Welcome to the CONSIMWORLD Social Website, Jeffrey!  You picked some great games to start with; Kim Kanger does great work.  I teach joint operations to U.S. Army majors but our military history professor and I also teach an elective that blends military history and wargaming together and the students seem to love it.  Since you teach Asian history, you might also be interested in GMT's SEKIGAHARA, which is a lot of fun to play and captures the spirit of warfare in that period relatively well.  I used to be more into Japanese than I am now, but enjoyed Japanese fiction years ago and still love Kurosawa movies!