COURSE DESCRIPTION. HST252: Development of Japanese Civilization 2. Instructor: Sven Saaler

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1 HST252: Development of Japanese Civilization 2 Instructor: Sven Saaler (saaler@sophia.ac.jp) COURSE DESCRIPTION The primary purpose of this course is to provide you 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 characterize 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 is in diverse ways shaped by its historical experience. Lastly, this course is intended to impart some notion of what historiography as an intellectual discipline is. We ask questions about the past that are inseparable from our present personal, social, cultural and political experiences. It is our individual interest that leads this dialog with the past and that makes history a multi-dimensional and contested endeavor. Course Materials: As the basic textbook we will use James L. McClain: Japan. A Modern History. New York and London: W.W. Norton, Additional readings (sources and articles) will be made available on Moodle. For each class, the instructor additionally has listed, next to the required readings, online accessible visual and primary sources such as the homepage of an important history museum, a documentary movie or an online archive/collection of historical sources. These sources are not going to be used in class (two exceptions are marked in bold in the schedule below), but students are strongly encouraged to explore these resources as a part of their preparation for classes. Student Evaluation: Students grades will be determined by a midterm and a final test, class participation, and writing assignments. The grade distribution is as follows: Midterm test: 30% (essay) Final test: 30% (essay) (three) writing assignments: 30% Class participation and quizzes (short essays): 10% Missed Tests or Deadlines: Unless there is a valid, documented medical reason, students who miss an exam will receive a zero for this part of their grade. Class Participation: No credit will be given for class attendance. However, you can improve your grade by actively participating in class. 1

2 Schedule and Readings Class Content Required readings Additional sources 1 Course introduction and overview None 2 Course introduction and overview None Biographies of Japanese historical figures at National Diet Library 1 3 The Tokugawa Shogunate and the McClain, ch. 1 Tokugawa Museum bakuhan system in Mito The seclusion policy (sakoku) Toby, pp Dejima 5 The Meiji Restoration I McClain, ch. 4; de Yokohama Archives Bary, of History 4 6 The Meiji Restoration II Smith Bakumatsu and Meiji Museum 5 7 Political centralization and resistance, Modernization, Industrialization and Westernization 9 Foreign relations in the early Meiji Period McClain, ch. 5 (pp ); Buck; de Bary, McClain, ch. 5 (pp ); de Bary, McClain, ch. 9 (pp ); Mayo; de Bary, McClain, ch. 6; Huffmann; de Bary, 58-64; All the countries of the world, for children written in 6 verse Reports from the Iwakura Mission Political opposition and the Imperial Kochi Liberty and Constitution People s Rights Museum 8 11 The Japanese colonial empire I McClain, ch. 9 Visualizing the R-J War (MIT site with annotated primary visual sources) 9 12 The Japanese colonial empire II McClain, ch. 10, pp. Old Photos from colonial Seoul 13 Parties and oligarchs: The McClain, ch. 10 (pp. Imagining Meiji 11 system ) (MIT site with annotated primary visual sources) 14 Course review video The Pacific 12 Century 15 Midterm Test 16 Taishō Japan: Taishô Democracy McClain, ch. 10 and Meiji and Taisho in and Cooperative Foreign Policy 11 (pp and Photographs ); de Bary, (National Diet Library Archive) Japan s Empire between the wars: Old Photos of Meiji- World War I, Siberia, Washington Taisho Japan 14 McClain, ch. 10 (pp ; ); de Bary, ; ;

3 18 The outbreak of war (1931) and the foundation of Manchukuo (1932) 19 National Emergency and the rise of militarism in the early 1930s I 20 National Emergency and the rise of militarism in the early 1930s II 21 Japan and China: Revolution and Modernization, National Independence, Asian Brotherhood and Colonialism 22 The Asia-Pacific War ( ) and defeat 23 War legacies: The history textbook controversy and the Yasukuni Shrine 24 The occupation period and the Long Postwar 25 Economic recovery and high economic growth McClain, ch. 13; de Bary, McClain, ch. 12; de Bary, Shillony; de Bary, Saaler; de Bary, ; McClain, ch. 14; de Bary, Seraphim, pp. 1-31; Breen McClain, ch. 15; de Bary, McClain, ch. 16; de Bary, ; Japan since the 1980s McClain, ch. 17; Kingston, ch Course review all 28 Final test all War and Media (collection of primary visual sources in the University of Tokyo) 15 Modern Japan in Archives: Crisis of Constitutionalism (annotated primary sources on the National Diet Library HP) 16 Modern Japan in Archives: Crisis of Constitutionalism (dto.) video The Pacific 17 Century 18 Kamikaze images ; video Wings of Defeat 19 Yasukuni Shrine HP including primary sources on war legacy issues 20 ; video Spirits of the State by John Nelson 21 Birth of the Japanese Constitution (annotated primary sources on the National Diet Library HP) 22 video of Anpo 23 Disturbances video In the Name 24 of the Emperor 3

4 Readings Bailey, Jackson H. (1962): Prince Saionji and the Taishô Political Crisis, , in: Studies on Asia, pp. 39ff. Breen, John (2005): Yasukuni Shrine: Ritual and Memory. Internet: De Bary, Wm. Theodore et al. (comp.) (2006): Sources of Japanese Tradition: 1600 to New York: Columbia University Press (Second Edition). Buck, James H. (1973): The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877, in: Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 28, No. 4, pp Duus, Peter (1998): Modern Japan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fujitani, Takashi (1996): Splendid Monarchy. University of California Press. Huffman, J. L. (1984): Freedom and the press in Meiji-Taishô Japan, in: Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (3rd series) 19, pp Kingston, Jeffrey (2004): Japan s Quiet Transformation. Social change and civil society in the twenty-first century. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. Marlene J. Mayo (1972): The Korean Crises of 1873 and early Meiji foreign policy. In: Journal of Asian Studies 31/1972, pp McClain, James L. (2002): Japan. A Modern History. New York: W.W. Norton. Saaler, Sven (2007): Pan-Asianism in modern Japanese history. Overcoming the nation, creating a region, forging an Empire. In: Sven Saaler and J. Victor Koschmann (eds): Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History. London and New York: Routledge, pp Seraphim, Franziska (2006): War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Asia Center/Harvard University Press. Shillony, Ben-Ami (1976): Wartime Japan. A Military Dictatorship? In: Schiffrin, Harold (ed.): Military and State in Modern Asia. Jerusalem: Jerusalem University Press, pp Smith, Thomas C. (1961): Japan s Aristocratic Revolution. In: The Yale Review 50, 3, pp Toby, Ronald (1991): State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan. Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 4

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