W. Scott Morton. Japan: Its History and Culture. New York, McGraw-Hill Companies, 1993.

Beginning with its earliest known civilization (about 3,000 B.C.), Japan: It's History and Culture traces aspects of Japanese religion, art, militarism, and agriculture and analyzes the social, political, and economic life of Asia's wealthiest nation. Richly anecdotal, this book casts fascinating sidelights on significant Japanese personalities, works of literature, and historic events, and the characteristic of the Japanese culture to adopt other's material for their own.