About the Speaker

Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Language and Cultures, Department of History and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.

Slides for Classroom Use

Top Ten Things to Know about Japan in the Early 21st Century – PowerPoint [4 MB]

Background Reading and Classroom Material

Timeline of Japanese History [AFE]

Central Themes for a Unit on Japan [AFE]

Primary Sources with DBQ on Japan [AFE]

Asia by Era Resources – Japan in the 21st C. [AFE]

An Interpretive History of Japan [SPICE/Stanford]
Six video lectures by Professor Emeritus Daniel Okimoto from Stanford University and six corresponding lesson plans. 2012.

Elementary Resources on Japan [AFE]

Political and Cultural Identity in Postwar Japan [Primary Source]
Lesson plans with background on Article 9 and on U.S.-Japan relations on Okinawa.