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About the Author

GregPphoto Gregory M. Pflugfelder is an Associate Professor of Japanese History at Columbia University. He teaches in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and is a faculty member of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. His book-length publications include Seiji to daidokoro: Akita-ken joshi sanseiken undōshi (Politics and the kitchen: A history of the women’s suffrage movement in Akita Prefecture [in Japanese], 1986), Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950 (1999), JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life (coedited with Brett L. Walker, 2005), and Pictures and Things: Bridging Visual and Material Culture in Japan (special issue of Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America, coedited with Jordan Sand, 2009).

Table of Contents

Module 1. REMEMBERING UNCOOL JAPAN: A Personal History

Module 2. A KING IS BORN: Godzilla’s Multiple Origins

Module 3. GODZILLA CONQUERS THE GLOBE (under construction)

Module 4. DINOSAURS, DRAGONS & CREATURES OF THE DEEP (forthcoming in late 2015)

Module 5. ATOMIC DEMONS (under construction)

Module 6. JAPAN’S SECRET SPACE RACE (under construction)

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