I recently became quite fascinated with this time period and was wondering if anyone had any book recommendations as I did not see any in the booklist. Thanks in advance!
There is a lot of stuff out there, but the thing that strike me as most interesting to read as books would be.
Silverberg, Miriam. Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. University of California Press, 2009.
Brandt, Kim. Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan. Duke University Press Books, 2007
Lewis, Michael. Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan. Berkeley:University of California Press, 2020.
Ross, Kerry, Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth Century Japan. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2015.
Yasar, Kerim. Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Caprio, Mark E. *Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945.*Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.
Atkins, E. Taylor. Blue Nippon Authenticating Jazz in Japan. Durham: DukeUniversity Press, 2001.
Humphreys, Leonard A. *The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920’*s.Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995.
J Charles Schencking The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of NationalR econstruction in Japan. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Brown, Kendall H., and Sharon A. Minichiello. Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity,Nostalgia, And Deco. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2005
.All of the above are books, which you should be able to order from a library. Ifyou have access to JSTOR there are lots of articles. Three that try to sum the era up are
*Dickinson, Frederick R.“Toward a Global Perspective of the Great War: Japan and the Foundations of a Twentieth-Century World.” The American Historical Review 119, no. 4(2014): 1154–83.
*Hoston, Germaine A. “The State, Modernity, and the Fate of Liberalism in Prewar Japan.” The Journal of Asian Studies 51, no. 2 (1992): 287–316.
*Wilson, Sandra. “Enthroning Hirohito: Culture and Nation in 1920s Japan.” The Journal of Japanese Studies 37, no. 2 (2011): 289–323.
There are also lots of novels from the period.
Kawabata, Yasunari, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa. Translated byAlisa Freedman. First edition. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press,2005.
Tanizaki, Junichiro. Naomi. Reprint edition. New York: Vintage, 2001.
Takiji, Kobayashi. The Crab Cannery Ship: And Other Novels of Struggle.Translated by Zeljko Cipris. University of Hawaii Press, 2013.
This is just a start. If you tell me what specific things you are interested in I might be able to suggest more.