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• Seien kaikoroku (Seien Kaikoroku Kankōkai, 1927), by Yūji Takahashi, Tōshū Onuki, and Eiichi Shibusawa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meiji zenki (Hakubunsha, 1884), by Dai Suzuki (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Zukunft Russlands und Japans : die deutschen Milliarden in Gefahr (Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1905), by Rudolf Emil Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Japan in the beginning of the 20th century (Tokyo-Shoin, 1904), by Japan. Nōshōmushō and Haruki Yamawaki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thrilling stories of the Russian-Japanese war a vivid panorama of land and naval battles, a realistic description of twentieth century warfare, the awful struggle for Japanese freedom, the peace and safety of the Orient, and the protection of helpless China from the greed of foreign foes : also a complete history of Japan, Russia, China, Korea and Manchuria (World Publishing, 1904), by J. Martin Miller, Kogoro Takahira, and Nelson A. Miles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nichiroku 20-seiki (Kōdansha, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nichiroku 20-seiki (Kōdansha, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Darkness of the sun (Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1947), by Richard Terrill Baker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Travis Workman
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• My Forty Year Fight for Korea (New York: A. A. Wyn, c1951), by Yong-sin Im, ed. by Emanuel H. Demby (page images at HathiTrust)
• V Kogti͡akh I͡aponskogo Imperializma: Borʹba Koreĭskogo Naroda za Nezavisimostʹ (in Russian; Moscow: Government Publishing House, 1919), by Vladimir Dmitrievich Vilenskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Administrative Reforms in Korea: Articles Reprinted From the "Seoul Press" (Seoul: The Seoul Press Office, 1919), by Seuru Puressusha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Japanese Atrocities in Korea: Reports Emphasized and Made Convincing by Japanese Propaganda (1920) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2013), by Serk-Bae Suh (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)
• Korea's fight for freedom. (AMS Press, 1970), by Fred A. McKenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Results of three years' administration of Chosen since annexation ([Seoul] : [Printing Office of the Government-General of Chosen], 1914., 1914), by Korea and Masatake Terauchi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The other side of the Korean question : fresh light on some important factors (Seoul Press, 1920), by Frank Herron Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chōsen shisei jūgonenshi (Chōsen Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1925), by Takeshi Tauchi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chōsen saikinshi (Chōsen oyobi Manshūsha, 1926), by Shunjō Tokio (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sennan hatten shi (Chōsen Shinbunsha, 1913), by Chōsen Shinbunsha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chōsen tōji no hihan. (1926), by Kyūya Ishimori (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chōsen-gō (Sanseidō, 1910), by Nihon Rekishi Chiri Gakkai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Korean situation : authentic accounts of recent events (The Commission, 1919), by Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Commission on Relations with the Orient (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chōsen dokuritsu sōjō shiron (Chōsen Kenkyūkai, 1921), by Nanmei Aoyagi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chōsen tōchiron (Ueda Tsutomu, 1920), by Tsutomu Ueda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Address of Dr. Rentaro Mizuno, Administrative Superintendent of the Government-general of Chosen at the Tenth Annual conference of the Federal Council of Protestant Evangelical Missions in Korea, September 21, 1921. (1921), by Rentarō Mizuno (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Korean situation. Number 2. (the Commission on Relations with the Orient of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 1920), by Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Commission on Relations with the Orient (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shisei 5-nen Kinen Chōsen Bussan Kyōshinkai Keijō Kyōsankai hōkoku (Keijō Kyōsankai Zanmu Toriatsukaisho, 1916), by Shisei gonen Kinen Chōsen Bussan Kyōshinkai. Keijō Kyōsankai Zanmu Toriatsukaisho (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La paix menacie en extrême-orient. (Chantoung-Corée). (Ligue des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, 1920), by Félicien Challaye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rebirth of Korea; the reawakening of the people, its causes, and the outlook. (London : Central Board of Missions and S.P.C.K., 1920., 1920), by Hugh Heung-wo Cynn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Korea's Fight for Freedom, by Fred A. McKenzie (Gutenberg ebook)

• Chōsen kizoku retsuden (Ōmura Tomonojō, 1910), by Tomonojō Omura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Chosŏn kongnon (Ōkura Jōhō Sābisu, 1913), by Han-Il Pigyo Munhwa Yŏn'gu Sent'ŏ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chōsen. (Chōsen Sōtokufu, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chōsen (Chosŏn Chʻongdokpu, in the 1910s), by Korea (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chōsen kōron. (880-02 Keijō-fu : Chōsen Kōronsha, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chōsen Sōtokufu geppō. (Chōsen Sōtokufu, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chōsen ihō. (Chōsen Sōtokufu, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Honson gunshi (880-02 Hongsŏng-gun : Hongsŏng- Kunch'ŏng, Taishō 14 [1925], 1925), by Hongsŏng Kunji P'yŏnch'an Wiwŏnhoe p'yŏn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Kankoku dai sanji shisei nenpō (Chōsen Sōtokufu, 1911), by Korea (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The great earthquake of 1923 in Japan. ([Tokyo], 1926), by Japan. Naimushō. Shakaikyoku and Morihiko Fujisawa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2002), by Gennifer S. Weisenfeld (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Japanese artists and the avant-garde, 1905-1931 (University of California Press, 2002), by Gennifer S. Weisenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)

• Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Tatiana Linkhoeva (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Taishō daishinsai daikasai (Dai Nihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha, 1923), by Dai Nihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Taishō shinsaishi. (Naimushō Shakaikyoku, 1926), by Japan. Kōseishō. Shakaikyoku (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), by Sidney Xu Lu (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Travis Workman
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), by Sidney Xu Lu (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Nomonhan : Japanese-Soviet tactical combat, 1939 (Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1981), by Edward J. Drea and Combat Studies Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christianity in modern Japan (American Baptist Publication Society, 1905), by Ernest W. Clement (page images at HathiTrust)

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