making in Contemporary Japan (Cornell, 1977).

  ROBERT A. SCALAPINO, The Japanese Communist Movement 1920–1966 (California, 1967).

  J. W. DOWER, Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878–1954 (Harvard, 1980).

  GERALD L. CURTIS, The Japanese Way of Politics (Columbia, 1988).

  BRADLEY M. RICHARDSON AND SCOTT C. FLANAGAN, Politics in Japan (Little, Brown, 1984).

  RONALD J. HREBENAR, The Japanese Party System: From One-Party Rule to Coalition Government (Westview, 1986).

  MARGARET A. MCKEAN, Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan (California, 1981).

  STEVEN REED, Japanese Prefectures and Policymaking (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986).

  KURT STEINER, ELLIS S. KRAUSS, AND SCOTT C. FLANAGAN, eds., Political Opposition and Local Politics in Japan (Princeton, 1980).

  KOZO YAMAMURA AND KOMAKICHI YASUBA, eds., The Political Economy of Japan. Vol. I. The Domestic Transformation (Stanford, 1987).

  R. P. DORE, Land Reform in Japan (California, 1958).

  EZRA F. VOGEL, Japan’s New Middle Class: The Salary Man and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb (California, 1971).

  KOZO YAMAMURA, Economic Policy in Postwar Japan: Growth vs. Economic Democracy (California, 1967).

  JAMES C. ABEGGLEN, Management and the Worker: The Japanese Solution (Kodansha, 1973).

  R. P. DORE, British Factory, Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Employment Relations (California, 1973).

  SHELDON GARON, The State and Labor in Modern Japan (California, 1987).

  ROBERT CHRISTOPHER, The Japanese Mind (Faucett Columbine, 1984).

  TADASHI FUKUTAKE, Japanese Society Today (Tokyo University Press, 1981).

  TADASHI FUKUTAKE, The Japanese Social Structure: Its Evolution in the Modern Century (Tokyo University Press, 1982).

  TAKEO DOI, The Anatomy of Dependence (Kodansha, 1971).

  CHIE NAKANE, Japanese Society (California, 1970).

  R. P. DORE, City Life in Japan: A Study of a Tokyo Ward (California, 1958).

  R. P. DORE, Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village (Pantheon, 1978).

  GAIL L. BERNSTEIN, Haruko’s World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community (Stanford, 1983).

  HERBERT PASSIN, Society and Education in Japan (Columbia, 1965).

  THOMAS P. ROHLEN, Japan’s High Schools (California, 1983).

  MERRY WHITE, The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children (The Free Press, 1987).

  KOZO YAMAMURA, Economic Policy in Postwar Japan: Growth vs. Economic Democracy (California, 1967).

  HUGH PATRICK AND HENRY ROSOVSKY, eds., Asia’s New Giant: How the Japanese Economy Works (Brookings, 1976).

  ELEANOR M. HADLEY, Antitrust in Japan (Princeton, 1970).

  M. Y. YOSHINO, Japan’s Multinational Enterprises (Harvard, 1976).

  ROBERT E. COLE, Japanese Blue Collar (California, 1971).

  KUNIO YOSHIHARA, Japanese Economic Development: A Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 1979).

  G. C. ALLEN, The Japanese Economy (St. Martin’s, 1982).

  CHALMERS JOHNSON, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975 (Stanford, 1982).

  KUNIO YOSHIHARA, Sogo Shosha: The Vanguard of the Japanese Economy (Harvard, 1982).

  RODNEY C. CLARK, The Japanese Company (Yale, 1979).

  MICHAEL A. CUSUMANO, The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota (Harvard, 1985).

  W. MARK FRUM, Kikkoman Company, Clan, and Community (Harvard, 1983).

  THOMAS PEPPER AND MERIT E. JANOW, The Competition: Dealing with Japan (Praeger, 1983).

  THOMAS K. MCCRAW, ed., America versus Japan: A Comparative Study (Harvard Business School Press, 1986).

  DANIEL I. OKIMOTO, ed., Japan’s Economy: Coping with Change in the International Environment (Westview, 1982).

  ROBERT A. SCALAPINO, ed., The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan (California, 1977).

  I. M. DESTLER, HIDEO SATO, AND PRISCILLA CLAPP, eds., Managing an Alliance: The Politics of U.S.-Japanese Relations (Brookings, 1976).

  I. M. DESTLER, HARUHIRO FUKUI, AND HIDEO SATO, The Textile Wrangle: Conflict in Japanese-American Relations, 1969–1971 (Cornell).

  FRANKLIN B. WEINSTEIN, ed., U.S.-Japan Relations and the Security of East Asia (Westview, 1978).

  MARTIN E. WEINSTEIN, Japan’s Postwar Defense Policy 1947–1968 (Columbia, 1971).

  ROBERT S. OZAKI AND WALTER ARNOLD, eds., Japan’s Foreign Relations: A Global Search for Economic Security (Westview, 1985).

  CHARLES E. NEU, The Troubled Encounter: The United States and Japan (Wiley, 1973).

  WILLIAM I. NEUMANN, America Encounters Japan: From Perry to Mac Arthur (Johns Hopkins, 1963).

  HOLLAND HARRISON, Managing Diplomacy: The U.S. and Japan (Hoover Institution, 1984).

  EDWIN O. REISCHAUER, My Life Between Japan and America (Harper & Row, 1986).

  ALBRECHT ROTHACKER, Economic Diplomacy Between the European Community and Japan, 1959–1981 (Gower, 1983).

  WOLF MENDEL, Western Europe and Japan Between the Super Powers (St. Martin’s, 1984).

  TSOUKALIS LOUKAS AND MAUREEN WHITE, eds., Japan and Western Europe (St. Martin’s, 1982).

  ALAN RIX AND ROSE MOUER, eds., Japan’s Impact on the World (Canberra Japanese Studies Association of Australia, 1984).

  JOSHUA D. KATZ AND TILLY C. FRIEDMAN-LICHTECHEIN, eds., Japan’s New World Role (Westview, 1985).

  KENICHI OHMAE, Triad Power: The Coming Shape of Global Competition (The Free Press, 1985).

  ALBERT M. CRAIG, ed., Japan: A Comparative View (Princeton, 1978).

  EZRA F. VOGEL, ed., Modern Japanese Organization and Decision Making (California, 1975).

  ELLIS S. KRAUSS, THOMAS P. ROHLEN, AND PATRICIA G. STEINHOFF, eds., Conflict in Japan (Hawaii, 1984).

  KENT E. CALDER, Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan, 1949–1986 (Princeton, 1988).

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