1. Black Ships & Samurai
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Perry
1.3 Black Ships
1.4 Facing "East"
1.5 Facing "West"
1.6 Portraits
1.7 Gifts
1.8 Nature
1.9 Sources
2. The Hibiya Riot of 1905
2.1 Making News Graphic
2.2 Challenging the State
2.3 Identifying "the People"
2.4 Democracy & the Crowd
2.5 Protest & Profits
2.6 Sources & Credits
3. Selling Shiseido
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Cosmopolitan Glamour
3.3 Marketing Beauty
3.4 Luxury & Thrift in Wartime
3.5 Sources, Resources, Credits
ADDITIONAL TEXTBOOK READINGS
For additional reading, we recommend Professor Andrew Gordon's A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, available for rent or purchase here.
Professor Gordon’s survey history of modern Japan, used in many college classes, is available for purchase as an e-book, here.