1885年和1900~1901年曾二度访问日本,1885年访日时曾参加鹿鸣馆的派对,以当时的见闻写下“江户的舞会”(收录在短编集‘秋天的日本’),给芥川龙之介的短编小说‘舞会’带来灵感。1900年八国联军进占北京时,作为海军上尉的他亦来到北京,曾记述来京见闻,成《在北京最后的日子》(Les derniers jours de Pékin)。
Edmund Gosse. French Profiles. New York : Dodd, Mead and company. 1905. Collected reviews of Loti's works, by literary critic Edmund Gosse. From Internet Archive.
Henry James, ed. Impressions. Westminster : A. Constable and Co. 1898. Introduction by Henry James about Loti's life and works. From Internet Archive.
Winifred (Stephens) Whale. French Novelists of To-day. London : John Lane; New York, John Lane company. 1908; see chapter "Pierre Loti", biography and literary survey. From Internet Archive.
Easter Island Foundation sells an English translation of Loti's account of his visit to Easter Island, along with those of Eugène Eyraud, Hippolyte Roussel and Alphonse Pinart, under the title Early Visitors to Easter Island 1864–1877.