Research Interests for Simon C Partner

Late 19th and 20th-century Japanese history Focusing on: growth of consumer markets; technology and social changes; Japanese rural society

Representative Publications

1. Toshie: A Story of Rural Life in Twentieth Century Japan (2004), University of California Press [102-1008339-5256135] [abs]
2. Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (1999), Berkeley: University of California Press (292 pages.) [102-1008339-5256135] [abs]
3. Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Twentieth Century Japan, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 56 no. 4 (December, 2001)
4. Brightening Country Lives: Selling Electrical Goods in the Japanese Countryside, Enterprise And Society, vol. 1 no. 4 (December, 2000)
5. John Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 55 no. 1 (March, 2000)
6. Ian Inkster and Kumihiko Satofuka, eds., Culture and Technology in Modern Japan, edited by Ian Inkster and Fumihiko Satofuka, Waseda Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 22 (2000)