Reading Room

• Lecture 01 — The Pirate Coast

  Illustrated lecture slides. PDF · 1.75 MB

• The Pirate Coast — Companion Guide

  Reading and reference guide accompanying Lecture 01. PDF · 322 KB

• Lecture 02 — The Islands Everyone Wanted

  Illustrated lecture slides. PDF · 1.57 MB

• The Islands Everyone Wanted — Companion Guide

  Reading and reference guide accompanying Lecture 02. PDF · 128 KB

• Lecture 03 — Sugar Power

  Illustrated lecture slides. PDF · 1.19 MB

• Sugar Power — Companion Guide

  Reading and reference guide accompanying Lecture 03. PDF · 122 KB

• Lecture 04 — Three Capitals

  Illustrated lecture slides. PDF · 4.68 MB

• Three Capitals — Companion Guide

  Reading and reference guide accompanying Lecture 04. PDF · 326 KB

• Lecture 05 — From Treaty Port to Global Metropolis

  Illustrated lecture slides. PDF · 3.00 MB

• From Treaty Port to Global Metropolis — Companion Guide

  Reading and reference guide accompanying Lecture 05. PDF · 203 KB

Essays and serialized chapters from my Japanese Modernity Substack.

Essays

• The High Price of Hospitality

  The social cost of mass tourism: exhaustion, burnout, and fatigue.

• Recruiting Japanese Youth (1): The Rise of Dark Part-Time Jobs

History and Memory Series

• Chapter 1: A Brief History of Japanese Imperialism
• Chapter 2: Theorizing the Past

  How do societies remember? And what responsibilities do we bear toward pasts we did not experience?

• Chapter 3: Radical Politics and the Rise of Militarism in Japan
• Chapter 4: Representing Atrocity

  City of Life and Death and the memory of Nanjing.

• Chapter 5: Heritage, History, and Memory

  The politics of the authorized past.