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Works

History

• Kojiki (712), translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain
• Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 (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; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years., 1895 by Joseph Heco
• A History of Japanese Literature, 1899 by William George Aston
• The Japanese Fairy Book, 1908 (original: 1903) by Iwaya Sazanami, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki
• Madame Butterfly; Purple eyes; A gentleman of Japan and a lady; Kito; Glory, 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
• Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, translated in 1920 by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi

Play

• Japanese Plays and Playfellows, 1901 by Osman Edwards

Music

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

Culture

• Category:Japanese culture articles in Popular Science Monthly
• 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 (shogi); the science and art of war or struggle philosophically treated. Chinese chess (chong-kie) and i-go, 1904 by Suzuki Choyo
• 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
• Japanese flower arrangement, 1913 by Mary Averill

Articles

• "Treaty between Japan and Corea" in Littell's Living Age, 139 (1890)
• Japanese Topsyturvydom, 1896 by Emily S. Patton (external scan)
• Japanese Fairy Tales, 1908 by Yei Theodora Ozaki (external scan)
• Myths and Legends of Japan, 1914 by Frederick Hadland Davis
• Daï Nippon, 1916 by Florence Earle Coates
• Japan: a lecture (1916) by Rabindranath Tagore
• Japanese Government And Politics, 1932 by Harold S. Quigley[1]
• Japanese Militarism, 1945 by John M. Maki (external scan)
• "The People's Rights in Japan" in Littell's Living Age, 151 (1949)
• Battle of people in the Ryukyu Islands against the U.S. occupation (1953)
• Report of Van Fleet mission to the Far East, 1954
• Japanese Military's "Comfort Women" System, by Larry Niksch

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 (August 10-14, 1945)
• Imperial Rescript on Surrender (15 Aug 1945) - Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender to his subjects.
• Strategic Order No. 584 (15 Aug 1945)
• Japanese Instrument of Surrender (2 Sept 1945)
• Enforced prostitution in Western Borneo during Japanese Occupation (5 July 1946) - Dutch report on events starting in 1943
• International Military Tribunal for the Far East Charter (Tokyo Charter, 19 Jan 1946)
• 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)
• Constitution of Japan (1946)
• Bank of Japan Act (1997)
• Copyright Act (1970)
• National Government Organization Act (2006)

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)
  • "Mutsuhito, Emperor of 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)