• New Year's Day Taika Reform Edict (646)
• Japan's Closed Country Edict (1635)
• Meiji Constitution of Japan (1889)
• Tripartite Act (1940)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Pearl Harbor" Speech (1941)
• Draft Proposals for Peace between the Governments of Japan and the United States (1941)
• Japan's Fourteen-part Message (1941)
• Harry S. Truman: Statement Announcing the Use of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (1945)
• Douglas MacArthur: Radio Broadcast after the Surrender of Japan (1945)
• U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (1946)
• Japanese Seventeen-Article Constitution (604)
• Nihongi (720)
• Yengishiki (927)
• Saint Francis Xavier: Letter to the Society of Jesus in Europe (1552)
• Hakuin Ekaku: .Song of Meditation. (ca. 1718)
• Yukichi Fukuzawa: .Good-bye Asia. (1885)
• Kita Ikki: General Outline of Measures for the Reorganization of Japan (1923)
• Emperor Hirohito: Imperial Rescript on Surrender of Japan (1945)
• Constitution of Japan (1947)
• James Fallows: 'Containing Japan' (1989)

General Histories

• De beschryving van Japan
  bu Engelbert Kaempfer
• 1727 - 2 vols
• 1728 Scheuchzer's translation
• 1906 3 vols
  The history of Japan
  together with a description of the kingdom of Siam, 1690-92
  Translated by J.G Scheuchzer<