I was going to review the website recommended by Dr. Noriko Aso. It is built by a group of academics specializing in East Asian art history (providing in-depth discussions of select topics focusing on modern China and especially Japan). https://bodiesandstructures.org/bodies-and-structures-2/about

I liked Noriko’s module on Mitsukoshi stores and especially the part on interwar imperialism. I got a sense that their patriotic fare was just a reflection of the management’s genuine support for Japan’s victories and expansion. https://bodiesandstructures.org/bodies-and-structures-2/mitsukoshis-expansion-before-1945?path=mitsukoshi-and-empire

I think it may be too in-depth for a lower-level world history survey but I could use it in my History of Asia course (upper-level undergraduate level) in conjunction with a chapter form another resource recommended for that session in our East Asia since 1800 to discuss how “Western” interwar Japanese consumerism was – The Culture of Japanese Fascism collection edited by Allan Tansman (2009). The website could be related to a discussion of how interwar and postwar consumerism could be compared. I would have students watch a few images from Noriko’s website and a short scene from Akira Kurosawa’s “Drunken Angel” (1948) featuring various aspects of Tokyo’s underworld.