<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Dear Friends and Colleagues<br>
（Please circulate this announcement to your friends<br>
and students.)<br>
<br>
I am Shunya Yoshimi from the University of Tokyo.<br>
Please excuse me for contacting you suddenly.<br>
<br>
This autumn, my courses, "Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 1 & 2"<br>
will be released on edX, a massive open online course (MOOC)<br>
platform where the University of Tokyo recently joined.<br>
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Visualing Postwar Tokyo Course Websites:<br>
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<a href="https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo001x-visualizing-postwar-1545" target="_blank">https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo001x-visualizing-postwar-1545</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo002x-visualizing-postwar-1546" target="_blank">https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo002x-visualizing-postwar-1546</a><br>
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These courses are in the series, Visualizing Japan, and will be offered<br>
immediately after the first course in the series,<br>
Visualizing Japan (1850s - 1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity,<br>
by Professors John W. Dower (MIT) and Andrew Gordon (Harvard U).<br>
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In the "Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 1 and 2" which last 8 weeks<br>
in total, I tried to show many documentary films and other<br>
insightful/exciting visual materials for visualizing the<br>
historical events and places in Tokyo. Many of them are not<br>
available outside Japan, and I believe these courses are<br>
useful for teaching and understanding contemporary Japan and Tokyo.<br>
<br>
I would really appreciate it if you could circulate the course<br>
information and recommend people around you to register in these courses.<br>
They are free of charge.<br>
<br>
Thank you very much for your help in advance.<br>
<br>
With My Best Regards,<br>
Shunya Yoshimi<br>
The University of Tokyo<br>
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<br>
Details are as follows:<br>
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★★★ Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 1 ★★★<br>
by Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo<br>
<br>
【Starts November 4, 2014】<br>
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Analyzes the history of change and development<br>
in postwar Tokyo from different perspectives using<br>
archived photographs, films, and TV programs.<br>
The modules include, for Part 1:<br>
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1. Occupation and Americanism;<br>
2. Imperial Gaze and Royal Wedding;<br>
3. The Olympic City;<br>
4. Economic-cultural Clash in Shinjuku.<br>
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<a href="https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo001x-visualizing-postwar-1545" target="_blank">https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo001x-visualizing-postwar-1545</a><br>
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<br>
★★★ Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 2 ★★★<br>
by Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo<br>
<br>
【Starts January 6, 2015】<br>
<br>
Presents the city as a place of visualities. In postwar<br>
Tokyo, countless gazes fell upon others: gazes from<br>
and upon Americans and the Emperor, gazes going<br>
up skyscrapers or rushing aggressively through the<br>
cityscape, and gazes twining among classes, genders,<br>
and ethnic groups in downtown Tokyo.<br>
The modules include, for Part 2:<br>
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5. Technologies for Visualizing;<br>
6. The Poor and the Margins of Urban Society;<br>
7. University Students and Knowledge Industry;<br>
8. Postwar Tokyo and the Limits of Visualization.<br>
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<a href="https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo002x-visualizing-postwar-1546" target="_blank">https://www.edx.org/course/utokyox/utokyox-utokyo002x-visualizing-postwar-1546</a><br>
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<br>
★★★ Visualizing Japan (1850s-1930s):<br>
Westernization, Protest, Modernity ★★★<br>
<br>
by John Dower, Andrew Gordon, Shigeru<br>
Miyagawa, Gennifer Weisenfeld<br>
<br>
【Starts September 3, 2014】<br>
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A first-time MITx/HarvardX collaboration, VJx opens<br>
windows on Japan’s transition into the modern world<br>
through the historical visual record. The modules cover:<br>
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Use of visual records as primary sources for the study<br>
of history; Black Ships & Samurai -- Commodore Matthew<br>
Perry's 1853-54 expedition to force Japan to open its<br>
doors to the outside world;<br>
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Social Protest in Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905.<br>
The first major social protest in the age of "imperial<br>
democracy" in Japan.<br>
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Modernity in Interwar Japan: Shiseido & Consumer Culture.<br>
Exploring the vast archives of the Shiseido cosmetics company<br>
opens a fascinating window on the emergence of consumer<br>
culture, modern roles for women, andglobal cosmopolitanism.<br>
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<a href="https://www.edx.org/course/VJx/vjx-visualizing-japan-2331" target="_blank">https://www.edx.org/course/VJx/vjx-visualizing-japan-2331</a><br>
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--<br>
Shunya Yoshimi<br>
<a href="mailto:yoshimi@iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp">yoshimi@iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp</a><br>
Professor<br>
Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies<br>
University of Tokyo<br>
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