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Explore the social developments of Japan

HarvardX, MITx, UTokyoX
XSeries Program inVisualizing Japan
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What you will learn

  • Methodologies to "visualize" Japanese history between the 1850s and 1930s
  • An understanding of Westernization, social protest, modernity in Japanese history through digital imagery
  • Strategies for learning — and teaching — history through visual sources
  • Noteworthy factors which promoted the development and change of Tokyo in the postwar period, such as the U.S. occupation and Tokyo Olympic Games
  • The dynamic exchange of gazes in postwar Tokyo from different perspectives

  • Expert instruction
    3 high-quality courses
  • Self-paced
    Progress at your own speed
  • 5 months
    2 - 4 hours per week
  • $182.00 USD
    For the full program experience

Courses in this program

VJx's Visualizing Japan XSeries Program

Meet your instructors
from HarvardX, MITx, UTokyoX (VJx)

Shunya Yoshimi
John W. Dower
Andrew Gordon
Shigeru Miyagawa
Gennifer Weisenfeld
Shunya Yoshimi
Shunya Yoshimi

Professor of Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies

The University of Tokyo

John W. Dower
John W. Dower

Professor Emeritus

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Andrew Gordon
Andrew Gordon

The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History

Harvard University

Shigeru Miyagawa
Shigeru Miyagawa

Professor of Linguistics and Kochi-Majiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gennifer Weisenfeld
Gennifer Weisenfeld

Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Duke University

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