Memoirs and Oral Histories
Imperial Japan (1850s-1945)
Non-Japanese accounts
I saw Tokyo Burning: An Eyewitness Narrative from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
Robert Guillain
London, John Murray 1981
Descent into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941, A Navy Diver's Memoir
Edward Raymer
Novato, Presidio 1996
Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China
Urbana, University of Illinois Press 2010
Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir, 1930-1951
Sunny Che
Jefferson, NC, McFarland 2000
The Piracy of the Nanchang
Davidson-Houston, James Vivian
London, Cassell 1961
Representing the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia: Personal Testimonies and Public Images in Indonesia, Japan, and the Netherlands
Zwolle, Waanders Publishers; Amsterdam, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation 1999
Secret Agent of Japan: A Handbook to Japanese Imperialism
Amleto Vespa
Boston, Brown and Company 1938
Tokyo Central: A Memoir
Edward Seidensticker
Seattle, University of Washington Press 2002
Colonial Korea
My Forty Year Fight for Korea
Yŏng-sin IM
New York, A. A. Wyn 1951
Manchuria
Thirty years in Moukden, 1883-1913, being the experiences and recollections of Dugald Christie ...
London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1914
Japanese
Autobiography of a Geisha
Sayo Masuda
New York, Columbia University Press 2003
Hiroshima Archive
Description: "'Hiroshima Archive' is a pluralistic digital archive using the digital virtual globe 'Google Earth' to display on it in a multilayered way all the materials gained from such sources as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the Hiroshima Jogakuin Gaines Association, and the Hachioji Hibakusha (A-bomb Survivors) Association. Beyond time and space, the user can get a panoramic view over Hiroshima to browse survivors’ accounts, photos, maps, and other materials as of 1945, together with aerial photos, 3D topographical data, and building models as of 2010. The archive aims to promote multifaceted and comprehensive understanding of the reality of atomic bombing." (Description from http://hiroshima.mapping.jp/concept.html; A video demonstration can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-q00isamvs)
Japan at War: An Oral History
New York, New Press 1992
Manchurian Legacy: Memoirs of a Japanese Colonist
Kazuko Kuramoto
East Lansing, Michigan State University Press 1999
Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-portrait of Small-town Japan
Junichi Saga
Tokyo, New York, Kodansha 1987
Memories of Wind and Waves: A Self-portrait of Lakeside Japan
Junichi Saga
Tokyo, New York, Kodansha International 2002
Japanese Americans
And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps
John Tateishi
Seattle, University of Washington Press 1999
Citizen 13660 [Japanese Internment during WWII]
Okubo, Miné
Seattle, University of Washington Press 1983
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, digital archive video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II, Japanese-American internment stories
Desert Exile: The uprooting of a Japanese American Family
Yoshiko Uchida
Seattle, University of Washington Press 1984
From Our Side of the Fence: Growing up in America's Concentration Camps
Brian Komei Dempster, Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California
San Francisco, Kearny Street Workshop 2001
Go For Broke National Education Center: Preserving the Legacy of the Japanese American Veterans of World War II
http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/oral_histories_video.asp
Japanese American World War II Evacuation Oral History Project
Westport, Meckler 1991
Life Behind Barbed Wire the World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei
Soga, Keiho
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press 2008
Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps
Mary Matsuda Gruenewald
Troutdale, NewSage Press 2005
Manzanar Martyr: An Interview with Harry Y. Ueno
Fullerton, Oral History Program, California State University 1986
Nisei Memories: My Parents Talk About the War Years
Seattle, University of Washington Press 2006
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
Inada, Lawson Fusao
Berkeley, Heyday Books; San Francisco, California Historical Society 2000
The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey
New York, Palgrave Macmillan 2007
Postwar (1945-present)
Japanese
Autobiography of a Geisha
Sayo Masuda
New York, Columbia University Press 2003
Japanese War Brides in America, An Oral History
Santa Barbara, Praeger 2010
Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-portrait of Small-town Japan
Junichi Saga
Tokyo, New York, Kodansha 1987
Memories of Wind and Waves: A Self-portrait of Lakeside Japan
Junichi Saga
Tokyo, New York, Kodansha International 2002
Foreigners in Japan
Tokyo Central: A Memoir
Edward Seidensticker
Seattle, University of Washington Press 2002
Japanese Americans
Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese-American Redress
William Minoru Hohri
Pullman, Washington State University Press 1988