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"Imperial Japan" as a book category covers works about Japan in its era as a modern empire—roughly from the Meiji Restoration (late 19th century) through the end of World War II (1945)—and the political, military, diplomatic, economic, social and cultural phenomena that accompanied its rapid modernization, expansion, and colonial rule. It includes scholarly histories and analyses, primary-source collections and memoirs, biographies of leaders and soldiers, studies of policies in Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria and occupied China, and fiction or travel writing set against the imperial backdrop. Common themes are industrialization, nationalism and state Shinto, militarism and wartime mobilization, empire-building and colonial governance, civilian life under authoritarian rule, and postwar memory and reckoning; perspectives may come from Japanese, colonized peoples, and international observers.

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