Japanese Values - Literature Index

The following are books that are helpful as an introduction to Japanese values:

1. Bushido: The Soul of Japan, Nitobe Inazo
   
2. Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created its Own Lost Generation, Michael Zielenziger
   
3. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, Ruth Benedict
   
4. The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity, Edwin O. Reischauer
   
5. Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunemoto
   
6. In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End, Norma Field
   
7. In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage, William M. Tsutsui and Michiko Ito, eds.
   
8. The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan, Eiko Ikegami
   
9. The Worldview of the Ainu, Takako Yamada