EALC E350
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Intro: Framing the Question    8.28-30


 

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Kawabata Yasunari, "Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself"
Ōe Kenzaburō, "Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself"
1. The Meiji Revolution     9.4-6
Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Kyūhanjō"
Mikiso Hane, Reflections on the Way to the Gallows, 1-50
Tetsuo Najita, Intellectual Foundations of Modern Japanese Politics, 69-101
2. Forging a Nation    9.11-13
Imperial Rescript on Education & Charter Oath
Fukuzawa, Encouragement of Learning
Carol Gluck, Japan’s Modern Myths, 73-156
3. The Statist Solution    9.18-20
Irokawa Daikichi, The Culture of the Meiji Period, 245-311
Ienaga Saburō, The Pacific War, 13-54
4. "East" and "West"   9.25-27
Natsume Sōseki, And Then
Fukuzawa, "Goodbye Asia"
5. Meiji Domesticity and its Limits     10.2-4
Jordan Sand, "At Home in the Meiji Period"
Hane, Reflections, 51-124, 175-212
6. Being Modern in Japan    10.9-16 (no class 10.11)
Nagai Kafu, “A Strange Tale from East of the River”
Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Naomi, 3-103, 213-37
7. Emperor Systems   10.18
Carol Gluck, "The Past in the Present," in Andrew Gordon, ed., Postwar Japan as History, 64-95
(optional) Irokawa Daikichi, The Age of Hirohito, 71-137.
Video: The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
8. Japan in the Postwar World    10.23-25

John Dower, "Peace and Democracy," Postwar Japan, 3-33
Bruce Cumings, "Japan's Position," Postwar Japan, 34-63.
"Murayama expresses apology for Japan's wartime actions"
Norma Field, "The Devastating Absence of Surprise"
Video: Godzilla

9. The Salaryman   10.30-11.1
Laura Hein, "Growth versus Success,"Postwar Japan, 99-122
Gordon, "Contests for the Workplace," Postwar Japan, 373-394
Shimizu, "Made in Japan"
10. Working Women     11.6-8
Paul Taro Greenfield, Speed Tribes, 227-243
Sandra Buckley, "Altered States," in Postwar Japan, 347-372
Kathleen Uno, "The Death of Good Wife, Wise Mother," in
Postwar Japan, 293-322
11. Students, Rebels   11.13-15
Murakami Haruki, Norwegian Wood
 Video: Family Game      11.20
 Greenfield, Speed Tribes, 19-83, 147-164, 247-283
Thanksgiving Holiday      11.22
12. Outsiders in the New Japan   11.27-29
Frank Upham, "Unplaced Persons and Movements for Place," in Postwar Japan, 325-346
David Pollack, "Revenge of the Illegal Asians," positions 1, no. 3
Rey Ventura, Underground in Japan, excerpts
 13. Comic-book culture     12.4-6
Ikeda, The Rose of Versailles, excerpts
Hayashi Rumiko, Ranma 1/2, excerpts (pt. 1, pt. 2, pt. 3)
Frank Schott, Manga, Manga, 12-27, 88-105
Video: Dream Girls