Modern History of Japan II
Spring 2019
Syllabus
2019/07/16
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.
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.
If you need to acquire three credits in accordance with the credit transfer policy of your home university, you can get three credits by making a second presentation in different topics in addition to the requirements as above.
Schedule and Readings (subject to Change)
Lecture
1 (4/9). Economy and Society
2 (4/16). Democracy and
Empire between the World Wars
3 (4/23). The Depression
Crisis and Responses
The Factory
Ship (Takiji Kobayashi) Manga in J
4. (5/7). No Class
5 (5/14) Japan in Wartime
6 (5/21). Occupied
Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures
7 (5/28). A Lecture on Kabuki@@Kabuki Homepage Hakata-za
(6/3 Monday)
Kabuki Tour
8 (6/4) Economic and Social
Transformations
Anti-Discrimination
Initiative by Kikuchi City of Kumamoto Prefecture (J)
9 (6/11). Political
Struggles and the High-Growth Era
10 (6/18). Global Power in
a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980s
11. (6/25). 1640-1900 Beyond the
Postwar Era@
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 & 13@ & 14 1640-19:00 Students' Presentation (# of presenters)
Each presenter is supposed to speak for 30 minutes, by
showing a set of presentation slides.
Presentation slides (PDF) must be submitted to me after each
presentation.
July 2 Emperor (Hyoguen), Marriage (Sos, Farah), Russia
(Avronia), Hong Kong (Connie),
July 9 China (Devin), Comfort Women (Jasmin), Abduction (KDJ,
North Korea), Collective Self Defense (Elisenda),
July 16 Okinawa (Aaron), Democratic Party (Smeds), Abe
(Dana). Populists (Adrien)
A: The Emperor
in the Postwar Japan
Task:
1.
Review the Succession Controversy
2.
What is the difference between the female emperor,
female-line emperor, and empress?
3.
Review the succession rules of European monarchs (UK, Dutch,
Denmark,c)
The Status of the Emperor
Letter
from Douglas MacArthur to Prime Minister dated 25 February 1947
Imperial House
of Japan
Japanese
Succession Controversy
Emperor Akihito
(Japan Times)
Emperor
Naruhito (Japan Times)
B:
Marriages of the Imperial Family
Task:
1.
What is the problem about Empress Masako?
2.
Explain why it is difficult to find the next empress?
3.
Review the problem with the marriage of Princess Mako.
Ben Hills (2006) Princess
Masako - Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne
C: Japan –Russia Relationship
Task:
1.
Review the problem.
2.
Why did the latest effort by PM Abe fail?
Territory (Japan
Times)
Kuril Islands
Dispute
D: Hong Kong Special
(Connie)
E. Japan –China Relationship
(1)
Task
1.
Review the Senkaku Islands Dispute
2.
Explore the Chinafs strategy toward Japan under the
increasing tension with USA?
Senkaku Islands (Japan
Times)
Senkaku Video
F. Comfort Women
Controversy (Korea and China) (1)
Task
1.
Review the Comfort Women Controversies
2.
Review the Kidnapping of Kim Dae-Jung (Who did it? How Koreafs government
handled it?)
Takeshima Islands
Dispute
Japan-Korea
Disputes
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
G: Abductions of Citizens
(North Korean, Kim Dae Jung)
Task: Review the 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
H: The US-Japan Alliance,
Collective Self-Defense (1)
Task
1. What
is the reinterpretation of collective self-defense?
2. Why
is it necessary?
3. How
does it contradict to the constitution?
2015
Japanese military legislation
Japan Times Constitution
Collective
Self-Defense (Japan Times)
Fundamental Concepts of
National Defense (Ministry of Defense, Japan)
I: Okinawa (1)
Task:
1. Why
are Okinawa people so angry?
2.
Why PM Hatoyamafs relocation effort failed?
Relocation
of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma
Okinawa (Japan
Times)
Okinawa Prefecture-
Wikipedia
Shimoji Yoshio: The Futenma Base and the
U.S.-Japan Controversy: an Okinawan perspective
J: Domestic Politics 1
Task: Review the
Democratic Party Government (2009-2012)
1.
Evaluate the crisis control by the Kan Cabinet to handle the
Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents in 2011
2.
What is the Comprehensive Reform of Tax and Social Security
of the Noda Cabinet?
3.
Why is Ozawa considered to be responsible for the failure of
the DPJ government?
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
Ichiro Ozawa
Japan in 20**, Asian Survey
(2009-2013)
K: Domestic Politics 2 (1)
Task: Review the Abe
cabinet (2013-Now). Why People still Support the Abe Cabinet? ()
Inoguchi (2014) Japan in 2013: Abenomics and Abegeopolitics
Pekkanen and Pekkanen
(2015): Japan in
2014: All about Abe
Editions up to 2015 are
available in Asian Survey
on JSTOR
Editions for 2016-2018 are
not downloadable.
Only the latest one is
available.
Japan in 2018
(Downloadable now!)
Japan Times Moritomo
Gakuen
Japan Times Kake Gakuen
L. Domestic Politics 3 (1)
Task: Review Japanfs 3 Populist
leaders (Hashimoto, Koike, Yamamoto)
Wikipedia: Toru Hashimoto
Wikipedia: Japan
Restauration Party
Wikipedia: Yuriko Koike
Wikipedia: Yamamoto Taro
NY Times: Japan
where populism fails
Why
Japan has no Donald Trump
What
shape will populism take in modern Japan?
15 (7/13). Final Exam
Take-home Final Examination (New 2019)
Course Evaluation
Click and follow the
instructions History
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.
