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

Poster for 11/10 seminar

Date and Time

November 10, 2025
12:00PM - 01:00PM EST

Location

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St. and online via Zoom (registration required).
Click here to register for Zoom.

 

Speaker: Brian Rogers (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University)

Moderator: Ian Miller (Reischauer Institute Professor of Environmental History, Harvard University)

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," Journal of Historical Geography.
  2. Schimkowsky, Christoph. 2025. "Towards a history of transit etiquette: the development of orderly boarding practices in Tokyo," Mobilities.

 

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