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)

America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy - Naoko Shibusawa - During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy in the East. Though we distinguished "good Germans" from the Nazis, we condemned all Japanese indiscriminately as fanatics and savages. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia.

Karen Kelsky - Women on the Verge -Japanese Women, Western Dreams

Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2017).