About Japan, A teacher's resource

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A growing library of textual and visual resources for background information and classroom teaching, including articles, primary sources, annotated bibliographies, images, maps, timelines and multimedia files. The sources of all the items are carefully documented and the descriptions include important contextual information. Resources are associated with content across the site and thus can serve as an alternative starting point for exploration. Members are also invited to discuss the items and share their experiences of using them in the classroom.

Anne Allison: Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination Podcast


Dr. Anne Allison, author and Professor and Chair at Duke University, analyzes Japanese pop culture crazes, from Godzilla to Power Rangers to Pokemon, and situates them in a global and historical context.

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White Day Display


White Day is a holiday in which men give women gifts, much like Valentine's Day in the United States. This picture is of a display of items for sale at a high-end store. The translation of the sign, which can be seen after the picture is clicked, says a lot about changing gender roles in Japan.

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Souvenirs At Yasukuni Shrine


Pictures of souvenirs, which can be interpreted as nationalistic, being sold at Yasukuni Shrine. This Shrine, dedicated to Japanese war dead, is extremely controversial.

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Cars for Export, 1970s


Thousands of cars await export in this 1975 picture. The Japanese economy at this time was growing at a very high rate. In 1975 the Japanese economy was booming and was the 3rd largest industrial economy.

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Homeless man in Ueno Park


Photograph of a homeless man in Ueno Park in Tokyo in October 2007.

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Clean up of Great Kanto Earthquake


An image of residents of Tokyo beginning to clean the wreckage caused be the 1923 Earthquake.

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Enactment of the Meiji Constitution


A portrait of the Emperor of Japan instating to law the Meiji Constitution.

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Japanese Stock Market 1973


The Japanese stock market in a frenzy after an Arab decision to reduce oil restrictions on Japan.

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Modern Rickshaws


A photo of a line of richshaws lining a Tokyo street in October 2007. They provide a contrast between the old form of transportation, aimed at tourists, with the ultramodern Japanese convenience store sign overhead.

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Reconstruction of the Ginza after the Great Kanto Earthquake


A view of the Ginza in 1925, at which point it had been partially rebuilt following the destruction of the September 1, 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.

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