Further reading

Amino, Y. Rethinking Japanese History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2012.

Barnes, G.L. State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a 4th-Century Ruling Elite. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 1988.

Hudson, M. The Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.

Kidder, J.E. Himiko: The Elusive Kingdom of Yamatai. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007.

Mizoguchi, K. The Archaeology of Japan: From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Totman, C. Japan: An Environmental History. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014.