Primary Sources & Official Documents

Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. 2015. "Nomination Dossier: Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining." Submitted to UNESCO World Heritage Centre. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1484/documents/ Open Access

ICOMOS. 2021. "Advisory Mission Report: Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (Japan)." Paris: ICOMOS. https://whc.unesco.org/en/soc/4085/ Open Access

UNESCO World Heritage Committee. 2015. "Decision 39 COM 8B.14: Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (Japan)." Bonn, Germany. https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/6364 Open Access

UNESCO World Heritage Committee. 2021. "Decision 44 COM 7B.73: Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (Japan)." Fuzhou, China (online session). https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/8105/ Open Access

UNESCO World Heritage Committee. 2023. "Decision 45 COM 7B.55: Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (Japan)." Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/8291/ Open Access

Heritage Studies & Memory Theory

Lim, Jie-Hyun. 2022. Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing. New York: Columbia University Press. Institutional

Lowenthal, David. 1998. The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Institutional

Macdonald, Sharon. 2009. Difficult Heritage: Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond. London: Routledge. Institutional

Schwartz, Joan M., and Terry Cook. 2002. "Archives, Records, and Power: The Making of Modern Memory." Archival Science 2 (1–2): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02435628 Institutional

Smith, Laurajane. 2006. Uses of Heritage. London: Routledge. Institutional

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 1995. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press. Institutional

Tunbridge, John E., and Gregory J. Ashworth. 1996. Dissonant Heritage: The Management of the Past as a Resource in Conflict. Chichester: Wiley. Institutional

Hashima & Japanese Industrial Heritage

Gerteis, Christopher. 2024. "Selective Memory and Strategic Forgetting: Japan's Industrial Heritage Tourism." Japanese Modernity (Substack), September 2024. https://japanesemodernity.substack.com/p/selective-memory-and-strategic-forgetting Open Access

Gerteis, Christopher, and Bill Mihalopoulos. 2025. "Why the Island Is Silent." Past Meets Pixel (Substack), May 2025. https://pastmeetspixel.substack.com/p/why-the-island-is-silent Open Access

Johnsen, Nikolai. 2021a. "Katō Kōko's Meiji Industrial Revolution — Forgetting Forced Labor to Celebrate Japan's World Heritage Sites – Part 1." The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 19 (23). https://apjjf.org/2021/23/johnsen Open Access

Johnsen, Nikolai. 2021b. "Katō Kōko and Japan's Industrial Heritage Information Centre — Part 2." The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 19 (24). https://apjjf.org/2021/24/johnsen Open Access

Historical Games & Digital Heritage

Bogost, Ian. 2007. Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Institutional

Chapman, Adam, Anna Foka, and Jonathan Westin. 2017. "Introduction: What Is Historical Game Studies?" Rethinking History 21 (3): 358–371. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2016.1256638 Institutional

Clulow, Adam. 2024. "Ghost of Tsushima and the Politics of Historical Authenticity." Journal of Japanese Studies 50 (1): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2024.a916123 Institutional

Gerteis, Christopher. 2024. "Exploring the Potential and Challenges of Historical Video Games." Past Meets Pixel (Substack), April 2024. https://pastmeetspixel.substack.com/p/exploring-the-potential-and-challenges Open Access

Gerteis, Christopher. 2025a. "Against Authenticity." Past Meets Pixel (Substack), January 2025. https://pastmeetspixel.substack.com/p/research-note-5-against-authenticity Open Access

Gerteis, Christopher. 2025b. "Simulating the Past: AI, Procedural Rhetoric, and the Historian as Game Designer." Past Meets Pixel (Substack), March 2025. https://pastmeetspixel.substack.com/p/simulating-the-past-ai-procedural Open Access

Montefiore, Philip, and Paul Formosa. 2025. "Dark Patterns Meet the Gamer's Dilemma: Contrasting Morally Objectionable Content with Systems in Video Games." Games and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120241306574 Institutional

Wright, Esther. 2022. "Still Playing with the Past: History, Historians, and Digital Games." History and Theory 61 (4): 166–177. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12282 Institutional

Audio Sources

Malm, William P. (collector and annotator). 1961. Traditional Folk Songs of Japan. Folkways Records FW 8851. Smithsonian Folkways. https://folkways.si.edu/traditional-folk-songs-of-japan/world/album/smithsonian Open Access