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Japanese History Books
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,076 ratings — published 1999
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,004 ratings — published 2002
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,812 ratings — published 1997
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,333 ratings — published 2000
The Making of Modern Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 606 ratings — published 2000
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,004 ratings — published 1970
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,691 ratings — published 1946
A Brief History of the Samurai (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,226 ratings — published 2010
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 402 ratings — published 2002
Sengoku Jidai. Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu: Three Unifiers of Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 367 ratings — published
A History of Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,597 ratings — published 1972
A History of Japan to 1334 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 281 ratings — published 1958
A History of Japan, 1615-1867 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 146 ratings — published 1963
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,092,625 ratings — published 1997
A History of Japan, 1334-1615 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 192 ratings — published 1961
The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 1: Ancient Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 91 ratings — published 1993
The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 655 ratings — published 2003
Japan's Modern Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 99 ratings — published 1985
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,059 ratings — published 2003
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,134 ratings — published 2002
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,845 ratings — published 2017
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,333 ratings — published 2020
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 209,066 ratings — published 1975
War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,880 ratings — published 1986
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 941 ratings — published 1964
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 858 ratings — published 1986
Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 649 ratings — published 2005
The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,502 ratings — published 1000
Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,816 ratings — published 2013
Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan (Warfare and History)
by (shelved 10 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 80 ratings — published 2003
The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 2: Heian Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 48 ratings — published 1999
Peasants, Rebels and Outcastes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 130 ratings — published 1982
The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 5: the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 43 ratings — published 1989
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,065 ratings — published 1997
The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3: Medieval Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 39 ratings — published 1990
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,243 ratings — published 1645
Early Modern Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 50 ratings — published 1993
Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 182 ratings — published 1995
Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 10,013 ratings — published 1899
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,151 ratings — published 1999
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (Volume 8) (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 139 ratings — published 1997
Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered (Japonica Neerlandica)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 36 ratings — published 2000
Japan at War: An Oral History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,003 ratings — published 1992
The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,112 ratings — published 1010
Hideyoshi (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 119 ratings — published 1982
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,566 ratings — published 2023
Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,141 ratings — published 2020
Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (Volume 12)
by (shelved 7 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 38 ratings — published 2006
Japan and the Shackles of the Past (What Everyone Needs to Know (Hardcover))
by (shelved 7 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 312 ratings — published 2014
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as japanese-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,917 ratings — published 2017
“The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for reforms, their memoranda carried little weight with an idle aristocracy.”
― Japanese Art
― Japanese Art
“What if the bird will not sing?
Nobunaga answers, "Kill it!"
Hideyoshi answers, "Make it want to sing."
Ieyasu answers, "Wait."
This book, Taiko, is the story of the man who made the bird want to sing.”
― Taiko
Nobunaga answers, "Kill it!"
Hideyoshi answers, "Make it want to sing."
Ieyasu answers, "Wait."
This book, Taiko, is the story of the man who made the bird want to sing.”
― Taiko
