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
Japan
Inventing Japan
The world of the shining prince
Shutting out the sun
Dogs and Demons
The comfort women
The cash nexus
A modern history of Japan
Shinsengumi
The enigma of Japanese power
Sources of Japanese tradition
The Imjin War
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
The Essence of Shinto
Japan, a modern history
Understanding Japanese society
The last train from Hiroshima
History of Japan
The Other Path
The nobility of failure
In the realm of a dying emperor
Korea, old and new
The Japanese mind