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World War II: The Autobiography: 200 First-Hand Accounts from WWII (Brief Histories)

By Jon E. Lewis

The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: Britain's Forgotten Wartime Tragedy

By Banham, Tony

Empire of Signs

By Roloand Barthes, Translated By Richard Howard

National Parks of Japan

By Stock, D.

The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World

By Colley, Linda

Japan's Cultural Code Words: 233 Key Terms That Explain the Attitudes and Behavior of the Japanese

By Boye Lafayette De Mente

The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters

By Basil Hall Chamberlain

A History of Japanese Religion

By Kazuo Kasahara, Paul McCarthy, Gaynor Sekimori

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia

By Pankaj Mishra

Introducing Japan

By Donald Richie, Edwin O. Reischauer

Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-era Japan

By Dan Free

The Railway Man

By Eric Lomax

Japan: A Short History

By Mikiso Hane

Yayoi Kusama

By Laura Hoptman, Udo Kultermann, Yayoi Kusama

Growing Up In A War

By Magee, Bryan

Japan: Profile of a Nation

World in Focus: Japan

By Celia Tidmarsh

The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma 1942-1945

By JULIAN THOMPSON

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Zamperini, Louis, Rensin, David

The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War

By Malcolm Gladwell

Japanese Society

By Chie Nakane

The Day We Went to War

By Terry Charman

Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

By Damien Lewis

The Will to Survive: Three and a Half Years as a Prisoner of the Japanese

By Arthur Godman

The Origins of the Russo-Japanese War

By Ian Nish

Truman

By David McCullough

Japan: Photographs, 1855-1905

By Worswick, Clark

We're From Japan

By Vic Parker

Samurai William

By Giles Milton

A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, ZEN, and the Tea Ceremony

By Héctor García