Guy Faure and Laurent Schwab, Japan and Vietnam: A Relation under Influences. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2007. 192 pp. (Distributed in the United States by University of Hawaii Press.) Traces the relationship back to the 14th century.
Thomas R. H. Havens, Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965-1975. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Katsuichi Honda, Vietnam War: A Report through Asian Eyes. Tokyo: Mirai-Sha, 1972. 511 pp. Honda was a correspondent for Asahi Shimbun, in South Vietnam from December 1966 to October 1967, and in North Vietnam in 1968. He is quite critical of the United States. Interestingly, he has a much higher opinion of the Korean forces in Vietnam, stating (pp. 239-46) that his observations did not support the widespread reports of Korean brutality in Vietnam.
Sridhar Krishnaswami, "A Study of Alliance Politics: The Impact of the Vietnam War on American-Japanese Relations." Ph.D. dissertation, Political Science, Miami University, 1983. 250 pp. AAT 8321170.
Douglas H. Mendel, Jr., "Japanese Views of Sato's Foreign Policy: The Credibility Gap." Asian Survey 7:7 (July 1967), pp. 444-456.
Douglas H. Mendel, Jr., "Japanese Opinion on Key Foreign Policy Issues." Asian Survey 9:8 (August 1969), pp. 625-639.
Douglas H. Mendel, Jr., "Japanese Defense in the 1970s: The Public View." Asian Survey 10:12 (December 1970), pp. 1046-1069.
Edwin O. Reischauer, oral history. Reischauer, a top historian of Japan, was U.S. ambassador to Japan 1961-1966. This oral history, from the collection at the LBJ Presidential Library, has been placed online in the Lyndon B. Johnson Oral History collection at the Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia.
Masaya Shiraishi, Japanese Relations with Vietnam: 1951-1987. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program, 1990. 164 pp.
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