The Black Dragons: Japan’s Secret Societies That Fed the Empire’s Shadow Politics

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Sources & Further Reading:

John J. Stephan, The Russian Far East: A History (Stanford University Press, 1994).

Louise Young, Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (University of California Press, 1998).

Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka, The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001).

Sven Saaler, “The Kokuryūkai (Black Dragon Society) and the Rise of Nationalism, Pan-Asianism, and Militarism in Japan, 1901–1920,” International Journal of Asian Studies 11, no. 2 (2014): 125–160.

Richard Storry, The Double Patriots: A Study of Japanese Nationalism (Chatto & Windus, 1957).

Sven Saaler and Christopher W. A. Szpilman, eds., Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).

Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895–1937 (Princeton University Press, 1989).

Peter Duus, The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895–1910 (University of California Press, 1995).

Marius B. Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan (Harvard University Press, 2000).

Cemil Aydin, The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960 (Cornell University Press, 2008).

Sheldon Garon, Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (Princeton University Press, 1997).

Alan Tansman, ed., The Culture of Japanese Fascism (Duke University Press, 2009).

Hugh Byas, Government by Assassination (Alfred A. Knopf, 1942).

Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895–1945 (Princeton University Press, 1984).

Alexis Dudden, Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005).

Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931–1945 (Princeton University Press, 1996).

Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (HarperCollins, 2000).

John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (W. W. Norton, 1999).

Nick Kapur, Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo (Harvard University Press, 2018).