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Bibliography

T he editorial policy of the Tuttle Brief History series avoids references and citations, although I have been unable to resist naming particular books and authors in my text where I think it necessarythe eerily prophetic Song of the Black Ships, for example, is mentioned in dozens of books about Commodore Perry, but hardly any of them bother to cite its origins in Nitobes The Intercourse Between the United States of North America and Japan .

This bibliography is also necessarily brief, but includes every book I have actually quoted from or leaned on to any great degree in my main text.

Adolphson, Mikael. The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.

Alcock, John Rutherford. The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years Residence in Japan . Two volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863.

Aston, William George (trans). Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 . Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1972.

Batten, Bruce. Climate Change in Japanese History and Prehistory: A Comparative Overview . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Occasional Papers in Japanese Studies, 2009.

Bennett, Terry. Japan and the Illustrated London NewsComplete Record of Reported Events 18531899 . Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2006.

Best, Jonathan. A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche together with an Annotated Translation of the Paekche Annals of the Samguk Sagi . Cambridge, MA; Harvard University Press, 2006.

Birmingham, Lucy and David McNeill. Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japans Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster . New York: St Martins Press, 2012.

Booth, Alan. The Roads to Sata: A 2,000-Mile Walk Through Japan . New York: K dansha America, 1997.

Boxer, Charles. The Christian Century in Japan 15491650 . Manchester: Carcanet, 1951.

Brienza, Casey. Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Chen Cheng et al. (trans.) The Classic of Mountains and Seas . Changsha: Hunan Peoples Publishing House, 2010.

Conlan, Thomas. In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takesaki Suenagas Scrolls of the Mongol Invasion of Japan . Ithaca: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2001.

Cooper, Michael (ed.). They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 15431640 . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1965.

Deal, William. Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan . New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Delgado, James. Khubilai Khans Lost Fleet: Historys Greatest Naval Disaster . London: Bodley Head, 2009.

Duus, Peter. The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration into Korea 18951910 . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Farris, William Wayne. Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japans Military 5001300 . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Feifer, George. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 . New York: Smithsonian Books, 2006.

Friday, Karl. Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850 . Boulder: Westview Press, 2012.

Habu Junko. Ancient Jomon of Japan . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Heldt, Gustav (trans). The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters . New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

Hendy, Richard. Yubari, Japan: a city learns how to die, The Guardian , August 15, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/aug/15/yubari-japan-city-learns-die-lost-population-detroit

Hesselink, Reinier. The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 15601640 . Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2016.

Inose Naoki with Hiroaki Sato. Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima . Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2012.

Johnson, Robert Erwin. Far China Station: The U.S. Navy in Asian Waters 18001898 . Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1979.

Keene, Donald. Major Plays of Chikamatsu . New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.

_____. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World 18521912 . New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Kerr, Alex. Dogs & Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2002.

Kidder, J. Edward. Himiko and Japans Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai: Archaeology, History and Mythology . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.

Landor, Arnold Henry Savage. Alone with the Hairy Ainu: Or 3,800 Miles on a Pack Saddle in Yezo and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands . London: John Murray, 1893.

Leggett, Trevor. Shgi: Japans Game of Strategy . Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1966.

Leiter, Samuel. New Kabuki Encyclopedia: A Revised Adaptation of Kabuki Jiten . Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Maki, John. A Yankee in Hokkaid: The Life of William Smith Clark . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2002.

McNicol, Tony. Japanese Royal Tomb Opened to Scholars for the First Time, National Geographic , April 28, 2008. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080428-ancient-tomb.html

Minohara, Tosh et al. (eds) The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s . Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Morris, Ivan. The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan . Harmondsworth: Peregrine, 1979.

Morton, W. Scott and J. Kenneth Olenik. Japan: Its History and Culture . Fourth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

Murphy, R. Taggart. Japan and the Shackles of the Past . New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Nathan, John. Mishima: A Biography . Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1974.

Nichiren. Writings of Nichiren Shnin . Translated by Ky tsu Hori. Honolulu: Nichiren Sh Overseas Propagation Promotion Association, 2002.

Nitobe Inaz . The Intercourse Between the United States of North America and JapanAn Historical Sketch . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1891.

Oka Yoshitake. Prince Konoe Fumimaro: A Political Biography . Lanham: Madison Books, 1992.

Ooms, Herman. Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient JapanThe Tenmu Dynasty 650800 . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009.

Pearson, Richard. Ancient Ryky: An Archaeological Study of Island Communities . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013.

[Peoples Court Daily]. Trials of Justice: Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese Peoples War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression . Beijing: Peoples Court Press, 2016.

Piggott, Joan. The Emergence of Japanese Kingship . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Polo, Marco. The Travels . Trans. by Ronald Latham. London: Penguin, 1958.

Rafferty, Kevin. Why Abes womenomics program isnt working, Japan Times , December 31, 2015. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/12/31/commentary/japan-commentary/abeswomenomics-program-isnt-working/#.VwY_8UfD8bx