People
Faculty
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)
Andrew Gordon
Position: Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History; Director, Reishauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Field: East Asia
Specialty: Labor, class and the social and political history of modern Japan
Fall 2011:
- History 2455 Forced to be Free: Americans as Occupiers (Graduate Seminar in General Education)
- History 2653 Historiography of Modern Japan: Proseminar
Spring 2012:
- History 1623 20th-Century Japan
- History 2651 Japanese History: Seminar
Contact Info
Center for Government and International Studies-South Building
Room S236
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.496.4729
Office Hours: Monday 2:00-4:00 or by appointment. Please contact Margot Chamberlain at chamber2@fas.harvard.edu