BORTON, HUGH. _Japan Since 1931._ New York. Institute of Pacific
Relations. 1940. Political and social developments within Japan during
the past decade. Rather technical.
COLEGROVE, KENNETH W. _Militarism in Japan._ New York. World Peace
Foundation. 1936. The army’s role in Japan, and a study of the
military-fascist movement. Fairly advanced but readable.
CROW, CARL. _He Opened the Door of Japan._ New York. Harper. 1939. The
life of Townsend Harris, first American Minister to Japan (1856-62).
Very readable.
ISHIMOTO, BARONESS. _Facing Two Ways._ New York. Farrar and Rinehart.
1935. A noted Japanese feminist leader tells the story of her life.
Popular and readable.
NORMAN, E. HERBERT. _Japan’s Emergence as a Modern State._ New York.
Institute of Pacific Relations. 1940. Discussion of Japan’s political
and economic reforms during the Meiji era. Technical.
OMURA, BUNJI. _The Last Genro._ Philadelphia. Lippincott. 1938. The
story of Prince Saionji’s life, covering the whole period of Japan’s
modern development. Entertaining narrative style.
REISCHAUER, ROBERT K. _Japan: Government--Politics._ New York. Nelson.
1939. Sketches the growth of Japanese government from earliest times.
Fairly advanced but readable.
RUSSEL, OLAND D. _The House of Mitsui._ Boston. Little Brown. 1939.
Three centuries of the Mitsui family’s history, beginning in Tokugawa
times. Readable.
SANSOM, G. B. _Japan: A Short Cultural History._ New York. Century.
1931. The best recent history of Japan, covering events up to 1868.
Technical.
YOUNG, A. MORGAN. _Imperial Japan, 1926-1938._ New York. Morrow. 1939.
Also _Japan in Recent Times, 1912-1926_. New York. Morrow. 1931.
Narrative accounts of more recent phases of Japanese history. Readable.
SUGGESTED PERIODICALS: _Amerasia_; _Asia_; _Far Eastern Survey_; and
_Pacific Affairs_.
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