Shōwa

Sources on Showa era life:

Ruth Benedict's Japan: the Benedictions of Imperialism

ELSON BOLES

A World Made Safe for Differences: Ruth Benedict's "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword"

Christopher Shannon

A Japanese Village Suye Mura by John F. Embree

Beardsley, Hall & Ward – Village Japan (1959)

British factory, Japanese factory; the origins of national diversity in industrial relations

MITI and the Japanese Miracle (1982)