- Bushido: The Soul of Japan, Nitobe Inazo
- Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created its Own Lost Generation, Michael Zielenziger
- The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, Ruth Benedict
- The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity, Edwin O. Reischauer
- Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunemoto
- In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End, Norma Field
- In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage, William M. Tsutsui and Michiko Ito, eds.
- The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan, Eiko Ikegami
Media that give insight to Japanese values
