directly pertinent books
to read
UNREAD Michael Fisch, An
Anthropology of the Machine:
Tokyo’s Commuter Train Network (Chicago ;
London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018).
UNREAD Simon Andrew Avenell,
Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the
Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2010).
read
READ Jessamyn R. Abel,
Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of
the World’s First Bullet Train, Studies
of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia
University (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press,
2022).
READ Steven J. Ericson, The
Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji
Japan, Harvard East Asian Monographs 168
(Cambridge Mass: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University,
1996).
READ Louise Young, Beyond
the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar
Japan, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian
Institute (Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press,
2013).
READ Alisa Freedman and
Yasunari Kawabata, eds., Tokyo in Transit:
Japanese Culture on the Rails and
Road (Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press,
2011).
notable books
to read
UNREAD Paul H. Noguchi,
Delayed Departures, Overdue Arrivals:
Industrial Familialism and the Japanese National
Railways (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2022), https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824890681.
comparative
to read
UNREAD Bruce A. Elleman and
Stephen Kotkin, eds., Manchurian Railways and the Opening of
China: An International History (Armonk, N.Y: M.E.
Sharpe, 2010).
UNREAD Daqing Yang,
Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese
Expansion in Asia, 1883-1945 (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard
University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press,
2010).
otherwise useful
to read
READING Elyssa Faison,
Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan
(Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2007).
UNREAD Martin Dusinberre, Hard
Times in the Hometown: A History
of Community Survival in Modern Japan
(Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2012).
UNREAD Jordan Sand, Tokyo
Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects
(Berkeley: University of California press, 2013).
UNREAD Alice Yu-Ting Tseng,
Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration,
1868-1940, Spatial Habitus : Making and Meaning in
Asia’s Architecture (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2018).
read
READ Andrew Gordon, Labor
and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan, 1. paperback
print, Twentieth-Century Japan 1 (Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press, 1992).