Students’ Presentation
Modern History of Japan II
2026/06/11
Make a presentation slide in a popular presentation format and present it in the class. You are expected to speak for 20 minutes about the issue to which you are assigned.
1 Convert your file to a PDF format (.pdf).
2 Name the file as < LAST-First-Course title> like <YAMADA-Taro-History>
3 Upload your pdf file to my JTW-history folder at the file sharing system of the Kyushu University before your presentation. No late submission will be accepted.
4 Do not send your work by e-mail. Do not bring it to my office in a USB memory. Thank you for your cooperation.
July 7: A (Adam, Maxim, Haoyong), B (Dan, Ben) ,
C (Wong, Chan Chi Wai)
July 14: D (Ken, Mounir, Marley), E (Ethan), F
(Rotem, Tslil)
July 21: G (Guan Jung, Piero), H (Valentin), I
(Azra, Melissa, Menna)
A: The Emperor in the Postwar Japan
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,…)
The Status of the Emperor
Imperial House
of Japan
Japanese
imperial succession debate
Emperor Akihito
(Japan Times)
Emperor
Naruhito (Japan Times)
B: Marriages
of the Imperial Family
1. What is the
problem about Empress
Masako?
2. Explain why it
is difficult to find the next empress?
3. Review the
process of the marriage of Princess
Mako and the reaction of society on it.
Ben Hills
(2006) Princess Masako - Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne
C: Foreigners
in Japan (Zyad, Erwan):
Review the current trends of the immigrants and foreign visitors in Japan. Do
Japanese people welcome them or not? Why does Japan need foreigners in Japan?
Revies the three major issues related the foreigners in Japan
1. Overtourism
2. excessive
support for foreign students
3. Conflicts
between immigrants and local citizens (examples?)
4.
acquisition of real estate in large urban areas
and the popular tourist spots.
D. Japan –Russia Relationship
Kuril Islands
Dispute
Q1. Review the Japan-Russia relations in the past.
Q2. Review the benefits and costs to improve the Japan-Russia relationship/
E. Japan-China
Relationship
Senkaku Islands
Dispute Senkaku Video
Q1. Review Japan-China Relations. Review China’s strategy toward Japan
under the increasing tension with USA
Q2. Does the Takaichi cabinet worsen the Japan-China relationship?
Q3. Is there any way to improve Japan-China relations without hurting Japan's
pride?
F. Japan-South
Korea Relations
1. Review
Japan-South Korea Relations
2. Review the
Comfort Women Controversies
3. Review the
wartime labor problem
4. Review the
Kidnapping of Kim Dae-Jung (Who did it? How Korea’s government handled
it?)
5. Review the abductions
of Japanese Citizens by the North Korea
6. Discuss the
international backgrounds behind the latest improvement of the Japan-South
Korea relationship.
Kidnapping of
Kim Dae Jung (Wikipedia)
North
Korean abductions of Japanese
Official Site by the Japanese
Government
BBC News (2008) N
Korea abductions hamper Japan
G. Domestic Politics – LDP
Review the current
conservative government of Japan. Why do Japanese people support them?
Shinzo Abe Yoshihide Suga Fumio Kishida Ishiba Shigeru Takaichi Sanae
Politics of Japan
Asssination of
Shinzo Abe
H. Domestic Politics –
Opposition Parties
Review the recent
development of the opposition parties in Japan. Why have they failed in
acquiring the support by the majority people?
Democratic Party
of Japan
Constitutional
Democratic Party of Japan
Democratic
Party for the People
Toru Hashimoto Hirofumi Yoshimura Japan Restauration
Party
Yuriko Koike
Yamamoto Taro Reiwa Shinsengumi
Ishimaru Shinji