Culture and Education
Books on Japan
Politics | Economy | History | Literature | Culture | Society | Education | Social Security | Women | Religion | Popular Culture | Living, Working, and Traveling in Japan | Children's Books | Reference
The following list of books on Japan was compiled from suggestions provided by Japan scholars in the Boston area as of Spring 1998.
Books on Japan may be ordered through:
Kinokuniya, which has stores in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Politics
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Allinson, Gary & Sone, Y. | Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan | Cornell Press | 1993 |
Curtis, Gerald | The Japanese Way of Politics | Columbia U. Press | 1988 |
Flanagan, Scott C. | The Japanese Voter | Yale U. Press | 1991 |
Ishida Takeshi & Ellis Krauss, eds. | Democracy in Japan | Pittsburgh U. Press | 1989 |
Kim, Paul S. | Japan's Civil Service System | Greenwood Press | 1988 |
Kishima, Takako | Political Life in Japan | Princeton U. Press | 1991 |
Koh, B.C. | Japan's Administrative Elite | U. of Calif. Press | 1989 |
Reed, Steven | Japanese Prefectures and Policymaking | Pittsburgh U. Press | 1986 |
Weinstein, Martin E. | The Human Face of Japan's Leadership | Praeger | 1989 |
Economy
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Cusumano, Michael | The Japanese Automobile Industry | Harvard U. Press | 1985 |
Cusumano, Michael | Japan's Software Factories | Oxford U. Press | 1991 |
Dore, Ronald P. | Flexible Rigidities: Industrial Policy and Structural Adjustment in the Japanese Economy | Athlone | 1986 |
FAIR | Japan's Financial Markets | Tokyo: Foundation for Advanced Information and Research | 1991 |
Fruin, W. Mark | The Japanese Enterprise System: Competitive Strategies and Cooperative Structures | Clarendon Press | 1992 |
Gerlach, Michael L. | Alliance Capitalism: The Social Organization of Japanese Business | U. of Calif. Press | 1992 |
Hanami, Tadashi | Labor Relations in Japan Today | Kodansha | 1981 |
Imai, Kenichi & Ryutaro Komiya, eds. | Business Enterprise in Japan: Views of Leading Japanese Economists | MIT Press | 1994 |
Kernell, Samuel, ed. | Parallel Politics: Economic Policymaking in Japan and the United States | Brookings | 1991 |
Koike, Kazuo | Understanding Industrial Relations in Modern Japan | Macmillan | 1988 |
Kumon, Shumpei & Henry Rosovsky, eds. | The Political Economy of Japan: Vol. 3, Cultural and Social Dynamics | Stanford | 1992 |
Mason, Mark and Dennis Encarnation, eds. | Does Ownership Matter? Japanese Multinationals in Europe | Oxford U. Press | 1994 |
Miyazaki, Isamu | The Japanese Economy | Simul | 1990 |
Morishima, Michio | Why Has Japan "Succeeded"? Western Technology and the Japanese Ethos | Cambridge U. Press | 1982 |
Morita, Akio with Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura | Made in Japan | Dutton | 1986 |
Nonaka, Ikujiro and Hirataka Takeuchi | The Knowledge Creating Company | Oxford U. Press | 1995 |
Ohno, Taiichi | The Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production | Productivity Press | 1988 |
Okimoto, Daniel I. | Between MITI and the Market | Stanford U. Press | 1989 |
Patrick, Hugh, ed. | Japan's High-Technology Industries: Lessons and Limitations of Industrial Policy | U. of Wash. Press | 1986 |
Shibagaki, Kazuo, Malcolm Trevor, & Tetsuo Abo | Japanese and European Management: Their International Adaptability | Tokyo U. Press | 1989 |
Tanaka, Hiroshi | The Human Side of Japanese Enterprise | U. of Penn. Press | 1988 |
Tatsuno, Sheridan M. | Created in Japan: From Imitators to World Class Innovators | Ballinger | 1990 |
Viner, Aron | Inside Japanese Financial Markets | Dow Jones-Irwin | 1988 |
Westney, D. Eleanor | Imitation and Innovation | Harvard U. Press | 1987 |
Yamazaki, Mitsuru | Japan's Community-Based Industries: A Case Study of Small Industry | Asian Productivity Organization | 1980 |
Yoshino, M.Y. & Thomas Lifson | The Invisible Link: Japan's Sogo Shosha and the Organization of Trade | MIT Press | 1986 |
Politics | Economy | History | Literature | Culture | Society | Education | Social Security | Women | Religion | Popular Culture | Living, Working, and Traveling in Japan | Children's Books | Reference
History
