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Anne Walthall: Japan. A Cultural, Social, and Political History, 2006. Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN: 0-618-13388-7.
Anne Walthall: The Human Tradition in Modern Japan, 2002. Scholarly Resources Inc. ISBN: 0-8420-2911-7.
Anbefalt litteratur:
Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan, Oxford University Press, 2003
Marius B. Jansen, The making of Modern Japan, Belknap Press, 2002
James L. McClain, Japan: A Modern History, W.W. Norton & Company, 2002
Peter Duus, Modern Japan, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997