Recent books on sound and music in Japan:
Asaba, Y. (2025) Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism beyond the West. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Aalgard, S, (2023) Homesick blues: Politics, Protest and Musical Storytelling in Modern Japan. University of Hawai’I Press.
Buscatto, M. (2024) Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression. Abington: Routledge.
Chenhall, R., Kohn, T. and Stevens, C.S. (2021) Sounding out Japan : a sensory ethnographic tour. Abingdon, Oxon; Routledge.
Fukushima, K. and Ueno gakuen Daigaku Nihon ongakushi kenkyūjo, (Eds.) (2022) Rekishigaku to shite no Nihon ongakushi kenkyū = Research on Japanese music history as a historical discipline. Tokyo: Izumi shoin.
Haukamp, I., Hoene, C. and Smith, M.D. (eds) (2023) Asian sound cultures : voice, noise, sound, technology. Abingdon; Routledge.
Hosokawa, S. (2021) Oto to mimi kara kangaeru : rekishi, shintai, tekunorojī = Reflecting on an ear for sound : history, embodiment and technology. Tokyo, Japan: ARTES.
Kaneko, T. (2024) Oto no hon o Yomō: Oto to Geijitsu meguru bukku gaido= Reading Books on Sound: A guide to writings on sound and art. Tokyo, Nakanishiya.
Mehl, M. (2024) Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert. Open Book Publishers.
Mross, M. (2022). Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.
Pellitteri, M. (Ed.) (2024) The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Japanese Animation. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Raine, M. and Nordström, J. (eds) (2021) The culture of the sound image in prewar Japan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Rambelli, F. (Ed.) (2025) Gagaku: The Cultural Impact of Japanese Ceremonial Music. Berlin: De Gruyter..
Suzuki, S., Cordereix, P., Bergounioux, G. (eds) (2021) Mémoire sonore du Japon : le disque, la musique, la langue. Orléans, France: Presses universitaires d’Orléans.
YAMAUCHI, F., & WANG, Y. (Eds.). (2024). Phonographic Modernity: The Gramophone Industry and Music Genres in East and Southeast Asia. University of Illinois Press.
Yanagisawa, E. (2022). Fīrudo rekōdingu nyūmon: Hibiki no naka de sekai to deau = Introduction to field recording: Meeting the world in resonance. Tokyo: Firumu āto.
Zaborowski, R. (2024) Music Generations in the Digital Age: Social Practices of Listening and Idols in Japan. Amsterdam University Press.