Any book/author recommendations about history of Japan?

by Creeper690

I am a history undergrad and currently trying to find my area of interest, I decided to give a go to history of Japan, specificaly about the relations with the europeans, but I've found myself in the dark as I am having difficulties to find a specialist in my department.

SarahAGilbert

Hi there anyone interested in recommending things to OP! While you might have a title to share, this is still a thread on /r/AskHistorians, and we still want the replies here to be to an /r/AskHistorians standard - presumably OP would have asked at /r/history or /r/askreddit if they wanted non-specialist opinion. So give us some indication why the thing you're recommending is valuable, trustworthy, or applicable! Posts that provide no context for why you're recommending a particular podcast/book/novel/documentary/etc, and which aren't backed up by a historian-level knowledge on the accuracy and stance of the piece, will be removed.