MODERN TOTALITARIANISM: JAPAN

READING LIST (Japanese listed below)

GENERAL HISTORY

Totman, Conrad. A History of Japan. Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Henshall, Kenneth G. A History of Japan : From Stone Age To Superpower. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 1999.

Mason, R.H.P. and J.G. Caiger. A History of Japan. Rutland, VT : C.E. Tuttle Co., 1997.

Morton, W. Scott. Japan: Its history and Culture. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Beasley, W.G. The Japanese Experience : A Short History of Japan. Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, 2000.

RELIGION

Hardacre, Helen. Shinto and the State, 1868-1988. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1989.  This describes how the expansion of relations between Shinto and the state took place from the end of the Russo-Japanese War (1905) to the end of Pacific War (1945).

Victoria, Brian. Zen at War. New York, Weatherhill, 1997. The author shows how Zen provided ideological and spiritual foundation for the Japanese military with historical documents of Japanese Zen masters in war time.

AXIS
 

Boyd, Carl. The extraordinary envoy: General Hiroshi Oshima and diplomacy in the Third Reich, 1934-1939. University Press of America, 1980.

Boyd, Carl. Hitler’s Japanese confident: General Oshima Hiroshi and MAGIC intelligence, 1941-1945.  University Press of Kansas, 1993.

Haunter, Milan. India in Axis strategy: Germany, Japan, and Indian nationalists in the Second Word War. Klett-Cotta, 1981.

Kasza, Gregory. The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations (1995, compares wartime Japan, Italy, Germany, USSR). Yale University Press, 1995. 

Morley, James. Ed. Deterrent Diplomacy: Japan, Germany and the USSR 1935-1945 (Japan's road to the Pacific War Series). Columbia University Press, 1976.

Presseisen, Ernest. Germany and Japan; a study in totalitarian diplomacy, 1933-1941. The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1958. 

JAPAN VS. RUSSIA
 

Coox, Alvin D. Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939, Vols I&II . Stanford: Stanford University Press,  1985.

Coox, Alvin D. "Flawed Perception and its Effect upon Operational Thinking: The Case of the Japanese Army, 1937-41," in Michael I. Handel (ed.) Intelligence and Military Operations, London: Frank Cass and Company, 1990.

Coox, Alvin D. The Anatomy of a Small War: The Soviet-Japanese Struggle for Changkufeng/Khasan, 1938. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. Originally published London, 1977.

Drea, Edward J. Nomonhan: Japanese-Soviet Tactical Combat 1939. Leavenworth Paper #2. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute, U.S.Army Command and General Staff College, 1981.

IDEOLOGY

Barnhart, Michael A. Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941. Cornell University Press, 1987.

Beasley, W.G. Japan and the West in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Nationalism and the Origins of

Beasley, W.G. Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945. Oxford University Press, 1987.

Bergamini, David. Japan's Imperial Conspiracy: How Emperor Hirohito led Japan into war against the  West. William Morrow and Co., New York, 1971.

Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. Harper Collins, New York, 2000.

Boyle, John. H.  China and Japan at war, 1937-1945; the politics of collaboration. Stanford University Press, 1972.

Brooks, Lester. Behind Japan's Surrender: The Secret Struggle That Ended An Empire. McGraw-Hill, New

Butow, Robert C. Tojo and the Coming of the War, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 1961.

Clark, Blake, revised with historical notes by Daniel Martinez, Remember Pearl Harbor. Mutual  Publishing, Honolulu, 1942 and 1987.

Crowley, James. Japan's Quest for Autonomy. Princeton University, 1966.

Deacon, Richard.  Kempei Tai: A History of the Japanese Secret Service, Berkley Books, New York, 1983.

Delmer Myers, B. Nationalism in Japan: An Introductory Historical Analysis. 1971. Russell & Russell

Drea, Edward J. In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1998.

Drea. Edward J. "In the Army Barracks of Imperial Japan," from Armed Forces and Society 1989 15 (3), 329-348.

Duus, Peter. The abacus and the sword : the Japanese penetration of Korea, 1895-1910. University of California Press, 1995.

Duus, Peter. The Japanese informal empire in China, 1895-1937. Princeton University Press, 1989.

Duus, Peter. The Japanese wartime empire, 1931-1945. Princeton University Press. 1996.

Fletcher, William Miles. The Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan. University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

Gibney, Frank, Ed. translated by Beth Cary, Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War, from letters to the Editor of Asahi Shimbun.  M.E. Sharpe, Armonk and London, 1995.

Harries, Meiron and Susie. Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. New York: Random House, 1991.

Harris, Sheldon H. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932-1945 and the American Cover up. Routledge, London, 1994.

Havens, Tomas. Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism 1870-1940. Princeton University Press, 1974.

Hayashi, Saburo. Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War. (Quantico Va: Marine Corps Association, 1959).

Hoyt, Edwin P. Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986.

Humphreys, Leonard. The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920s. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Ienaga, Saburo. The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945. Pantheon Books, New York, 1978.

Ike, Nobutaka ed. Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conference. Stanford University Press, 1967.

Iriye, Akira. Across the Pacific: An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations. Harcourt, Brace & World , 1967.
Irie, Akira. After Imperialism: the Search for a New Order in Far East, 1921-1931. Imprint Publications, 1990.
Iriye, Akira.  The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. Longman, 1987.

Jones, Francis C. Japan's new order in east Asia: its rise and fall, 1937-45. Issued under the joint auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Institute of Pacific Relations. Oxford University Press, 1954.  

