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“Sweetness and Empire: Sugar Consumption in Imperial Japan”
This work is a chapter in the the edited volume, Janet Hunter and Penelope Francks, eds., The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), p. 127-150. I argue that although sugar was consumed as a luxury item in early-modern Japan, in the early decades of the twentieth century, and especially during the war years, the consumption of sweets became inseparable from the idea of Japanese modernity, linked to the act of consumption within the sphere of Japanese empire. |
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 |
