# Andrew Gordon Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History ![test](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2026-06/Gordon_Andrew027%20copy.jpg?itok=2DVZhFV0) location\_on Center for Government and International Studies - South Building, Room S236, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-496-4729](tel:617-496-4729) email laptop\_windows [Personal Website](https://scholar.harvard.edu/agordon) laptop\_windows [Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies](https://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/andrew-d-gordon) Office Hours: Please contact Hannah Perry () to set a specific time. Other times available by appointment. 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. His most recent book, *Fabricating Consumers*, examines the making of the modern consumer in 20th century Japan, with a particular focus on the sewing machine. He is currently working with colleagues in Japan and the United States to create a digital archive of Japan’s March 2011 disasters. **Selected Publications** - “[New and Enduring Dual Structures of Employment in Japan: The Rise of Non-Regular Labor, 1980s-2010s](https://academic.oup.com/ssjj/article/2982389/New-and-Enduring-Dual-Structures-of-Employment-in),” in *Social Science Japan Journal* 20, no. 1 (2017): 9-36. - [Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520267855) (University of California Press, 2011). - [Nihonjin ga shiranai Matsuzaka mejaa kakumei](http://publications.asahi.com/ecs/detail/?item_id=8438) \[Matsuzaka’s Unknown Major League Revolution\] (Asahi Shinsho, 2007). - [A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-modern-history-of-japan-9780199930159?q=gordon,%20andrew&lang=en&cc=us) (Oxford University Press, 2002) - 3rd edition published in 2013. - [The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=27175) (Harvard University Press, 1998). - [Postwar Japan as History](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520074750) (University of California Press, 1993). - [Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520080911) (University of California Press, 1991). - [The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=25268) (Harvard University Press, 1985). - ## Faculty [Core Faculty](/faculty/core-faculty) - ## Last Initial (Faculty) [G](/first-letter-last-name/g) - ## Geographic Region [Asia](/region-study/asia) [Japan](/region-study/japan) - ## Theme and Methodology [Class](/theme/class) [Consumption & Material Culture](/theme/consumption-material-culture) [Digital History](/theme/digital-history) [Labor History](/theme/labor-history) [Social History](/theme/social-history) [Women, Gender, & Sexuality](/theme/women-gender-sexuality) - ## Time Period [19th Century](/time-period/19th-century) [20th Century](/time-period/20th-century)