Lecture Outlines

  1. Intro: Approaches to the Modern in Japan
  2. Order Out of Chaos (9/6) 
  3. Internal Regulation (9/9)
  4. Internal Threats (9/11)
  5. External Threats (9/13)
  6. Responses to Internal Threats (9/16)
  7. Responses to External Threats (9/18)
  8. Plotting the Meiji Restoration (9/23)
  9. Shaping a Modern State (9/25)
  10. Nationalism/Kokutai (9/30)
  11. The Bureaucratization of Spirit(s) (10/4)
  12. Enrich the Nation, Bleed the People (10/7-9)
  13. Japan in the World (10/16)
  14. Foundations of Imperialism (10/18)
  15. Democracy in Eye of Beholder (10/21)
  16. Good Wives/Wise Mothers/Riot Grrls (10/23)
  17. The Roaring Twenties (10/28)
  18. Culture Wars: Born Again Japanese (11/4-6)
  19. Colonialism & Conflict (week of 11/11)
  20. War Experience & Memory (12/2)
  21. In an American Lake (12/4)

Documents

  1. Electronic Readings (ER) List
  2. Seiyô ishokujû (9/27)
  3. The Nature of Nationalism (9/30)
  4. Political Structure of Imperial Japan (10/2)
  5. Tanizaki et al. on Tokyo & moga (10/28)
  6. Imperial Rescript on End of War (12/2)

Discussion Guides

  1. Japanese pronounciation
  2. What to do about those barbarians? (9/20)
  3. Pitching democracy (10/25)
  4. Will the real Japan please stand up? (11/1)
  5. Study questions for War Without Mercy

Exam Guides

  1. Midterm (10/14)
  2. Endterm (TBA)

Historical Production Guides

  1. Producing a (Hi)story
  2. Dare desu ka (Who is it?)