List of Books on Japanese Baseball

 

Here you can find all of the books on Japanese baseball and Japanese baseball players, that are available in English via Amazon, Archive.org and the library....

The Rise of Japanese Baseball Power, by Robert Obojski (1975)

The Chrysanthemum and the Bat: Baseball Samurai Style, by Robert Whiting (1977)

Sadaharu Oh!: A Zen Way of Baseball, by Sadaharu Oh (1984)

You Gotta Have Wa, by Robert Whiting (1988)

Slugging It Out in Japan: An American Major Leaguer in the Tokyo Outfield, by Warren Cromartie with Robert Whiting (1992)

Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball by Kerry Yo Nakagawa (2001)

Ichiro on Ichiro, by Ichiro Suzuki (2004)

The Samurai Way of Baseball: The Impact of Ichiro and the New Wave from Japan, by Robert Whiting (2005)

Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game, by Robert K. Fitts (2005)

Sayonara Home Run!: The Art of the Japanese Baseball Card, by John Gall and Gary Engel (2006)

Japanese Baseball: A Statistical Handbook, by Daniel E. Johnson (2006)

Bonuses and Biases in Japanese Baseball, by Minoru Nakazato and J. Mark Ramseyer (2007)

Baseball Superstars: Ichiro Suzuki, by Judith Levin (2007)

Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball, by Robert K. Fitts (2008)

Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro, by David Shields (2012)

Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War, by Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu (2012)

Japanese Baseball Road Trip Guide, by Jim Spavins (2011)

Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer, by Bill Staples Jr. (2011)

Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan, by Robert K. Fitts (2012)

Nikkei Baseball, Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues, by Samuel O. Regalado (2013)

Diamond Gods of the Morning Sun, by Ron Hotchkiss (2013)

Japanese American Baseball in California: A History, by Kerry Yo Nakagawa (2014) Google Books Preview

Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer by Robert K. Fitts (2015)

Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball: Cultural Representations of Japan’s National Pastime by Christopher T. Keaveney (2018)

The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan by William W. Kelly (2018)

Shohei Ohtani: The Amazing Story of Baseball's Two-Way Japanese Superstar by Jay Paris (2018)

Gentle Black Giants: A History of Negro Leaguers in Japan by Bill Staples Jr. and Kazuo Sayama (2019)

Yellow & Black Fever: Life, Love and Baseball in the Land of the Rising Sun by James McKnight (2020)

Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers by Robert K. Fitts (2020)

Making Japan's National Game: A Cultural History of Baseball in Japan by Blair Williams (2020)

Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball by Robert Whiting (2021)

Baseball in Occupied Japan: US Postwar Cultural Policy by Takeshi Tanikawa (2021)

Aloha and Sayonara: The 1940 Keio University Baseball Tour of Hawaii by Gary Bedingfield (2022)