What to Read After The Making of Modern Japan
Readers who loved The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Making of Modern Japan is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Making of Modern Japan
Embracing Defeat
The Imjin War
Inventing Japan
Japanese Culture
The enigma of Japanese power
Shutting out the sun
Dogs and Demons
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
The Comfort Women
Japan
The Cash Nexus
Shinsengumi
Sources of Japanese tradition
The Japanese mind
Japan, a Modern History
In the Realm of a Dying Emperor
The Essence of Shinto
The last train from Hiroshima
The Other Path
History of Japan
Understanding Japanese society
Korea, old and new
The Nobility of Failure
Kaigun