Sources of Japanese Tradition (2nd ed.) by 
Japan: A Documentary History by 
Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns by 
Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs by 
Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection by 
The Kamakura Bakufu by 
Lust, Commerce, and Corruption by Labor Contracts and Labor Relations in Early Modern Central Japan (2004). eBook
By: Nagata, Marie Louis. Documents regarding Industrial relations and family-owned business enterprises in Tokugawa era (1600–1868).
They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports, 1543–1640
Michael Cooper (ed.)
Published: 1965
An Account of Japan 1609 by 
Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed by The Japanese Expedition (1852–1854): The Personal Journals of Commodore Mathew C. Perry (Smithsonian, 1968)
Japan Rising: The Iwakura embassy to the USA and Europe 1871-1873 by 
Imperial Japan, 1800-1945 (2 Volumes of Sources) by 
Modern Japan: A History in Documents by 
Japanese Propaganda: Series 1 Selected Readings from Books (1871–1943) by 
Japanese Propaganda: Series 2 Pamphlets (1891–1939) by 
Wars and Rumours of War, 1918-1945 by Kokutai no Nihongi 国体の本義 (Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan)
Download a copy here.
Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences
So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers by 
Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation by 
Into the Rising Sun: In their own words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat by 
Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad as Revealed through Their Diaries
Donald Keene
Published: 1995
Visualizing Cultures: Image Driven Scholarship This site was launched at MIT in 2002 to use new technology and rare visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be). Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world and early-modern China.
Asia and the West: 19th Century Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange. This database contains 19th Century British Foreign Office and United States consular and diplomatic records from China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. These records reflect day-to-day encounters with the indigenous populations, the expansion of trade, extraterritorial rights, treaty provisions. It also contains a substantial selection of missionary correspondence and journals. Maintained by Gale-Cengage.
Travel Writing, Spectacle, and World History brings together hundreds of accounts produced by women documenting their travels across the globe. Several accounts cover travel in Asia. The materials contained in this database range from the early 19th century to the late 20th century and include unique manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, guidebooks, postcards, sketches and photographs. From Adam Mathews Digital
Empire Online World Empires from 1492-1969. Includes a wealth of primary sources including manuscripts, rare printed materials, letter books, missionary papers, slave papers, travel writing, periodicals, diaries, photographs and more. Supplementing the primary sources are secondary resources such as essays, interactive maps, chronology and an image gallery. Materials in the collections spans five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires, gathered from a wide range of reputable institutions, with a core from the British Library. Maintained by Adam Matthew Digital.
The American Presidency Project is maintained by political science professors John Woolley and Gerhard Peters and hosted at UC Santa Barbara. This database provides access to numerous documents related to US-Japan relations. You can search for key terms and limit your search to a particular president's era of administration.
Digital version of US Congressional Serial Set contains all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from 1817 to the present. These documents constitute a rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history. A print version of the Serial Set would consist of over 12 million pages.
The Cambridge History of Japan
(eBook Collection)
Volume 5: The Nineteenth Century
Volume 6: The Twentieth Century
We also have physical copies of these books in the library located on Level 1 at call number: DS 835 .C36 1988
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (4th ed) by 
A Concise History of Japan by 
To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History by 
The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society by 
The World of the Shining Prince by 
Japan: A Modern History (17th c. to Present) by 
The Making of Modern Japan (eBook) by 
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912 by 
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by 
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by Marius B. Jansen, Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration (Princeton Univ. Press, 1961).
Conrad B. Totman, The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu 1862–1868 (University of Hawaii Press, 1980).
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War by Topaz Museum Website (Delta, Utah)
Collected Literary Magazines of Americans of Japanese Descent
This twenty-three volume set of book reproduces copies of literary magazines created by Japanese incarcerated in relocation centers in various parts of the United States: New York, California, Arizona (Poston & Gila River), and Wyoming (Heart Mountain). it is shelved in the Japanese Section of the Asian Collection on Level 4 of the Harold B. Lee Library. Call Number: PL 889 .U52 N9
National Archives: Japanese American Incarceration During WWII
Includes access to several relevant primary source documents documents and other resources.
Densho 伝承: This English language website documents the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II. It preserves firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources.
