HIST 424: Twentieth-Century Japan
Department of History
University of Hawai‘i at M ā noa
Spring 2012
Course Reader: Table of Contents
• “Constitution of the Empire of Japan.” Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan , vol.2.
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1983, pp.7-9
• It ō Hirobumi. “Some Reminiscences of the Grant of the New Constitution.” In Fifty
Years of New Japan (Kaikoku goj ū nen shi ). Second Edition. Vol. 1. comp. Count
Shigenobu Okuma. ed. Marcus B. Huish. New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1970.
Originally published in 1909.
• Minobe Tatsukichi. “Defense of the ‘Organ’ Theory.” In Sources of Japanese
Tradition . First Edition. Vol. 2. Columbia University Press, 1954.
• “Treaty of Portsmouth.” World War I Document Archive. http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/iindex.php/Treaty_of_Portsmouth. Accessed October 6, 2011.
• Wells, David N. ed. and trans. Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913: An Anthology of
Travel Writing . London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. pp. 187-203.
• Onishi, Norimitsu. “Japan’s Outcasts Still Wait for Acceptance.” The New York
Times . January 15, 2009.Accessed November 19, 2011.
• The Civil Code of Japan . trans. W. J. Sebald. Kobe, Japan: L. L. Thompson & Co.,
1934. pp. 163-188, 26-231.
• Bryant. “For the Sake of the Country, for the Sake of the Family: The Oppressive
Impact of Family Registration on Women and Minorities in Japan.” UCLA Law
Review . Vol. 39: 109 (1991): 109-168.
• Yamazaki, Tomoko. “Osaki’s Story: The Life of an Overseas Prostitute.” In
Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese
Women . written by Tomoko Yamazaki. tran. Karen Colligan-Taylor. M.E. Sharpe,
1999. pp. 45-107.
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• Bayliss, Jeffrey P. "Minority Success, Assimilation, and Identity in Prewar Japan:
Pak Chung ǔ m and the Korean Middle Class," The Journal of Japanese Studies . Vol.
34, No. 1 (Winter 2008): 33-68.
• Shigemitsu, Mamoru. Japan and Her Destiny: My Struggle for Peace > ed. Major-
General F.S.G. Piggott, trans. Oswald White. Hutchinson of London, 1958. pp. 11-
12, 25-67, 93-108.
• Lebra, Joyce C., ed. Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in World War
II . Oxford University Pres, 1975. pp. 73-81.
• Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi. From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu
Yi . trans. W.J.F. Jenner. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1989. Originally published in 1965.
• Sens ō : The Japanese Remember the Pacific War—Letters to the EditorAsahi
Shimbun . ed. Frank Gibney, trans. Beth Cary. M.E. Sharpe, 1995. pp .23-57.
• Cook, Haruko Taya, and Theodore Cook, ed. Japan at War: An Oral History . The
New Press, 1992. pp. 267-292, 354-372.
• Field-Marshal Viscount Slim. Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and
India, 1942-1945 . Cooper Square Press, 2000. Originally published in 1956. pp 484-
485, 513-520.
• Gayn, Mark. Japan Diary . New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1948. pp. ixx, 1-25, 40-60, 80-95, 103-115.
• “The Constitution of Japan, 1946.” Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan , vol.2. Tokyo:
Kodansha International, 1983, pp.9-13.
• Maruyama Masao, "Theory and Psychology of Ultranationalism," in Maruyama
Masao. Thought and Behaviour in Modern Japanese Politics . ed. Ivan Morris.
London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1963. pp. 1-24.
• Kuramoto, Kazuko. Manchurian Legacy . Michigan State University Press, 1999. pp.
31-74.
• Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. “Japan’s hidden Role in the ‘Return’ of Zainichi Koreans to
North Korea.” History News Network at George Mason University. http://hnn.us/articles/10199.html. Accessed July 27, 2009. Originally published in
Japan Focus.
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• Yoshida, Shigeru. The Yoshida Memoirs: The Story of Japan in Crisis . trans.
Kenichi Yoshida. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1961. pp. 211-42, 254-68.
• “Security Treaty between Japan and the United States of America.” “The World and
Japan” Database Project. http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~worldjpn/front-ENG.shtml.
• “Treaty of Mutual Cooperation Security between Japan and the United States of
America.” “The World and Japan” Database Project. http://www.ioc.utokyo.ac.jp/~worldjpn/front-ENG.shtml.
• Allison, Anne. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a
Tokyo Hostess Club . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. pp.
91-113.
• Kumazawa, Makoto. Portraits of the Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements,
Workers, and Managers . Westview Press, 1996. pp. 159-200.
• Ishihara, Shintar ō . The Japan That Can Say No: Why Japan Will Be First Among
Equals . trans. Frank Baldwin. Forward by Ezra Vogel. Simon & Schuster, c1989.
• “Statement by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono on the Result of the Study on the Issue of ‘Comfort Women’” (August 4, 1993).
Digital Museum: The Comfort
Women Issue and the Asian Women’s Fund—Documents of the Japanese
Government and the AWF. http://www.awf.or.jp/e6/statement.html. Accessed on
May 19, 2009.
• “Statement by Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama on the ‘Peace, Friendship, and
Exchange Initiative’” (August 31, 1994). Digital Museum: The Comfort Women
Issue and the Asian Women’s Fund—Documents of the Japanese Government and the AWF. http://www.awf.or.jp/e6/statement.html. Accessed on May 19, 2009.
• “Statement by Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama: ‘On the occasion of the 50 th anniversary of the war’s end’ (15 August 1995).” Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Japan web site. Accessed 2010.
• Levin, Mark A. “ Nishimatsu Construction Co. v. Song Jixiao et al.; K ō Hanako et al. v. Japan.
” American Journal of International Law . vol. 102 (January 2008): 148-
154.
• Choe Sang-Hung. “Statue Deepens Dispute Over Wartime Sexual Slavery.” The
New York Times , December 16, 2011.
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• Tsuda, Takeyuki. “The Permanence of ‘Temporary’ Migration: The ‘Structural
Embeddedness’ of Japanese-Brazilian immigrant Workers in Japan.” The Journal of
Asian Studies , 58: 3 (August 1999): 687-722.
• Murakami Haruki, “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo.” In After the Quake: Stories . trans.
Jay Rubin. New York: Vintage International, 2002. pp. 91-114.
• Anderson, Sam. “The Underground Man.” The New York Times Magazine . October
23, 2011: 37-41, 63.
• “The Murakami Chronicle (Letters to the Editor)” The New York Times Magazine .
November 6, 2011: 6.
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