8 sources cited across the Japan corpus — aggregated from all document Primary Sources Consulted blocks, deduplicated by title prefix.
This document is itself a synthesis of secondary-source bibliography rather than a primary-source-driven analytical anchor. The works enumerated in §§2–9 below constitute the canon. The document's analytical contribution is the organisation, the inter-author commentary on contested readings, and the identification of open questions that the canon collectively addresses or leaves unresolved.
The bibliographic frame is built from:
The cumulative bibliographies of the principal Japan-studies postwar surveys — Gordon (2019), Pyle (2007, 2018), Pempel (1998) — checked against each other for canon convergence.
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Japan section's *Journal of Japanese Studies* and *Monumenta Nipponica* review essays from 2010–2024 for currency of the post-2010 canon evolution.
The U.S. Library of Congress Japan Documentation Center holdings for English-language editions and translations of Japanese-language primary works.
The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation's annual *US-Japan Bibliography* and its 2018 revision.
The Japan Foundation's *Japan Library* publication-translation programme catalogue (continuous since 2015).
Where this document quotes specific assessments of a work's canonical position, those assessments are attributed by name to the reviewer or surveyor concerned.