Visualizing Japan

Professor John Dower of MIT has created a series of visually-stunning internet presentations on Japanese history, called "Visualizing Cultures."

The presentations use contemporaneous woodblock prints, postcards, and drawings to describe four periods in the history of Japan's interaction with the outside world:

-- Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
-- Boomtown Yokohama - Foreigners in a Treaty Port
-- Throwing Off Asia, Asia Rising, Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril - Japan's Wars with China and Russia
-- Ground Zero 1945 - Survivors Drawings of Hiroshima

The exhibits can be seen at:
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027j/menu/index.html