Selected Works
- The Bombed: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japanese Memory, Diplomatic History 19, no. 2 (Spring 1995)
- Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999; W. W. Norton) — winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize
- Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese experience, 1878-1954 (1988; Harvard University Press; ISBN 0-674-25126-1)
- Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays (1995; New Press; ISBN 1-56584-279-0)
- Origins of the Modern Japanese State: Selected Writings of E.H. Norman (1975; Pantheon; ISBN 0-394-70927-6)
- War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986; Pantheon; ISBN 0-394-75172-8)
- Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq (New York: Norton : New Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-393-06150-5).
- Ways of Forgetting: Japan in the Modern World (The New Press, 2011)
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