Modern History of Japan II
Spring 2018
Syllabus
2018/07/10
Ryoichi Imai
imai.ryoichi.303 ΑΖm.kyushu-u.ac.jp
International Student Center, Kyushu
University
http://japanese-economy.la.coocan.jp/JTWhome.htm
Contents
2. Organization,
Attendance, and Other Requirements
The course is designed to provide some introductory knowledge of Japanese history. This is a continuation of the history course I taught in the previous semester. The course will cover the history of Japan's political and economic system since World War II to the present.
Organization, Attendance, and Other Requirements
Students are expected to buy the text book.
Gordon, Andrew (2008), A Modern History of Japan. Oxford University Press.
Some lecture notes will be uploaded on this website. The course consists mainly of a series of lecture given by the instructor. Later the students present some selected reading materials. Each course attendant is required to make ONE oral presentation in the second half of the course. The presenter must make a set of PowerPoint slides. If too many students take this course, individual presentations will be replaced by group ones. There is ONE final take-home examination.
Those students who need to acquire three credits in accordance with the credit transfer policy of your home university must present twice.
None.
Class Attendance and Discussion 20%
Presentation 40%
Final (Take Home) Examination 40%
You will get 2 credits by satisfying the course requirements specified above.
For the students who need 3 credits in order to transfer credits to your home universities, some adequate arrangements will be announced.
Schedule and Readings (subject to Change)
Lecture
2. Democracy and
Empire between the World Wars
3. The Depression
Crisis and Responses
The Factory
Ship (Takiji Kobayashi) Manga in J
5. Occupied
Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures
6 (5/16). Economic and Social
Transformations
Anti-Discrimination
Initiative by Kikuchi City of Kumamoto Prefecture (J)
7 (5/23) Political
Struggles and the High-Growth Era
8 (5/30). A Lecture on Kabuki@@Kabuki Homepage Hakata-za
9 (6/5). Global Power in
a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980s
10. (6/12). Beyond the
Postwar Era
11. (6/19) continuing
Students' Presentations
Journal Resources:
Journal of Japanese Studies
Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Social Science Japan Journal
Social Science Japan Newsletter
12. (6/26). (Students' Presentation 1)
A:
The Emperor in the Postwar Japan (Dominique, Nathan)
The Status of the Emperor
Letter
from Douglas MacArthur to Prime Minister dated 25 February 1947
Imperial House
of Japan
Japanese
Succession Controversy
Japanese Monarchy: Past and Present (Read
the first half only)
Emperor Akihito
(Japan Times)
Ben Hills (2006) Princess
Masako - Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne
Watch the Showa Emperor in
the Movies!
Emperor (2013)
The Sun (2005) Showa
Emperor speaks English!
Japanfs Longest Day (1967)
B: Domestic Politics
(Mathieu, Timothy, Yarrow)
Asian Survey
Govella, K., and S. Vogel (2008), Japan in 2007: A
Divided Government, Asian Survey 48(1), 97-106.
