American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964
by William Manchester
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
by John Toland
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington
by Jack Broughton
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
by Robert Leckie
Toland does a fair job of trying to construct a Japanese perspective of World War II, but I also recommend “Pacific War, 1931-1945” by Saburo Ienaga. Ineaga was a Japanese historian that spent his career fighting his governments attempts to suppress the extent of the atrocities committed by the Japanese Empire.