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Political Protest in Japan, Part II 戦間期日本の政治的抗議活動 (下） (2014)
Journal Article
Gerteis, C., & Dower, J. W. (2014). Political Protest in Japan, Part II 戦間期日本の政治的抗議活動 (下）. Japan focus, 12(37.2),

Between 2002 and 2013, the Visualizing Cultures (VC) project at M.I.T. produced a number of “image-driven” online units addressing Japan and China in the modern world. Co-directed by John Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa, VC tapped a wide range of hitherto... Read More about Political Protest in Japan, Part II 戦間期日本の政治的抗議活動 (下）.

Beyond the Bubble, Beyond Fukushima: Reconsidering the History of Postwar Japan / バブルのかなた、福島のかなたとは　戦後日本史再考 (2014)
Journal Article
Gerteis, C., & George, T. S. (2014). Beyond the Bubble, Beyond Fukushima: Reconsidering the History of Postwar Japan / バブルのかなた、福島のかなたとは　戦後日本史再考. Japan focus, 12(8.3),

Japan’s spectacular economic growth after 1945 made it a model for its neighbors and even, at the height of its economic dominance and hubris in the 1980s, an exemplar of modern capitalism for business leaders in the Americas, Europe, and Pacific Asi... Read More about Beyond the Bubble, Beyond Fukushima: Reconsidering the History of Postwar Japan / バブルのかなた、福島のかなたとは　戦後日本史再考.

Political Protest in Interwar Japan - 1: Posters and Handbills from the Ohara Collection (1920s-1930s) (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Gerteis, C. Political Protest in Interwar Japan - 1: Posters and Handbills from the Ohara Collection (1920s-1930s). [Web]. Exhibited at Cambridge, Mass. 1 April 2013. (Unpublished)

Commissioned by the MIT Visualizing Cultures Initiative, this digital exhibit and accompanying essay narrate the history of the political struggles of the 1920s and 1930s by examining the visual propaganda -- posters, hand bills, and political cartoo... Read More about Political Protest in Interwar Japan - 1: Posters and Handbills from the Ohara Collection (1920s-1930s).

「衰退してゆく労働組合員一戦後労働運動における階級とジェンダー」[The decline of trade union membership: class and gender in the postwar labor movement] (2013)
Book Chapter
Gerteis, C. (2013). 「衰退してゆく労働組合員一戦後労働運動における階級とジェンダー」[The decline of trade union membership: class and gender in the postwar labor movement]. In サ. フリューシュトゥック, ア. ウォルソール, & ひ. 長野 (Eds.), 日本人の「男らしさ」 -サムライからオタクまで 「男性性」の変遷を追う[Japanese "masculinity" - From samurai to otaku, tracing the evolution of "masculinity"] (130-149). 明石書店 [Akashi Books]

戦後まもなくの数十年間、官民双方の機関によって、ブルーカラーの男性労働者のために社会的な役割が構築された。それは女性の男性への従属と、また一部の男性による他の男性の支配を正当化する、典型的なジェンダーの慣習が再び現われる兆しでもあった。しかし結果とし... Read More about 「衰退してゆく労働組合員一戦後労働運動における階級とジェンダー」[The decline of trade union membership: class and gender in the postwar labor movement].

Marketing History as Social Responsibility (2012)
Book Chapter
Gerteis, C. (2012). Marketing History as Social Responsibility. In C. Gerteis, & T. S. George (Eds.), Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble (223-241). Bloomsbury

This chapter examines the role that historical narrative plays in the public relations agenda of corporate Japan. Executives of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) have been intensely concerned about public perception of the company’s place in history sinc... Read More about Marketing History as Social Responsibility.

Revisiting the History of Postwar Japan (2012)
Book Chapter
Gerteis, C., & George, T. S. (2012). Revisiting the History of Postwar Japan. In C. Gerteis, & T. S. George (Eds.), Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble (1-9, 67). Bloomsbury

Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble (2012)
Book
Gerteis, C., George, T. S., Hein, L. E., Dusinberre, M., Obermiller, D. T., Hastings, S. A., Fujiwara, T., Carlile, L. E., Aronson, B., Takahashi, S., Yano, C., Shimoda, H., & Vlastos, S. (2012). C. Gerteis, & T. S. George (Eds.). Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble. Bloomsbury

The fifteen multidisciplinary essays that comprise this book examine the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan’s postwar and post-industrial trajectories. Unique for their integration of gender, class and ethnicity within four themat... Read More about Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble.

Critical Readings on the History of Industrialization in Modern Japan (3 vols) (2012)
Book
Gerteis, C. (Ed.). (2012). Critical Readings on the History of Industrialization in Modern Japan (3 vols). Brill

The three volumes of this collection (Tokugawa Economy and Society, Meiji Industrialization, and the Twentieth Century) feature essays spanning the past forty years of scholarly discussion of how it was that Japan reached its present status as one of... Read More about Critical Readings on the History of Industrialization in Modern Japan (3 vols).

Losing the Union Man: Gender and Class in the Postwar Labor Movement (2011)
Book Chapter
Gerteis, C. (2011). Losing the Union Man: Gender and Class in the Postwar Labor Movement. In S. Frühstück, & A. Walthall (Eds.), Recreating Japanese Men (135-153). University of California Press

This chapter narrates the generational contest to define working-class masculine identity that emerged during the era of global youth culture and radical political movements that characterized the 1960s and early 1970s. By analyzing the ways in which... Read More about Losing the Union Man: Gender and Class in the Postwar Labor Movement.

Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan (2010)
Book
Gerteis, C. (2010). Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan. Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1x07w27

In the formative years of the Japanese labor movement after World War II, the socialist unions affiliated with the General Council of Trade Unions (the labor federation known colloquially as Sohyo) formally endorsed the principles of women’s equality... Read More about Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan.