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Works

History

• Kojiki (712), numerous translations
• Nihongi (720), translated by William George Aston

Literature

• Aino Folk-Tales (1888), by Basil Hall Chamberlain
• The Diary of a Japanese Convert (1895), by Uchimura Kanzo
• The Narrative of a Japanese (1895), by Joseph Heco
• A History of Japanese Literature (1899), by William George Aston
• The Japanese Fairy Book (1908), by Iwaya Sazanami, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki
• Five Short Stories (1904) by John Luther Long
• Botchan (1906), by Natsume Sōseki, translated by Yasotaro Morri
• The Dragon Painter (1906), by Mary McNeil Fenollosa
• The Praises of Amida (1907), by Kanai Tada, translated by Arthur Lloyd
• The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914), by Yone Noguchi
• Tales from Old Japanese Dramas (1915), by Asataro Miyamori (transcription project)
• Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (1920), translated by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi

Art

• Japanese Wood Engravings (1895), by William Edwin Anderson
• Japanese Flower Arrangement (1913), by Mary Averill

Play

• Japanese Plays and Playfellows (1901), by Osman Edwards

Music

• Art Songs of Japan (1917), by Gertrude Ross (transcription project)

Culture

• Japanese fragments (1860), as serialized in Once a Week
• Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880), by Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop
• Jinrikisha Days in Japan (1891), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
• Occult Japan (1894), by Percival Lowell
• Japanese Physical Training (1903), by H. Irving Hancock
• Japanese Chess (Shō-ngi): The Science and Art of War or Struggle (1905), by Suzuki Choyo (external scan)
• Things Japanese (1905), by Basil Hall Chamberlain
• The Book of Tea (1906), by Okakura Kakuzō
• The Game of Go (1908), by Arthur Smith
• Child-life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories (1909), by Matilda Chaplin Ayrton, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain
• Myths and Legends of Japan (1912), by Frederick Hadland Davis (external scan)

Articles

• "Treaty between Japan and Corea" in Littell's Living Age, 139 (1890) (1878)
• "The People's Rights in Japan" in Littell's Living Age, 151 (1949) (1881)
• Japanese Topsyturvydom (1896), by Emily S. Patton (external scan)
• Däi Nippon (1905), by Florence Earle Coates
• Japan: a lecture (1916), by Rabindranath Tagore

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "Health-Matters in Japan" by Edward Sylvester Morse in Popular Science Monthly, 12 (January 1878)
• "Traces of an Early Race in Japan" by Edward Sylvester Morse in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (January 1879)
• "Dolmens in Japan" by Edward Sylvester Morse in Popular Science Monthly, 16 (March 1880)
• "A Japanese Typhoon" by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (January 1881)
• "A Study of the Ainu of Yezo" by J. K. Goodrich in Popular Science Monthly, 33 (June 1888)
• "Ainu Houses and their Furnishing" by J. K. Goodrich in Popular Science Monthly, 33 (August 1888)
• "Ainu Family-Life and Religion" by J. K. Goodrich in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (November 1888)
• "Moral Life of the Japanese" by W. Delano Eastlake in Popular Science Monthly, 43 (July 1893)
• "Shinto, The Old Religion of Japan" by Nobuta Kishimoto in Popular Science Monthly, 46 (December 1894)
• "The Fishes of Japan" by David Starr Jordan in Popular Science Monthly, 60 (November 1901)
• "A Visit to the Japanese Zoological Station at Misaki" by Bashford Dean in Popular Science Monthly, 65 (July 1904)
• "Chinese and Japanese Immigration" by Allan Joseph McLaughlin in Popular Science Monthly, 66 (December 1904)
• "Recent Advances in Meteorology and Meteorological Service in Japan" by Satoru Tetsu Tamura in Popular Science Monthly, 68 (February 1906)
• "The Great Japanese Volcano Aso" by Robert Van Vleck Anderson in Popular Science Monthly, 71 (July 1907)
• "Account of a Trip in Southernmost Japan, with Early Records of its Discovery" by Robert Van Vleck Anderson in Popular Science Monthly, 74 (February 1909)
• "Relations of Japan and the United States" by David Starr Jordan in Popular Science Monthly, 80 (February 1912)
• "The Imperial Universities of Japan" by Harry Foster Bain in Popular Science Monthly, 80 (March 1912)

Legislative and military texts

• Treaty of Kanagawa (1854)
• Harris Treaty (1858)
• Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895)
• Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
• Remarks by Admiral Togo at dispersal ceremony for the combined fleet (1905)
• Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty (1910)
• Twenty-One Demands (1915)
• Japan's Surrender Communiqués (1945)
• Imperial Rescript on Surrender (1945)
• Japanese Instrument of Surrender (1945)
• Governmental and Administrative Separation of Certain Outlying Areas from Japan (20 Jan 1946)
• Rusk documents (10 Aug 1951)
• Treaty of San Francisco (1952)
• Treaty of Peace between Japan and the Republic of China (1952)
• Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea (1965)
• Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China (1972)

Law of Japan

• Seventeen-article constitution (604)
• Taika Reform Edict (646)
• Constitution of the Empire of Japan (1890)
• Bank of Japan Act (1942)
• Constitution of Japan (1946)
• National Government Organization Act (1948)
• Copyright Act (1970)

Encyclopedias

• "Japan," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Japan," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Japan," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Japan," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Japan," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1982)
• "Japan," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1990)
• "Japan," in CIA World Fact Book, (ed.) by CIA (2004)

Government of Japan

• Background and Position of the Government of Japan Concerning the Issue of Former Civilian Workers from the Korean Peninsula (2019) by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
• Government of Japan Standard Terms of Use (Version 2.0) (2015)