The Read Japan program donates books about contemporary Japan to libraries around the world. Libraries can apply to receive books from the "100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan" catalogue by submitting applications to The Nippon Foundation. These 100 books, which were selected by a committee of Japanese and foreign scholars, journalists etc., cover five categories, Politics & International Relations, Economy & Business, Society & Culture, Literature and Arts, and History.

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Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library requested and received 55 books from the donation catalog in Fall 2011.

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Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, third shogun of the Ashikaga family, built Kinkaku-ji, Temple of the Golden Pavilion, as a retreat in Kyoto, Japan.

To find these books within our library, search the "Book Search" box above.

Politics/Government/International Relations

• The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa by Yukichi Fukuzawa
• Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News by Ellis S. Krauss
• Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements by Koichi Hasegawa
• Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan by Peter J. Katzenstein
• A Discourse By Three Drunkards On Government by Nakae Chomin
• The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: A New Assessment by Ian Nish (Ed.)
• Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads: Challenges and Options for the Twenty-First Century by Yutaka Kawashima
• Japan's Love-Hate Relationship with the West by Sukehiro Hirakawa
• Japan's Quest for a Permanent Security Council Seat: A Matter of Pride or Justice? by Reinhard Drifte
• Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan by Richard J. Samuels
• Media and Politics in Japan by Susan J. Pharr and Ellis S. Kraus (Eds.)
• Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy by T. J. Pempel
• Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics by Masao Maruyama
• The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s by Sadako Ogata
• The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Past, Present, and Future by Michael J. Green & Patrick M. Cronin (Eds.)

Economics/Business

• British Factory - Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations by Ronald Dore
• The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota by Takahiro Fujimoto
• Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949 by Kaoru Sugihara (Ed.)
• Japan in the 21st Century: Environment, Economy, and Society by Pradyumna P. Karan
• The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins by Tetsuji Okazaki & Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (Eds.)
• The Japanese Firm: The Sources of Competitive Strength by Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore (Eds.)
• Japan's Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change by Jennifer A. Amyx
• Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan by William M. Tsutsui
• The Sun Also Sets: The Limits to Japan's Economic Power by Bill Emmott
• 21st-Century Japanese Management: New Systems, Lasting Values by James C. Abegglan

Society/Culture

• Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
• Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868 by Matsunosuke Nishiyama
• Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches by Robert Goodman (Ed.)
• Gender and Development: The Japanese Experience in Comparative Perspective by Mayumi Maruyama (Ed.)
• Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots by Timothy N. Hornyak
• Neighborhood Tokyo by Theodore C. Bestor
• Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan by Morris Low, Shigeru Nakayama, and Hitoshi Yoshioka
• Tokugawa Religion: The Cultural Roots of Modern Japan by Robert N. Bellah
• Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World by Theodore C. Bestor

Literature/Arts

• The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto by Kenji Nakagami
• Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga by Frederik L. Schodt
• Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times by Miriam Silverberg
• In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
• Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction by Noriko Mizuta Lippit and Kyoko Iriye Selden (Eds.)
• Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics by Paul Gravett
• I Haven't Dreamed of Flying for a While by Taichi Yamada
• The Tales of the Heike by Burton Watson (Trans.)
• The Wild Goose by Ogai Mori

History

• The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800 by Brett L. Walker
• A Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi by Kiyosawa Kiyoshi
• From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States by Sadao Asada
• Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945 William G. Beasley
• Modern Japan by Peter Duus
• Postwar Japan as History by Andrew Gordon (Ed.)
• Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration by Marius B. Jansen
• State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu by Ronald P. Toby
• Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics by Gregory Smits
• From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor: Who Was Responsible? by The Yomiuri Shimbun