#  City of Commuters: Work and Mobility in Tokyo, 1890-1973 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 10, 2025** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St. and online via Zoom (registration required).**  



 

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Speaker: [Brian Rogers (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University)](/people/brian-rogers "Brian Rogers")

Moderator: [Ian Miller (Reischauer Institute Professor of Environmental History, Harvard University)](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/ian-miller)

*Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.*

**Additional resources:**

1. Waley, Paul. 2009. ["Distinctive patterns of industrial urbanisation in modern Tokyo, c. 1880–1930,"](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2009.04.004) *Journal of Historical Geography.*
2. Schimkowsky, Christoph. 2025. ["Towards a history of transit etiquette: the development of orderly boarding practices in Tokyo,"](https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2024.2348654) *Mobilities.*



 

 



 

 

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