Inoguchi (2013) Japan in 2012: Voters Swing,
and Swing Away Soon
Inoguchi (2014) Japan in 2013: Abenomics and
Abegeopolitics
Pekkanen and Pekkanen (2015): Japan in 2014: All
about Abe (no longer downloadable in the campus)
Pekkanen and Pekkanen (2016): Japan
in 2015: More about Abe (no longer downloadable in the campus)
Pempel (2017): Japan in 2016
(no longer downloadable in the campus)
13. (7/3) cancelled due to the rainfall disaster
13 & 14. (7/10) Extended to 18:50 (StudentsfPresentation 2)
Debate on Japanfs War Responsibility and Nationalism
C: Territorial Disputes
(Alexander Marend, Kim)
Territory (Japan
Times)
Senkaku Islands
Dispute
Kuril Islands
Dispute
Takeshima
Islands Dispute
Japan-Korea
Disputes
Senkaku Islands
(Japan Times)
Senkaku Video
D: Comfort Women Disputes
(Shelly, Ahn He Jin, Nada)
Open
Letter in Support of Historians in Japan
The
Open Letter
Comfort
Women (Japan Times)
History
Recognition (Japan Times)
The Debate over Japanfs War Responsibility
Japan's History Textbook Debate
The Korean "Comfort Women": Movement
for Redress
Performing Social Reparation: gComfort Womenh And The Path To Political Forgiveness
Channel Sakura
Channel Sakura
on YouTube
THE
FACTS
Focusing in on Contemporary Japanfs eYouthf Nationalism
E: North Korean Abductions
(Tanaka, James)
North Korean Abductions - Official Site by the Japanese
Government
North
Korean abductions of Japanese
BBC News (2008) N
Korea abductions hamper Japan
Christopher Hughes (2009)
"Super-Sizing" the DPRK Threat
14 & 15. (7/17) Extended to 18:50 (Students' Presentation
3)
F: The US-Japan Alliance,
Collective Self-Defense, and Okinawa (Huang Yung Hua, Liu Chang)
Japan Times Constitution
Collective
Self-Defense (Japan Times)
Collective
Self-Defense (Asahi Shimbun)
Fundamental Concepts of
National Defense (Ministry of Defense, Japan)
Richard Armitage and
Joseph Nye (2007) The US-Japan
Alliance
Okinawa (Japan
Times)
Books
on Okinawa - Google
Okinawa Prefecture-
Wikipedia
Shimoji Yoshio: The Futenma Base and the
U.S.-Japan Controversy: an Okinawan perspective
CLOSE THE BASE
G: Why People still
Support the Abe Cabinet? (He Ja Lin, Ya Hsuan)
Japan Times Moritomo
Gakuen
Japan Times Kake Gakuen
Dismal lack of
competition behind Abefs support rates
H. Japanfs Populism
(Dominique, Nathan)
Wikipedia: Toru Hashimoto
Wikipedia: Japan
Restauration Party
Wikipedia: Yuriko Koike
Japan Times Tsukiji
Fish Market
Japan
Times on Olympic
NY Times: Japan
where populism fails
Why
Japan has no Donald Trump
What
shape will populism take in modern Japan?
Tokyofs Koike
takes on old-boy network, but denies run for PM
Final Exam –Take Home
Take-home Final Examination (New! 2018)
Other Readings
Japanese Welfare State
Goesta Esping-Andersen (1997) Hybrid or Unique?: the Japanese Welfare State Between Europe and America
Estevez-Abe et al (2001) Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State
HIWATARI Nobuhiro (2009) Review of Estevez-Abe's "Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan"
MIYAMOTO Taro (2003) Dynamics of the Japanese Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
UZUHASHI Takamitsu (2003) Japanese Model of Welfare State - How was it changed through the Lost Decade of the 1990s?
Charles Weathers (2009), Nonregular Workers and Inequality in Japan
TAKAO Yasuo (2009) Aging and Political Participation in JapanNagai, Akiko (2005), Marriage for Social Recognition and Subsequent Married Life.
Miwa Satoshi (2005), Educational Homogamy in Contemporary Japan.
Mayumi Nakamura (2005), University Education for Marital Status Attainment for Japanese Women.
Social Science Japan Newsletter December 2005, 6-14, Genda, Yuji (2007), Jobless Youths and the NEET Problem in Japan, Social Science Japan Journal, 10(1), 23-40.The Politics of Economic Nationalism in Japan
Morishima, Michio (2000), The Japanese Financial System: Its Solidarity and Vulnerability, in Japan at a Deadlock, Macmillan UK.
Baumol, Litan, and Schramm (2007), Capitalism: The Different Types and Their Impacts on Growth, in Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity., Yale University Press.
Baumol, Litan, and Schramm (2007), Capitalism: The Big-Firm Wealthy Economies: Preventing Retreat and Stagnation, in Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity., Yale University Press.