Kaplan, David E., and Dubro, Alec. Yakuza: The Explosive Account of Japan's Criminal Underworld. Collier Books, New York, 1986. -From the origin of Yakuza to the current Yakuza, this book provides comprehensive understanding about Yakuza. It includes the description of right wings groups such as Black Dragon Society in war time.

Kasza, Gregory. The State and Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1993.

Lebra, Joice. Ed. Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in World War II (documents). Oxford University Press, 1975.  With selections of writings of scholars and military men, the policy declarations of government in  the 1930s and early 1940s, the concept of the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is introduced.

MacKay, James. Betrayal in High Places. Tasman Archives, Auckland, 1996.

Maruyama, Masao.  Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics. Oxford University Press, 1969. 

Matsuo Kinoaki. How Japan Plans to Win. Translated by Kilsso Haan. Boston: Little, Brown, 1942. (First published in Oct., 1940. Kinoaki was said to be a Japanese intelligence officer and a high official in the Black Dragon Society.)

Matthews, Tony.  Shadows Dancing: Japanese Espionage Against the West, 1939-1945.  St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993.

Mayo, Marlene. ed., The Emergence of Imperial Japan: Self-Defense or Calculated Aggression? Heath, 1970.

McCormac, Charles, D.C.M. "You'll Die In Singapore", E.P. Dutton and Company, New York, 1955.

McCormack, Gavan. Chang Tso-lin in Northeast China, 1911–1928: China, Japan, and the Manchurian Idea. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1977.

Mitchell, Richard H Censorship in Imperial Japan. Princeton University Press, 1983. 

Mitchell, Richard H. Thought Control in Prewar Japan. Cornell University Press, 1976. 

Modern State (Raleigh Lectures on History). 1969. Longwood Press Ltd.

Morley, James William. Ed. Dilemmas of Growth in Prewar in Japan. (1930s). Princeton University Press, 1971.

Morley, James William. Ed.  Japan's Foreign Policy (1868-1941). Columbia University Press, 1974.

Morley, James William. ed., Dilemmas of Growth in prewar Japan (1930s). Princeton University, 1971. 

Morris, Ivan. ed. Japan 1931-1945: Militarism, Fascism, Japanism? Boston, Heath, 1963.

Morton, William Fitch. Tanaka Giichi and Japan's China Policy. St. Marin Press, 1980.

Myers, Ramon H.and Mark Peattie, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton University Press, 1983.

Najita, Tetsuo. Hara Kei and the Politics of Compromise, 1905-1959. Harvard University Press, 1967. 

Nish, Ian. ed.  Anglo-Japanese Alienation, 1919-1952. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Oates, L. Populist Nationalism in Pre-War Japan: A Biography of Nakano Seigo.1985.  Unwin Hyman.

Ogata, Sadako.  Defiance in Manchuria: The making of Japanese foreign policy, 1931-1932. University of California Press, 1964.  

Peattie, M.R.  Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's Confrontation With the West. 1975. Princeton University Press.   How Ishiwara Kanji’s thought gave an great impact on the Japanese military and its action on the Japanese seizure of Manchuria in 1931.

Randau, Carl, and Zugsmith, Leane.  The Setting Sun of Japan, Random House.  New York, 1942.

Roden, Donald. Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite. University of California Press, 1980.

Sakai, Saburo, with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito.  Samurai. Pocket Books, New York, 1996.

Shillony, Ben-Ami. Crisis politics in prewar Japan: Institutional and ideological problems of the 1930s. Sophia University, 1970.

Shillony, Ben-Ami. Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan. Clarendon Press, 1981.

Shillony, Ben-Ami. Revolt in Japan: The Young Officers and the February 26, 1936 Incident. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.

Smethurst, Richard. A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism: The Army and the Rural Community. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

Stahl, Bob, You're No Good To Me Dead: Behind Japanese Lines in the Philippines, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1995.

Storry, Richard. Japan and the Decline of the West in Asia, 1894-1942. St, Martin’s Press. 1979.

Storry, Richard. The Double Patriots (1930s young officers). Greenwood Press, 1973.

Tanaka, Baron Giichi, The Tanaka Memorial: Japan's Dream of World Empire, Carl Crow, Ed., Harper & Row, New York, 1942.

Tanaka, Yuki.  Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II. Westview Press, 1996.

Thorne, Cristopher. The Limits of Foreign Policy: The West, the league and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1931-1932. Putnam, 1972.

Tipton, Elise. Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930 s. Uniervsity of Hawai’I Press, 2000.

Tipton, Elise. The Japanese Police State: The Tokyo in Interwar Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

Titus, David. Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan. Columbia University Press, 1974.

Tsurumi, Shunsuke. An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan. Distributed by Routledge & K. Paul, 1986.

U.S. Department of War. TM-E 30-480 Handbook on Japanese Military Forces. U.S. War Department, Washington DC, 1 Oct., 1944. Republished by David Isby, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1991.

Wilson George Maclin, ed. Crisis Politics in Prewar Japan. Sophia University, 1970.

Wilson, George M. Radical Nationalist in Japan: Kita Ikki. Harvard University Press, 1969.

Yoshihashi, Takehiko. Conspiracy at Mukden: The Rise of the Japanese Military. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1980.

Yoshimura, Akira, translated by Retsu Kaiho and Michael Gregson. Zero Fighter.  Praeger, Westport, 1996.

Young, Louise. Japan's Total Empire. Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. University of California, 1998.