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Recommended Books in English RECOMMENDED BOOKS IN ENGLISH Baelz, Erwin, Awakening Japan: The Diary of a German Doctor (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974). Bix, Herbert P., Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (New York: Harper Collins, 2000). Brownlee, John S., Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600–1945 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997). Cortazzi, Hugh, ed., Mitford’s Japan: The Memoirs and Recollections, 1866–1906, of Algernon Bertram Mitford, the First Lord Redesdale (London: Athlone Press, 1985). Creemers, Wilhelmus, Shrine Shinto after World War II (Leiden: Brill, 1968). Crump, Thomas, The Death of an Emperor: Japan at the Crossroads (London: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1991). Doak, Kevin, A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007). Dower, John W., Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (New York: Norton, 1999). Earl, David M., Emperor and Nation in Japan (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964). Field, Norma, In the Realm of a Dying Emperor (New York: Pantheon Books, 1991). Fujitani, T., Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). Fukuzawa Yukichi, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (tr. D.A. Dilworth & G. Cameron Hurst. Tokyo: Sophia University, 1973). Futara, Yoshinori and Setsuzo Sawada, The Crown Prince’s European Tour (Osaka: The Osaka Mainichi Publishing Co., 1926). Gluck, Carol, Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985). Goto-Jones, Christopher, Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School and Co- Prosperity (London: Routledge, 2005). Griffi s, William E., The Mikado: Institution and Person (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1915). Hall, Robert K. & John O. Gauntlett, eds., Kokutai no Hongi: Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949). Hall, Robert K., Shushin: The Ethics of a Defeated Nation (New York: Columbia Univer- sity, 1949). Hata, Ikuhiko, Hirohito: The Shōwa Emperor in War and Peace (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007). Hardacre, Helen, Shintō and the State, 1868–1988 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989). Harris, Townsend, The Complete Journal of Townsend Harris (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1959). Hills, Ben, Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2006). Holtom, D.C., The Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies (Tokyo: Sophia University, 1972). ——, The National Faith of Japan (London: Kegan Paul, 1995). Hoyt, Edwin P., Hirohito: The Emperor and the Man (London: Praeger, 1992). Honjo Shigeru, Emperor Hirohito and his Chief Aide-de-Camp, The Honjo Diary, 1933–36 (tr. Mikiso Hane. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982). 340 recommended books in english Irokawa, Daikichi, The Culture of the Meiji Period (tr. and ed. Marius B. Jansen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985). ——, The Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan (tr. Mikiso Hane & John Urda. New York: Free Press, 1995). Itō Hirobumi, Commentaries on the Constitution of the Empire of Japan (tr. Baron Miyoji Ito. Tokyo: Chūō Daigaku, 1906). Izumoi Aki, Emperor Showa (Tokyo: Sankei Shimbun, 2007). Kanroji, Osanaga, Hirohito: An Intimate Portrait of the Japanese Emperor (Los Angeles: Gateway, 1975). Kawahara, Toshiaki, Hirohito and his Times (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1990). Keene, Donald, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002). Kido Koichi, Diary of Marquis Kido, 1931–1945 (Maryland: University Publications of America, 1984). Kido Takayoshi, The Diary of Kido Takayoshi (tr. Sidney Brown and Akiko Hirota. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1983), 3 vols. Koschmann, J. Victor, The Mito Ideology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). Koyama, Itoko, Nagako, Empress of Japan (New York: John Day, 1958). Large, Stephen S., Emperor Hirohito and Shōwa Japan (London: Routledge, 1992). ——, Emperors of the Rising Sun: Three Biographies (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1997). Lebra, Takie S., Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). Low, Morris, Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor (London: Routeledge, 2006). MacArthur, Douglas, Reminiscences (London: Heinemann, 1964). Martin, Peter, The Chrysanthemum Throne: A History of the Emperors of Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998). Maruyama, Masao, Thought and Behaviour in Modern Japanese Politics (ed. Ivan Morris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963). Meiji Japan Through Contemporary Sources (Tokyo: The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1970), 2 vols. Miller, Frank O., Minobe Tatsukichi: Interpreter of Constitutionalism in Japan (Berkeley: Uni- versity of California Press, 1965). Minear, Richard H., Japanese Tradition and Western Law: Emperor, State and Law in the Thought of Hozumi Yatsuka (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970). Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, Shōwa: An Inside History of Hirohito`s Japan (New York: Schocken Books, 1984). Nakai, Kate Wildman, Shogunal Politics, Arai Hakuseki and the Premises of Tokugawa Rule (Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1988). Nakamura, Masanori, The Japanese Monarchy: Ambassador Joseph Grew and the Making of the “Symbol Emperor System”, 1931–1991 (tr. Herbert P. Bix, Jonathan Baker-Bates and Derek Bowen. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1992). Napier, Susan J., Escape from Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo (Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard Uni- versity, 1991). Naruhito, Crown Prince, The Thames and I: A Memoir of Two Years at Oxford (tr. Sir Hugh Cortazzi. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2006). Nathan, John, Mishima: A Biography (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1975). Okubo, Genji, The Problem of the Emperor System in Postwar Japan (Tokyo: Japan Institute of Pacifi c Studies, 1948). Philomène, Marie and Masako Saito, eds., Tomoshibi—Light, Collected Poetry by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko (Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1991). Picken, Stuart, Essentials of Shinto (London: Greenwood Press, 1994). .
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