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Cook, Haruko Taya & Theodore F. Cook | Japan at War: An Oral History | New Press | 1992 |
Dower, John W. | War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War | Pantheon | 1986 |
Gordon, Andrew, ed. | Postwar Japan as History | U. of Calif. Press | 1994 |
Iwao, Seiichi | Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History | Kodansha | 1978 |
Nakane, Chie, and Shinzaburo Oishi | Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan | U. of Tokyo Press | 1990 |
Reischauer, Edwin O. | Japan: The Story of a Nation | Alfred Knopf | 1981 |
Spector, Ronald H. | Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan | Vintage Books | 1985 |
Yoshida, Shigeru | The Yoshida Memoirs | Riverside Press | 1962 |
Literature
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Apostolou, John L., and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. | The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories | Dembner Books | 1989 |
Birnbaum, Alfred, ed. | Monkey, Brain, Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction | Kodansha | 1991 |
Brandon, James R., trans. | Kabuki: Five Classic Plays | Harvard U. Press | 1975 |
Cranston, Edwin A., trans. | A Waka Anthology, Vol. 1: The Gem-Glistening Cup | Stanford U. Press | 1993 |
Hibbett, Howard | Contemporary Japanese Literature: An Anthology of Fiction, Film, and Other Writings Since 1945 | Knopf | 1977 |
Kawabata, Yasunari | Japan the Beautiful and Myself | Kodansha Int'l | 1969 |
Kato, Shuichi | A History of Japanese Literature | Kodansha Int'l. | 1983 |
Keene, Donald, trans. | Major Plays of Chikamatsu | Columbia U. Press | 1990 |
Keene, Donald | Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature From Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century | Henry Holt & Co. | 1993 |
Keene, Donald, ed. | Twenty Plays of the Noh Theatre | Columbia U. Press | 1970 |
Keene, Donald | World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era | Holt, Rhinehart, & Winston | 1993 |
Kimball, Arthur G. | Crisis in Identity and Contemporary Japanese Novels | Tuttle | 1973 |
Matther, Robert | Japanese Science Fiction: A View of a Changing Society | Routledge and Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, U. of Oxford | 1989 |
McCullough, trans. | The Taiheiki | Columbia U. Press | 1959 |
McCullough, trans. | The Tale of the Heike | Stanford U. Press | 1988 |
Miner, Roy Earl | The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature | 1985 | |
Mitsios, Helen, ed. | New Japanese Voices: The Best Contemporary Fiction From Japan | Atlantic Monthly Press | 1991 |
Morioka, Heinz, and Miyoko Sasaki | Rakugo | East Asian Studies, Harvard | 1990 |
NGS | Haikai and Haiku | Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai | 1958 |
Oe, Kenzaburo | Japan the Ambiguous and Myself | Kodansha Int'l. | 1995 |
Philippi, Donald L., trans. | Kojiki | Princeton U. Press and U. of Tokyo Press | 1968 |
Satchell, Thomas, trans. | Hizakurige (Shank's Mare) | Tuttle | 1960 |
Seidensticker, Edward, trans. | The Tale of Genji | Knopf | 1976 |
Takaya, Ted T. | Modern Japanese Drama: An Anthology | Columbia U. Press | 1979 |
Wilson, Michiko N. | The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo: A Study of Themes and Techniques | M.E. Sharpe | 1986 |
Politics | Economy | History | Literature | Culture | Society | Education | Social Security | Women | Religion | Popular Culture | Living, Working, and Traveling in Japan | Children's Books | Reference
Culture
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Dalby, Liza | Kimono: Fashioning Culture | Yale U. Press | 1993 |
Desser, David | Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema | Indiana U. Press | 1988 |
Dorson, Richard M. | Studies in Japanese Folklore | Indiana U. Press | 1963 |
Lebra, Takie Sugiyama, and William P. Lebra, eds. | Japanese Culture and Behavior | U. of Hawaii Press | 1986 (revised edition) |
Matsuya Piece-Goods Store, compiled by | Japanese Design Motifs: 4260 Illustrations of Heraldic Crests | Dover Pictorial Arts Series | 1972 |
Okakura, Kakuzo | Book of Tea | Tuttle | 1979 |
Olsen, Lawrence | Ambivalent Moderns: Portraits of Japanese Cultural Identity | Rowman & Littlefield | 1992 |
