Note: compulsory readings have been marked in bold
- Best, Antony, and Oliviero Frattolillo, eds. 2016. Japan and the Great War. 1st ed. 2015 edition. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Chi, Madeleine. “Bureaucratic Capitalists in Operation: Ts'ao Ju-Lin and His New Communications Clique, 1916-1919.” The Journal of Asian Studies 34, no. 3 (May 1975): 675. doi:10.2307/2052549.
- Dickinson, Frederick R. 1999. War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919. Harvard East Asian Monographs. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center.
- Langdon, Frank C. 1957. “Japan’s Failure to Establish Friendly Relations with China in 1917-1918.” Pacific Historical Review 26 (3): 245–58. doi:10.2307/3636215.
- Metzler, Mark. 2006. Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. Twentieth-Century Japan 17. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapter 5: “Divine Providence,” 1914–1918
- Schiltz, Michael. n.d. “Wartime and Post-War Economies (Japan) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1).” Accessed November 11, 2018. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/wartime_and_post-war_economies_japan.
- Schiltz, Michael. 2012. The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895-1937. Harvard University Asia Center. Chapter 3: “Separating the Roots of the Chrysanthemum”: Nishihara Kamezo and the Abortive China Loans, 1917–1918. (see here)
- “社会科授業用資料リスト.” n.d. Accessed November 11, 2018. https://www.jacar.go.jp/siryolist/index.html.
- Inoue, Junnosuke, and Eric Henry De Bunsen. 1931. Problems of the Japanese Exchange, 1914-1926. London: Macmillan and Co. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006103638.
- “WW1: The Siege of Tsingtao.” n.d. BBC News. Accessed November 11, 2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-29801553/ww1-the-siege-of-tsingtao.
- The Telegraph. 2017. “Betrayed Ally: How China Was Snubbed after World War I,” March 21, 2017. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world/china-watch/society/betrayed-ally-snubbed-after-world-war-i/.
- “Japan during World War I.” 2018. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japan_during_World_War_I&oldid=868291760.