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#1

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

1997 • 213 Readers • 290 pages • 4.2

#2

Judgment at Tokyo

2023 • 11 Readers • 912 pages

#3

Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld

ByDavid E. Kaplan,Alec Dubro

1986 • 7 Readers • 422 pages • 4

#4

Confessions of a Yakuza

ByJunichi Saga,John Bester(Translator)

1989 • 16 Readers • 264 pages • 4.1

#5

In Praise of Shadows

ByJun'ichirō Tanizaki,Edward G. Seidensticker(Translator),+1 more

1933 • 126 Readers • 88 pages • 3.5

#6

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A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine

ByJohn K. Nelson

1996 • 1 Reader • 225 pages

#7

The Essence of Shinto: Japan's Spiritual Heart

ByMotohisa Yamakage

2006 • 4 Readers • 229 pages • 3

#8

The Invention of Religion in Japan

ByJason Ānanda Josephson Storm

2012 • 2 Readers

#9

A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600–1901

ByHiroshi Watanabe,David Noble(Translator)

2010 • 1 Reader • 543 pages

#10

As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States

ByMasao Miyoshi

1979 • 3 Readers • 248 pages

#11

Japan in the World

ByMasao Miyoshi(editor),Harry Harootunian(Editor)

1993 • 1 Reader • 380 pages

#12

Heritage of Endurance: Family Patterns and Delinquency Formation in Urban Japan

ByHiroshi Wagatsuma,George A. Devos

1984 • 1 Reader • 540 pages

#13

To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima

ByCharles Pellegrino

2010 • 7 Readers • 432 pages • 4

#14

Embracing Defeat

ByJohn W. Dower

1999 • 20 Readers • 676 pages • 4

#15

Listen to the voices from the sea

ByJoseph L. Quinn,Midori Yamanouchi

2000 • 1 Reader • 344 pages

#16

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Requiem for Battleship Yamato

ByMitsuru Yoshida,Richard H. Minear(Translator)

1999 • 2 Readers • 4

#17

The chrysanthemum and the sword

ByRuth Benedict

1946 • 15 Readers • 320 pages • 2

#18

#9 of 1 in From Retinue to Regiment 1453-1618

The Ōnin War 1467-77

ByStephen Turnbull

2021 • 1 Reader • 144 pages

#19

ByH. Paul Varley

1965 • 1 Reader • 238 pages

#20

#1 of 3 in The Pacific War Trilogy

Pacific Crucible War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1942

2011 • 13 Readers • 656 pages • 4.6

#21

#2 of 3 in The Pacific War Trilogy

The Conquering Tide

2015 • 12 Readers • 688 pages • 4.7

#22

#3 of 3 in The Pacific War Trilogy

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

2020 • 16 Readers • 926 pages • 4.1

#23

ByDonald Richie

1971 • 6 Readers • 260 pages • 4

#24

The Turtle House

ByAmanda Churchill

2024 • 8 Readers • 5