What to Read After Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Readers who loved Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Hirohito and 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 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Embracing Defeat
The rising sun
Japan at War
Stilwell and the American experience in China 1911–1945
Samurai William
War without mercy
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Wandering through winter
Inventing Japan
The Years of Extermination, 1939–1945 (Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 2)
Korea's Place in the Sun
A modern history of Japan
The enigma of Japanese power
And their children after them
The Making of Modern Japan
The Rape of Nanking
Imperial reckoning
Hiroshima
Yakuza
Die Vergewaltigung von Nanking
The search for modern China
Downfall
Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword