Week 1 Two Nobel acceptance prize speechs
Kawabata Yasunari, "Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself"
Ōe Kenzaburō, "Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself".
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Week
2
Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Kyûhanjô."
Tetsuo Najita, "The Meiji Quest for Constitutional
and Ideological Certitude."
Week
3
Charter
Oath & Rescript on Education
Fukuzawa Yukichi, Encouragement of Learning
Carol Gluck, Japan's Modern Myths, 73-101,
102-156 (pt 1; pt. 2;
pt. 3).
Week 5
Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Goodbye Asia"
Week 6
Jordan Sand, "At Home in the Meiji Period"
Week 7
Nagai
Kafu, "A
Strange Tale from East of the River"
Week 8
(opt.) Irokawa, "The Emperor and the People"
& "The Symbolic Emperor"
from The Age of Hirohito
Week 9
"Murayama expresses apology"
Field, "The Devastating Absence of Surprise"
Week 10
Shiroyama Saburo, "Made in Japan"
Week 14
David Pollack, "Revenge of the Illegal Asians"
David Pollack, "Revenge of the Illegal Asians"
Week 15
Ikeda Riyoko, The Rose of Versailles
Hayashi Rumiko, Ranma 1/2, pt. 1, pt. 2, pt. 3
Frank Schott, Manga, Manga, 12-27, 88-105