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Dreams of Empire
The front cover of the collection catalogue. This offers a tantalizing view of a fraction of the full collection.
Press here to link to the website where the catalogue is available.
Marcuson and Hall Website The catalogue was created for the Caskey Lees, Arts of Pacific Asia Show in San Francisco in February 2011. There were 150 pieces on display, all drawn from the MHJ collection. For the 40 page, color catalogue I wrote the main essay, "The Drive to Mobilize Wartime Society," which illuminates the historical, political and social context in which these extraordinary textiles were produced. |
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 |
