Bibliography of Secondary Sources about the Arts in Imperial Japan
Bibliography of Secondary Sources about the Arts in Imperial Japan
Abé Mark Nornes and Fukushima Yukio, eds. The Japan/America Film Wars: WWII Propaganda and its Cultural Context. Langhorne, PA: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994.
A collection of essays on World War II propaganda films.
Anderson, Joseph L. and Donald Richie. The Japanese Film: Art and Industry. 1959. Revised edition: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Cook, Haruko Taya and Theodore F. Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: The New Press, 1992
Davis, Darrell William. Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
Dower, John. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
Dym, Jeffrey A. Benshi, Japanese Silent Film Narrators, and Their Forgotten Narrative Art of Setsumei: A History of Japanese Silent Film Narration. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003
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Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Woodblock Prints from the Meiji Era. MFA Publications, 2001
Guttmann, Allen and Lee Thompson. Japanese Sports: A History. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001
High, Peter B. The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years’ War, 1931-1945. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
As described in the introduction, pp. xxvii: “The Imperial Screen can be read as a cultural history of wartime domestic Japan, as seen from the perspective of the film world.”
Ienaga Saburo. The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945.
Keene, Donald. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his World, 1852-1912. New York: Columbia University press, 2002.
See especially pages 391-395 for information related to the Rokumeikan.
LaFeber, Walter. The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations throughout History. New York: Norton, 1997.
Minear, Richard H. Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel. New York: The New Press, 1999.
Ortolani, Benito. The Japanese Theatre: From Shamanistic Ritual to Contemporary Pluralism. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990
Ozawa Kenji, editor. Shashin: Meiji no Senso (Pictures from the Meiji Wars). Omiya: Chikuma Shobo, 2001.
This is an excellent book that contains photographs from all of the wars Japan fought in during the Meiji period. Excellent image source book
Powell, Brian. Japan’s Modern Theatre: A Century of Change and Continuity. Japan Library, 2002.
Robertson, Jennifer. Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Roden, Donald. “Baseball and the Quest for National Dignity in Meiji Japan,” The American Historical Review, v. 85, no. 3 (June 1980): 511-534.
Seidensticker, Edward. Low City, High City. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
About life in Tokyo with an emphasis on the culture and theater.
Seidensticker, Edward. Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
About life in Tokyo with an emphasis on the culture and theater.
Senoh Kappa. A Boy Called H: A Childhood in Wartime Japan. Translated by John Bestor. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1999.
Whiting, Robert. You Gotta Have Wa: When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989.
