InfoGuides: NDLS 280 International Studies Seminar (Japan): PostWar and Modern Japan

Last Updated: Mar 20, 2024 12:23 PM

FInding Books on Postwar and Modern Japan

Check out the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia with a section on Japan. Another encyclopedia is the Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture: Asia and Pacific Oceania.

Postwar Japan-Link is subject search for Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1945-

Modern Day Japan -Link is subject search for Japan History Heisei Period 1989-

Use keywords or subject searches to find books on your topic.

Book Title Examples

Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity
Japan since 1945: From postwar to post-bubble
Many Ways to Be Deaf
U-turns, deaf shock, and the hard of hearing : Japanese deaf identities at the borderlands /

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