Tokyo/Bibliography

Guides

 * DK. Tokyo (2008) excerpt and text search
 * Frommer's Tokyo(2008) excerpt and text search
 * Waley, Paul. Tokyo Now and Then: An Explorer's Guide. (1984). 592 pp
 * Yanagihara, Wendy. Lonely Planet Tokyo Encounter (2007) excerpt and text search

Contemporary

 * Allinson, Gary D. Suburban Tokyo: A Comparative Study in Politics and Social Change. (1979). 258 pp.
 * Bestor, Theodore. Neighborhood Tokyo (1989). online edition
 * Bestor, Theodore. Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World, (2004) online edition
 * Fowler, Edward. San’ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo. ( 1996) ISBN: 0801485703.
 * Friedman, Mildred, ed. Tokyo, Form and Spirit. (1986). 256 pp.
 * Jinnai, Hidenobu. Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology. (1995). 236 pp.
 * Reynolds, Jonathan M. "Japan's Imperial Diet Building: Debate over Construction of a National Identity." Art Journal. 55#3 (1996) pp 38+. online edition
 * Sassen, Saskia. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.(1991). 397 pp.
 * Sorensen, A. Land Readjustment and Metropolitan Growth: An Examination of Suburban Land Development and Urban Sprawl in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area (2000) excerpt and text search
 * Waley, Paul. "Tokyo-as-world-city: Reassessing the Role of Capital and the State in Urban Restructuring." Urban Studies 2007 44(8): 1465-1490. Issn: 0042-0980 Fulltext: Ebsco

History

 * Beard, Charles A. The Administration and Politics of Tokyo (1923) online edition
 * Brown, Arlo Ayres, III. "The Great Tokyo Riot: The History and Historiography of the Hibiya Incendiary Incident of 1905."  PhD dissertation Columbia U. 1986. 425 pp.  DAI 1986 47(3): 1025-A. DA8610746  Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
 * Cybriwsky, Roman. Tokyo: The Shogun's City at the Twenty-first Century. (1998). 260 pp.
 * Edoin, Hoito. The Night Tokyo Burned. (1987). 272 pp.  On March 1945
 * Fiévé, Nicolas and Paul Waley, eds. Japanese capitals in historical perspective: place, power and memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo (2003)
 * Freedman, Alisa D. "Tracking Japanese Modernity: Commuter Trains, Streetcars, and Passengers in Tokyo Literature, 1905-1935."  PhD dissertation U. of Chicago 2002. 300 pp.  DAI 2002 63(4): 1347-A. DA3048377  Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
 * Griggs, M. Pierce. "From Civilizing to Expertizing Bureaucracy: Changing Educational Emphasis in Government-Supported Schools of Tokyo (Edo) during the Tokugawa Period and Early Meiji Era."  PhD dissertation  U. of Chicago 1997. 303 pp.  DAI 1998 58(10): 4031-A. DA9811860  Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
 * Hastings, Sally Ann. Neighborhood and Nation in Tokyo, 1905-1937 (1995),
 * Karacas, Cary Lee. "Tokyo from the Fire: War, Occupation, and the Remaking of a Metropolis."  PhD dissertation U. of California, Berkeley 2006. 333 pp.   DAI 2007 67(8): 3111-A. DA3228373  Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
 * McClain, James L., John M. Merriman, and Ugawa Kaoru, eds. Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era (1994)
 * Masai, Y. "Tokyo: From a feudal million city to a global supercity," Geographical Review of Japan (1990) 63(B-1): 1–16
 * Miller, Ian Jared. "The Nature of the Beast: The Ueno Zoological Gardens and Imperial Modernity in Japan, 1882-1945."  PhD dissertation Columbia U. 2004. 273 pp.  DAI 2007 68(1): 304-A. DA3249167  Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
 * Phillips, David Peter. "Intersections of Modernity and Tradition: An Urban Planning History of Tokyo in the Early Meiji Period (1868-1888)."  PhD dissertation U. of Pennsylvania 1996. 241 pp.  DAI 1996 57(4): 1879-A. DA9627986  Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
 * Raz, Aviad E. Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland. (1999). 240 pp.
 * Rozman, Gilbert. "Edo's Importance in the Changing Tokugawa Society." Journal of Japanese Studies 1974 1(1): 91-112. Issn: 0095-6848 in Jstor]
 * Seidensticker, Edward. Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake (1983)
 * Seidensticker, Edward. Tokyo Rising: The City since the Great Earthquake. (1990). 384 pp.  online book review
 * Siebert, Loren. "Using GIS to Document, Visualize, and Interpret Tokyo's Spatial History." Social Science History 2000 24(3): 536-574. Issn: 0145-5532 online
 * Smith, Henry D., II. "Tokyo as an Idea: an Exploration of Japanese Urban Thought until 1945." Journal of Japanese Studies 1978 4(1): 45-80. Issn: 0095-6848 in Jstor
 * Tajima, Kayo. "The Marketing of Urban Human Waste in the Edo/Tokyo Metropolitan Area: 1600-1935."  PhD dissertation Tufts U. 2005. 189 pp.  DAI 2005 66(3): 1123-A. DA3167536  Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
 * Takenaka-O'Brien, Akiko. "The Aesthetics of Mass-Persuasion: War and Architectural Sites in Tokyo, 1868-1945."  PhD dissertation Yale U. 2004. 549 pp.  DAI 2004 65(3): 730-A. DA3125312  Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses