Primary Sources: Japan: Personal Sources

"In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero fighting the oppressiveness of family and society." Publisher's Description

Reminiscences of Work and travel in Japan.

First American Consul General and Minister to Japan

Translated by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi.

Letters from Home to Home

"The author depicts his experiences as a student at an American Army Japanese language school and as part of the occupation forces in Japan."

Translated from the Iwanami ed. of the Kager nikki published in 1957.

ed. with an introduction by Elizabeth Bisland

The Journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama, 1859-1866

"The Only Woman in the Room is a vivid and very personal account of one woman's life in Europe, prewar Japan, and the United States. As the daughter of renowned Russian pianist Leo Sirota, Beate Gordon grew up in the cosmopolitan world of the concert tour, then settled in Japan in the 1930s.
During World War ll, while her parents remained in Japan under secret service surveillance, Gordon lived alone in America, monitoring Tokyo Radio in five languages for the government and later writing radio propaganda." Description from Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Only-Woman-Room-Memoir/dp/4770021453

Reprinted from the papers of the Hakluyt Society

A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World

A Contemporary Record Drawn from the Diaries and Private and Official papers of Joseph C. Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan, 1932-1942

The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang / edited and translated by Hua-ling Hu, Zhang Lian-hong.

a selection of writing by British visitors to Japan during the Victorian era

translated, with an introduction and annotations by Frederic Trautmann