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"Imperial Cuisines in Taisho Foodways," in Eric Rath and Stephanie Assmann, eds., Japanese Foodways, Past and Present, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010, p. 145-165.In this chapter I argue that Japanese foodways grew out of both a dialogue within Japan’s colonial empire and a discourse bent on separating the concept of national food away from and in distinction to China. For post-Meiji Restoration (1868) Japan, we cannot understand “Japanese cuisine” in a geographical and historical vacuum as a product that grew up in isolation. Indeed, one of the major ideological shifts in identity during the Taisho era (1912-26) was the incorporation and consumption of Chinese food and its influence on Japanese cuisine and diet, even as the very concept of Japanese cuisine was forming.
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Selected WorksBook Chapter
This research considers some of the ways in which sweets increasingly came to be incorporated into the everyday lives of Japanese people, as an indicator of rising levels of ‘modernity’.
Overview of Japan's efforts to market and promote the 1940 Olympic games in Tokyo that never took place
Chapter in edited volume on Taisho era Japanese cuisine
An analysis of Japanese wartime kamishibai and the market for children's propaganda
My chapter on Godzilla as Japan's first international popular culture icon.
Catalogue
See my essay on Alan Marcuson's fantastic collection of imperial Japanese textiles.
Online Article
Academic Journal Article
Article on John Provoo, Japan and the Cold War in the US
Article on postwar BC class Japanese war crimes
How history influences politics and culture in Taiwan, Japan and China
Read how America used the Reader's Digest for postwar propaganda in Japan.
Who had fun during World War Two?
See my co-authored, award-winning article on Japanese wartime radio propaganda.
Article about Japanese media "hero" and crime
Brief Article
Download the article from the Cambridge University Research Magazine
Book
The only English- language book that delves into the intricacies of WWII Japanese propaganda |
