Jabarkan Historis dari Kebijakan luar negeri Jepang

Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. Japan's Foreign Relations 1542-1936: A Short History (1979) online 560pp

Beasley, William G. Japanese Imperialism, 1894–1945 (Oxford UP, 1987)

Burns, Richard Dean, and Edward Moore Bennett. Diplomats in Crisis: United States-Chinese-Japanese Relations, 1919-1941 (ABC-Clio, 1974); bibliography

Iriye, Akira. Japan and the wider world: from the mid-nineteenth century to the present (Longman, 1997)

Jung-Sun, Han. "Rationalizing the Orient: The" East Asia Cooperative Community" in Prewar Japan." Monumenta Nipponica (2005): 481-514. in JSTOR

Lafeber, Walter. The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations (1997), a standard scholarly history

Langer, William L. The diplomacy of imperialism: 1890-1902 (2nd ed. 1951), world diplomatic history

Morley, James William, ed. Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941: a research guide (Columbia UP, 1974), comprehensive coverage of diplomatic & military & cultural relations

Flaviu Vasile, Rus, ed.The cultural and diplomatic relations between Romania and Japan. 1880-1920, Cluj-Napoca, Mega Publishing, 2018.

Nish, Ian. Japanese Foreign Policy, 1869-1942: Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka (2001)

Nish, Ian Hill. The origins of the Russo-Japanese war (1985)

Nish, Ian. (1990) "An Overview of Relations between China and Japan, 1895–1945." China Quarterly (1990) 124 (1990): 601-623. online

Shimamoto, Mayako, Koji Ito (Author) and Yoneyuki Sugita. Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy (2015)  excerpt

Sun, Youli, and You-Li Sun. China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931-1941 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993)

Takeuchi, Tatsuji. War And Diplomacy In The Japanese Empire (1935) online; scholarly coverage

Togo, Kazuhiko. Japan's Foreign Policy, 1945-2003: The Quest for a Proactive Policy (2005)

White, John Albert. The Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War (Princeton University Press, 1964)