1.   Uyehara and Beal, Check List of Archives in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo, Japan, 1868-1945  

This catalogs a collection of 2,000,000 pages of documentary materials “from the simple romantic beginnings of modern Japanese international relations” to the events of the Second World War years.

2.   J. Young, Check List of Microfilm Reproductions of Selected Archives of the Japanese Army, Navy, and other government agencies, 1868-1945        

A catalog of 400,000 pages of documents (Army, Navy, Intelligence, Home Ministry, etc.) seized after the war and returned to Japan in 1957.  Invaluable for both Japanese and Chinese history.

3.   Dull, The Tokyo Trials, a Functional Index to the Proceedings of the IMTFE

This is an inadequate, non-functional guide to the enormous mass of materials produced in connection with the trials.  And, this is dangerous material to work with.  The prosecution didn’t really understand why the war had begun and spent years proving a false charge of conspiracy.  The defense, for obvious reasons, also had an axe to grind (the wrong metaphor).

4.   Young, John, The Research Activities of the South Manchrian Railway Company: A History and Bibliography

The bibliography section in this book lists innumerable works on Manchuria, China, and Korea in so far as Korea impinges on Manchuria.