DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE CIVILIZATION 2*

概要

Survey course of modern Japanese history from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s.

目標

The primary purpose of this course is to provide the students with a survey of modern Japanese history. Our main goal is to see how Japan evolved as a modern nation-state since the mid-19th century and to gain insights into major patterns and themes that characterized the development of modern Japan and Japan’s rise to a regional and global power. Furthermore, this survey of Japan’s modern history shall enable you to bring a more discerning eye to your understanding of contemporary Japan, which cannot be understood without knowledge of its historical experience. Lastly, this course is intended to impart some notion of what history as an intellectual discipline is. We ask questions about the past that are inseparable from our present personal, social, cultural, political and professional experiences. It is our individual interests that lead this dialog with the past and that make history a multi-dimensional and contested endeavor.

授業外の学習

Required readings as given in the detailed syllabus available on Moodle (120 mins per week); class review and preparation for quizzes, tests, and exams (70 mins). If you miss the first class, it is your responsibility to confirm the contents of the syllabus including requirements and dates of tests. For each class, the instructor additionally has listed, next to the required readings, online accessible visual and primary sources such as the homepage of important history museums, documentary movies and online archives/collections of historical sources. These sources are not going to be used in class (two exceptions are marked in bold), but students are strongly encouraged to explore these resources as a part of their preparation for classes.

所要時間: 190 minutes