Paine, Robert Treat, and Alexander Soper | The Art and Architecture of Japan, Third Edition | Penguin (Pelican History of Art) | 1981 |
Richie, Donald | Japanese Cinema: An Introduction | Oxford U. Press | 1990 |
Suzuki, Daisetz T. | Zen and Japanese Culture | Princeton U. Press | 1958 |
Yutaka, Tazawa | Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art | Kodansha | 1981 |
Society
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Ames, Walter L. | Police and Community in Japan | U. of Calif. Press | 1981 |
Benedict, Ruth | Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture | Houghton Mifflin | 1989 |
Bestor, Theodore | Neighborhood Tokyo | Columbia U. Press | 1989 |
Britton, Dorothy | Japan: A Living Portrait | Kodansha Int'l. | 1994 |
Dore, Ronald | Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village | U. of Calif. Press | 1978 |
Fields, George | Japanese Market Culture | Japan Times | 1988 |
Fukutake, Tadashi | Rural Society in Japan | U. of Tokyo Press | 1978 |
Hamabata, Matthews Masayoshi | Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family | Cornell U. Press | 1990 |
Ishida, Hiroshi | Educational Credentials, Class, and the Labor Market: A Comparative Study of Social Mobility in Japan and the United States | Harvard University | 1986 |
Lebra, Takie | Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility | U. of Calif. Press | 1993 |
Long, Susan Orpett | Family Change and the Life Course in Japan | Cornell East Asia Papers | 1987 |
Marshall, Robert C. | Collective Decision-Making in Rural Japan | Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies | 1984 |
Miyazawa, Setsuo | Policing in Japan: A Study on Making Crime | State U. of NY Press | 1992 |
Moeran, Brian, and Lise Skov, eds. | Women, Media, and Consumption in Japan | U. of Hawaii Press | 1994 |
Nakane, Chie | Japanese Society | U. of Calif. Press | 1970 |
Smith, Robert C. | Kurusu: The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village | Stanford U. Press | 1978 |
Steven, Rob | Class in Contemporary Japan | Cambridge U. Press | 1985 |
Tobin, Joseph J. | Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society | Yale U. Press | 1994 |
Trewatha, Glenn T. | Japan: A Geography | U. of Wisc. Press | 1965 |
Vogel, Ezra F. | Japan's New Middle Class: The Salaryman and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb | U. of Calif. Press | 1991 |
White, Merry | The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America | Free Press | 1992 |
Whiting, Robert | You Gotta Have Wa | Vintage Books | 1990 |
Politics | Economy | History | Literature | Culture | Society | Education | Social Security | Women | Religion | Popular Culture | Living, Working, and Traveling in Japan | Children's Books | Reference
Education
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Cummings, William K. | Education and Equality in Japan | Princeton U. Press | 1980 |
Cummings, William K. | Educational Policies in Crisis | Praeger | 1984 |
Duke, Benjamin | The Japanese School: Lesson for Industrial America | Praeger | 1987 |
Lewis, Catherine | Educating Hearts and Minds: Reflections on Japanese Preschool and Elementary Education | Cambridge U. Press | 1995 |
Shields, James, ed. | Japanese Schooling: Patterns of Socialization, Equality, and Political Control | Penn State | 1989 |
Stevenson, Harold W., and James W. Stigler | The Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn From Japanese and Chinese Education | Summit Books | 1992 |
Social Security
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Campbell, John Creighton | How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society | Princeton U. Press | 1992 |
Sonoda, Kyoichi | Health and Illness in Changing Japanese Society | U. of Tokyo Press | 1988 |
Women
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Bernstein, Gail Lee | Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community | Stanford U. Press | 1983 |
Condon, Jane | A Half Step Behind: Japanese Women Today | Tuttle | 1992 |
Imamura, Anne | Urban Japanese Housewives | U. of Hawaii Press | 1987 |
Iwao, Sumiko | The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality | Free Press | 1993 |
Pharr, Susan J. | Political Women in Japan | U. of Calif. Press | 1981 |
