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• Japan -- Civilization -- 1868-1912
• Japan -- Fiction

• The Kingdom of Slender Swords (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1910), by Hallie Erminie Rives, illust. by A. B. Wenzell
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Botchan (Master Darling) (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), by Natsume Sōseki, trans. by Yasotaro Mori, contrib. by J. R. Kennedy (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Daughters of Nijo: A Romance of Japan (New York and London: Macmillan, 1904), by Onoto Watanna, illust. by Kiyokichi Sano (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Heart of Hyacinth (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1903), by Onoto Watanna, illust. by Kiyokichi Sano (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Japanese Blossom (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Onoto Watanna, illust. by L. W. Ziegler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Japanese Nightingale (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1903), by Onoto Watanna, illust. by Genjiro Yeto (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kimono (1922), by John Paris (Gutenberg text)
• Kokoro, by Sōseki Natsume, trans. by Edwin McClellan (illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org)
• Miss Numè of Japan: A Japanese-American Romance (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally and Co., c1899), by Onoto Watanna (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stopover: Tokyo (c1957), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Botchan (Master Darling), by Natsume Sōseki, trans. by Yasotaro Mori, contrib. by J. R. Kennedy (Gutenberg text)
• You Only Live Twice (c1964), by Ian Fleming (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Last Laugh, Mr. Moto (c1941), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Mr. Moto is So Sorry (c1938), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Think Fast, Mr. Moto (c1937), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Thank You, Mr. Moto (c1936), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• No Hero (c1935), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Miss Numè of Japan: A Japanese-American Romance (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally and Co., c1899), by Onoto Watanna (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Heart of Hyacinth (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1903), by Onoto Watanna, illust. by Kiyokichi Sano (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Madame Butterfly (Japanese edition; New York: The Century Co., 1903), by John Luther Long, illust. by Yarnall Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Australian Crisis (London: W. Scott Pub. Co., 1909), by C. H. Kirmess
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• You Only Live Twice (c1964), by Ian Fleming (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Madame Butterfly (Japanese edition; New York: The Century Co., 1903), by John Luther Long, illust. by Yarnall Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madame Chrysantheme, by Pierre Loti, contrib. by Albert Sorel (Gutenberg text)

• Stopover: Tokyo (c1957), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Last Laugh, Mr. Moto (c1941), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Mr. Moto is So Sorry (c1938), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Think Fast, Mr. Moto (c1937), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Thank You, Mr. Moto (c1936), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• No Hero (c1935), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Australian Crisis (London: W. Scott Pub. Co., 1909), by C. H. Kirmess
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Shike (1981), by Robert Shea (HTML at bobshea.net)

• The Curse of Koshiu: A Chronicle of Old Japan (London: Ward and Downey, 1888), by Lewis Wingfield
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• Little Sister Snow, by Frances Little, illust. by Genjiro Kataoka (Gutenberg text)
• The Lady of the Decoration, by Frances Little (Gutenberg text)

• Kottō: Being Japanese Curios, With Sundry Cobwebs (New York and London: Macmillan, 1910), by Lafcadio Hearn, illust. by Genjiro Yeto
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Cannery Boat, by Takiji Kobayashi, and Other Japanese Short Stories (New York: International Publishers, c1933), contrib. by Takiji Kobayashi, Seikichi Fujimori, Takiji Kobayashi, Denji Kuroshima, Sanji Kishi, Teppei Kataoka, Naoshi Tokunaga, and Fusao Hayashi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)

• Genji Monogatari (From "Japanese Literature"; New York: Colonial Press, 1900), by Lady Shikibu Murasaki, trans. by Suematsu Kencho (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Tale of Genji, by Lady Shikibu Murasaki, trans. by Edward Seidensticker (text at Oxford Text Archive)

• The Lady of the Decoration, by Frances Little (Gutenberg text)

• Botchan (Master Darling) (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), by Natsume Sōseki, trans. by Yasotaro Mori, contrib. by J. R. Kennedy (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Botchan (Master Darling), by Natsume Sōseki, trans. by Yasotaro Mori, contrib. by J. R. Kennedy (Gutenberg text)

• Madame Chrysantheme, by Pierre Loti, contrib. by Albert Sorel (Gutenberg text)