Japan -- Description and travel
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Japan -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
- Hokkaido (Japan) -- Description and travel
- Noto Peninsula (Japan) -- Description and travel
- Japan -- Description and travel -- 1801-1900
- Japan -- Description and travel -- 1901-1945
- Japan -- Description and travel -- 1945-
- Japan -- Description and travel -- To 1800
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New York to Peking (San Francisco: Privately printed, 1921), by Blanche Sellers Ortman- As the Hague Ordains: Journal of a Russian Prisoner's Wife in Japan (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1907), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
- An English Girl in Japan (second edition; London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., 1906), by Ella M. Hart Bennett (page images at Google; US access only)
- Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East (1897), by Lafcadio Hearn
- Glimpses of Old Japan, 1861-1866 (Tokyo: Methodist publishing house, 1908), by Margaret Tate Kinnear Ballagh
- Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, by Lafcadio Hearn
- Japan, by John Finnemore, illust. by Ella Du Cane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Jinrikisha Days in Japan (revised edition; New York: Harper and Bros., 1902), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Journal From Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist (London: Blackie and Son, 1910), by Marie Carmichael Stopes (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, by Isabella L. Bird (Gutenberg text)
- A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan (London: Sisley's, n.d.), by Gertrude Adams Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Roving East and Roving West, by E. V. Lucas (Gutenberg text)
- Letters From China and Japan (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1920), by John Dewey and Alice Chipman Dewey, ed. by Evelyn Dewey (Gutenberg text)
- Descripción de los Reinos, Costas, Puertos e Islas que hay Desde el Cabo de Buena Esperanza Hasta los Leyquios; Libro que Trata del Descubrimiento y Principio del Estrecho que se Llama de Magallanes; y Descrición de Parte del Japón (in Spanish; first part variously attributed to Barbosa or Magalhaes (Magellan); Madrid: Estab. Tip. de Torrent y Compañía, 1920), ed. by Antonio Blázquez y Delgado Aguilera, contrib. by Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães, and Ginés de Mafra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Newfoundland to Cochin, China, By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ranald MacDonald: The Narrative of His Early Life on the Columbia.Under the Hudson's Bay Company's Regime, by Ranald MacDonald (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
- The History of Japan (2 volumes; London: Printed for the translator, 1727), by Engelbert Kaempfer, trans. by John Gaspar Scheuchzer
- The History of Japan, Together With a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 1690-92 (3 volumes; includes an appendix on a 1673 voyage to Japan by Delboe, Gibben, and Ramsden; Glasgow: J. MacLehose and Sons; New York: Macmillan, 1906), by Engelbert Kaempfer, trans. by John Gaspar Scheuchzer, contrib. by Simon Delboe, Hamond Gibben, and William Ramsden
- Alone With the Hairy Ainu: or, 3,800 Miles on a Pack Saddle in Yezo and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands (London: J. Murray, 1893), by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan, by Percival Lowell (Gutenberg text)
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Filed under: Japan- Japan: A Country Study (fifth edition, 1992), ed. by Ronald E. Dolan and Robert L. Worden (multiple formats at loc.gov)
- Report from Tokyo: A Message to the American People by Joseph C. Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan, 1932 to 1941 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942), by Joseph C. Grew (page images at HathiTrust)
- Through the Torii (Boston: Four Seas Co., 1922), by Yoné Noguchi
- Exotics and Retrospectives (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan, for the Use of Travellers and Others (fifth edition revised; London: John Murray, 1905), by Basil Hall Chamberlain (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Geschichte des Christentums in Japan (2 volumes in 1, in German; 1902-1904), by Hans Haas
- Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (based on the 1896 edition; this edition Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), by Lafcadio Hearn (PDF at unl.edu)
- Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic, by Sidney Lewis Gulick (Gutenberg text)
- Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (New York: Macmillan, ca. 1904), by Lafcadio Hearn
- The Invention of a New Religion, by Basil Hall Chamberlain
- Japan, Foe of Freedom: Some Important Economic, Historical and Political Facts About the Ruthless Enemy We Are Fighting in the Pacific (New York: Book-of-the-hour Company, 1942), by Stanley Nehmer, illust. by J. Camarero (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kokoro, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
- Kokoro (German translation and notes; Frankfurt am Main: Rütten und Loening, 1905), by Lafcadio Hearn, trans. by Berta Franzos, contrib. by Hugo von Hoffmansthal (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Kokoro (German translation and notes; Frankfurt am Main: Rütten und Loening, 1907), by Lafcadio Hearn, trans. by Berta Franzos, contrib. by Hugo von Hoffmansthal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Appeal of Japanese Fishing People to the World Concerning the Question of Rhee Line (Tokyo: Japan-Korea Fishery Deliberation Headquarters, 1953) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Newfoundland to Cochin, China, By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Lady Shikibu Murasaki, Izumi Shikibu, and Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, trans. by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi, contrib. by Amy Lowell
- Japan's Future in East Asia and the Pacific (2007), ed. by Mari Pangestu and Ligang Song (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
- A History of Wealth and Poverty: Why a Few Nations are Rich and Many Poor (electronic edition; originally published 1994), by John P. Powelson (HTML at quaker.org)
- Japan from a Japanese Perspective: Some Pointers for Textbook Writers and Publishers, by International Society for Educational Information (HTML at archive.org)
- Diaspora Without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan (c2009), ed. by Sonia Ryang and John Lie (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
- Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity (c2008), by John Lie (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
- 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)
- Kimono (1922), by John Paris (Gutenberg text)
- 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)
- 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)
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