Schalow, Paul, and Janet Walker, eds. | The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing | Stanford U. Press | 1996 |
Tanaka, Yukiko, ed. | Unmapped Territories: New Women's Fiction From Japan | Seattle, WA: Women in Translation | 1991 |
Vernon, Victoria V. | Daughters of the Moon: Wish, Will and Social Constraint in Fiction by Modern Japanese Women | Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies | 1988 |
Religion
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Davis, Winston | Japanese Religion and Society | State U. of NY | 1992 |
Hardacre, Helen | Shinto and the State: 1968-1988 | Princeton U. Press | 1989 |
Hori, Ichiro | Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change | U. of Chicago | 1968 |
Reader, Ian | Religion in Contemporary Japan | U. of Hawaii Press | 1991 |
Sawada, Janine | Confucian Values and Popular Zen | U. of Hawaii Press | 1993 |
Suzuki, D.T. | Zen Buddhism | Doubleday | 1956 |
Popular Culture
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Eguchi, Miriam, and Atsushi Ueda | The Electric Geisha: Exploring Japan's Popular Culture | Kodansha | 1994 |
Levi, Antonia | Samurai From Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation | Open Court | 1996 |
Powers, Richard Gid, and Hidetoshi Kato | Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture | Greenwood Press | 1989 |
Sato, Ikuya | Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan | U. of Chicago Press | 1991 |
Schilling, Mark | The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture | Weatherhill | 1997 |
Schodt, Frederik L. | Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga | Stone Bridge Press | 1996 |
Living, Working, and Traveling in Japan
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Brannen, Christalyn | Going to Japan on Business: Protocol, Strategies, and Language for the Corporate Traveler | Stone Bridge Press | 1997 |
Gercik, Patricia | On Track With the Japanese | Kodansha | 1992 |
Scott, David | Essential Japan (Essential Travel Guide Series) | Little, Brown | 1992 |
Weston, Reiko | Cooking the Japanese Way | Lerner Publications | 1983 |
Wharton, John | Jobs in Japan: The Complete Guide to Living and Working in the Land of the Rising Opportunity | The Global Press | 1991 |
Children's Books
For Elementary School
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Kodansha | Kodansha Children's Classics Series | Kodansha | |
Kuklin, Susan | Kodomo: Children of Japan | G.P. Putnam | 1995 |
San Souci, Robert | The Samurai's Daughter | Dial Books | 1992 |
Say, Allen | The Bicycle Man | Houghton Mifflin | 1982 |
Say, Allen | Grandfather's Journey | Houghton Mifflin | 1993 |
For Middle School
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Kitano, Harry | The Japanese Americans | Chelsea House | 1988 |
Masamoto, Nasu | Children of the Paper Crane | M.E. Sharpe | 1991 |
Omotani, Les | Konnichi Wa Japan | National Textbook | 1994 |
For High School
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Kuroyanagi, Tetsuko | Totto-chan | Kodansha | 1982 |
Lifton, Betty Jean | A Place Called Hiroshima | Kodansha | 1985 |
Nakazawa, Keiji | Barefoot Gen, Vols. I-IV* | New Society Press | 1986-93 |
Paterson, Katherine | Of Nightingales That Weep | Harper Trophy | 1974 |
Reference
These volumes, in cartoon form, which tell the story of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 from the viewpoint of a survivor who was a teenager at the time and who lost most of his immediate family, are currently difficult to obtain.
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date |
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Bowring, Richard John, ed. | The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan | Cambridge U. Press | 1993 |
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia | Kodansha | 1993 | |
Itasaka, Gen, ed. | Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan | Kodansha | 1983 |
Makino, Yasuko, and Mihoko Miki | Japan and the Japanese: A Bibliographic Guide to Reference Sources | Greenwood Press | 1996 |
Politics | Economy | History | Literature | Culture | Society | Education | Social Security | Women | Religion | Popular Culture | Living, Working, and Traveling in Japan | Children's Books | Reference