Black, Wallace B, and Jean F Blashfleld, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Maxwell Macrmllan International, 1993

This is a recounting of the World War II battles between the United States and Japan on the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa It is written at the youth level

Frank, Richard B , Downfall1 The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, Random House, 1999

This is a history of Japan from 1926 to the end of World Warn in 1945

Golden, Arthur, Memoirs of a Geisha' A Novel, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

This widely popular contemporary fiction received much praise from critics and the general public Golden's novel is a emoir-like tale of the life of a Japanese geisha.

Molasky, Michael S , The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa Literature and Memory, Routledge, 1999,

Molasky's book is a history of the Allied Occupation of Okinawa from 1945-1952