Research links...

The books used in our research are listed in the bibliography of Women in Reiki.
Below are links to various websites that helped with our research as an addition to those books

Part I

Biographies

Women educators and the confucian tradition in Meiji Japan, by Margaret Mehl in Women’s History review

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09612020100200302

History of Soka Gakkai

https://www.sokaglobal.org/about-the-soka-gakkai/our-history.html

Korea as a colony of Japan

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/main_pop/kpct/kp_koreaimperialism.htm

Air raids in Tokyo during World War II

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/07/asia/japan-tokyo-fire-raids-operation-meetinghouse-intl-hnk/index.html

The Meiji Reforms and Obstacles for Women, Japan 1878-1927

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/WR-04.html

Garon, Sheldon. “Women's Groups and the Japanese State: Contending Approaches to Political Integration, 1890-1945.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1993, pp. 5–41. JSTOR

www.jstor.org/stable/132863

Yamamoto and the Planning for Pearl Harbor, by Mark Stille

http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/yamamoto-planning-pearl-harbor/

About Emperor Hirohito’s 1945 surrender speech

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/the-emperors-speech-67-years-ago-hirohito-transformed-japan-forever/261166/

About the "Honourable death of a hundred million"

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/01/magazine/l-pearl-harbor-in-the-mind-of-japan-646191.html

(subscription to NYT needed)

History of Northeast China’s railway

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000575/the-100-year-history-of-northeast-chinas-frontier-railway

About the American occupation in Japan

http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/article/3688/

Soviet declaration of war on Japan

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/s4.asp

Taisho Democracy in Japan (1912-1926)

https://www.facinghistory.org/nanjing-atrocities/nation-building/taisho-democracy-japan-1912-1926

Pictures of Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake

https://asienspiegel.ch/2020/09/der-tag-an-dem-tokio-unterging?fbclid=IwAR0fzdTouJPWsZJfEEttL1bQANDpQ1Fn6yhzoaVpClGk3T6CHXsfhIN2G8E

The US-Japan security alliance

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-japan-security-alliance

1931 Book excerpt about Manchurian Railway

https://books.google.de/books?id=4-EDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA210&dq=Popular+Mechanics+1931+curtiss&hl=en&ei=cLsATbqFMZTjnQf3tNzlDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Popular%20Mechanics%201931%20curtiss&f=true

Feminism in Japan by Barbara Molony. Subject: Gender, Japan Online Publication - Date: Jan 2018 DOI:

https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-194?__prclt=5rDrr6A8

Hanae Kurihara Kramer, Fleeing Defeat: The Japanese exodus from Manchuria, The Journal of Northeast Asian History, Volume 9 Number 1, p. 31-65, 2012

https://uzay.tubitak.gov.tr/sites/images/uzay/06_introduction_of_harbin.pdf

http://contents.nahf.or.kr/japanese/item/downloadItemFile.process?fileName=jn_015_0020.pdf&levelId=jn_015e_0020

Escape from Manchuria chronicles

http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2011/8/16/escape-from-manchuria/

The United States and the Opening to Japan, 1853

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/opening-to-japan

Fan, Carol C. “Asian Women in Hawai'i: Migration, Family, Work, and Identity.” NWSA Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 1996, pp. 70–84. JSTOR. Accessed 5 Feb. 2020.

www.jstor.org/stable/4316424

Issei: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii by Yukiko Kimura, University of Hawaii Press, 1992

https://books.google.de/books?id=4uQH2sIllDgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Yukiko+Kimura%22&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT9IK0kcTvAhVFmqQKHaiYDc8Q6AEwAHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Japanese in Hawaii: A historical and demographic perspective, Eleanor C. Nordyke and Y. Scott Matsumoto

https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/528/2/JL11174.pdf

Martial Law in Hawaii

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Martial_law_in_Hawaii/

Hawaiian monarchy overthrown

https://www.ksbe.edu/assets/pdfs/The_Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Monarchy_PDF.pdf

https://www.nvlchawaii.org/hawaiian-monarchy-overthrown-territory-hawaii

Daishoji Chapter

Information and Pictures from Daishoji castle