Professor Gordon teaches courses on modern Japanese history with a primary research interest in labor, class and the social and political history of modern Japan. He has most recently published A Modern History of Japan. He is currently working on the making of the modern consumer in 20th century Japan, with a particular focus on the sewing machine.

Selected Publications

• Nihonjin ga shiranai Matsuzaka mejaa kakumei [Matsuzaka’s Unknown Major League Revolution] Asahi shinsho (2007)
• The Modern History of Japan (2002) Second edition forthcoming 2008
• The Wages of Affluence (1999)
• Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (1991)
• The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955 (1985)

Contact Info

Center for Government and International Studies-South Building

Room S236

1730 Cambridge Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

agordon@fas.harvard.edu

617.496.4729

Office Hours: Monday 2:00-4:00 & Tuesday 1:00-2:00, email Margot Chamberlain for appt.

Course(s): 1623, HSA 14, 2651, 2653

Curriculum Vitae