Pre-Modern Japan

Foreigners in Japan

Five Foreigners in Japan

New York, Fleming H. Revell company 1936

This book contains the travelogues of:

Fernando Mendez Pinto

Saint Francis Xavier

Will Adams, the Pilot

Ranald MacDonald of Oregon

Townsend Harris, the First American Envoy

The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier, 2nd Ed., Vol. II

Henry James Coleridge, ed. London, BUrns & Oates 1890. Google eBook available.

*Xavier is a Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He stayed in Japan from 1549 and 1551. He is credited for introducing Christianity to Japan.

They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640

Berkeley, University of California Press 1965

Japanese

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

Tokyo, Kenkyusha 1961

Diary of a Pilgrim to Ise

San Francisco, Chinese Materials Center 1977

*Four Japanese Travel Diaries of the Middle Ages [1185-1600] **Poetry/Literature

Ithaca, Cornell University 1981

The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewomen of Heian, Japan

Tokyo, Rutland, Vt., C. E. Tuttle Co. 1964

The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-century Japan

Ann Arbor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan 1997

Early Modern (1600s-1840s)

Foreigners in Japan

The Court Journey to the Shogun of Japan: From a Private Account by Jan Cock Blomhoff

Leiden, Hotei Publishing 2000

Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-merchant in the English factory in Japan 1615-1622, with correspondence

London, Hakluyt Society 1883

Jan Compagnie in Japan, 1600-1850; An essay on the cultural, artistic and scientific influence exercised by the Holanders in Japan from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries

New York, University Press 1968

They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640

Berkeley, University of California Press 1965

The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613

London, Printed for the Hakluyt Society 1900

Japanese

A Japanese Glimpse at the Outside World, 1839-1843: The Travels of Jirokichi in Hawaii, Siberia, and Alaska

Fairbanks, Alaska, Limestone Press 1991

WorldCat

Imperial Japan (1850s-1945)

Foreigners in Japan

Awakening Japan: The Diary of a German Doctor: Erwin Baelz

New York, The Viking Press 1932

Clara's Diary: An American Girl in Meiji Japan

New York, Kodansha International 1979

Five Foreigners in Japan

New York, Fleming H. Revell company 1936

This book contains the travelogues of:

Fernando Mendez Pinto

Saint Francis Xavier

Will Adams, the Pilot

Ranald MacDonald of Oregon

Townsend Harris, the First American Envoy

The Japan Expedition, 1852-1854: The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry

Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press 1968

Japan through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama, 1859-1866

Princeton, Princeton University Press 1992

Shanghai Harvest: A Diary of Three Years in the China War

London, Museum Press, 1945

(Available through WorldCat)

A Staff Officer's Scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese War

London, E. Arnold 1907

Colonial Korea

Korea's Fight for Freedom

Frederick Arthur Mackenzie

New York, Fleming H. Revell Company 1920

Manchuria

The Far Eastern Crisis

Henry Lewis

New York, London, Pub. for the Council on Foreign Relations by Harper & Brothers 1936

A Visit to Manchukuo

Henry George Wandesforde

Shanghai, The Mecury Press 1932

The World's Danger Zone

Sherwood Eddy (YMCA Secretary)

New York, Farrar & Rinehart 1932

Japanese

Hiroshima: Three Witnesses

Princeton, Princeton University Press 1990

Makiko's Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press 1995

Japanese Americans

Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945

Stanford, Stanford University Press 1997

Postwar (1945-present)

Foreigners in Japan

Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir

Bennett, John W.

http://library.osu.edu/projects/bennett-in-japan/about.html

Journeys to the Japanese, 1952-1979

Morton Gabriel White and Lucia White

Vancouver, University of British Colombia Press 1986

On Familiar Terms: A Journey Across Cultures

Donald Keene

New York: Kodansha International 1994