"Crossing the Divide" was an exhibit at the Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland in 2019. It displayed archival material that documented Japanese and American life in Japan during the postwar US Occupation.

1. Bustling city street in Ginza, Tokyo, Atarashii Ginza [New Ginza], 1948

2. “The American is batting! Hey, get back in right field, left field, and center
field!”, Amerika no Heitai-san [American Servicemen], 1946

3. What is Served in an American Family:
Cooking Guide for Japanese Homemakers,
1948

4. Kodomo to Kagaku [Children and
Science], February 1949.
The back cover of this children’s
magazine entitled, “Children and
Science,” featured a variety of
American electronic appliances,
such as a toaster and a vacuum
cleaner, which were rare in
Japanese households at the time.

5. Burondī [Blondie], 1947
Blondie, an American comic strip created by the cartoonist Chic Young, was first published in September 1930
in the United States. It depicted the life of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead and their American middle-class
life in the suburbs of Joplin, Missouri. Shūkan Asahi, a popular Japanese weekly magazine, began serializing
the strip in 1946. It was picked up by Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s major daily newspapers, in January 1949.

6. An advertisement for the Exposition of Modern Interior
Decoration at the Mitsukoshi Department Store in Tokyo, July
21 - August 5, 1948.
“By manufacturing furniture for U.S. military family houses, we will learn foreign
lifestyles and contribute to the internationalization of Japanese industrial arts.”
Nobuharu Saitō, Director, National Research Institute of Industrial Arts
Kōgei Nyūsu [Industrial Arts News], October 1946