History of Japan

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

By Herbert P Bix

The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan

By Ian Buruma

The Dragon and the Foreign Devils: China and the World, 1100 BC to the Present

By Harry G. Gelber

Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II

By Daniel James Brown

The Emperor's Codes : Bletchley Park And The Breaking Of Japan's Secret Ciphers :

The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness

By Eric Lomax

The Second World War

By David Horner, Robin Havers, Professor Alastair Finlan (Foersvarshoegskolan/Swedish Defence University), Mark J Grove, Philip D. Grove

Nagasaki, 1945

By Tatsuichiro Akizuki, K. Nagata

Healing in Hell: The Memoirs of a Far Eastern POW Medic

By Michael Adams

Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake, 1867-1923

By Edward G. Seidensticker