HIST 192 JAPAN, PAST AND PRESENT
Course Description
Office Hours: MW 10:30-12 and Tu 2-3:30, and by appointment, in 327 McKenzie.
Phone: 346-4837; E-mail: hanes@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Course Policies
Two five-page essays (20% each), a midterm examination (20%),
a final examination (20%), and participation in section (20%).
Required Texts
Albert M. Craig, The Heritage of Japanese Civilization
Ishinomori Shotaro, Japan Inc.: Introduction to Japanese Economics
Elisabeth Bumiller, The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese
Woman and Her Family
Gavan McCormack, The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence
Tsuzuki Kyoichi, Tokyo Style
Course Schedule
| Week 1 |
Reading |
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Week I. Introduction.
April 1. De-Exoticizing Japan.
April 3. Prehistory and Antiquity.
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Reading: Craig, xv-31. |
| Week 2 |
Reading |
Week II. Emperors, Aristrocats,
and Warriors.
April 8. Heijo and Heian.
April 10. Samurai Power. |
Reading: Craig, 32-61.
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| Week 3 |
Reading |
Week III. Shoguns, Oligarchs,
and the People.
April 15. Kinsei: The Tokugawa Peace.
April 17. Kindai: Meiji and Taisho. |
Reading: Craig, 62-118.
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| Week 4 |
Reading |
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Week IV. Imperial Japan.
April 22. Midterm Examination.
April 24. Overcoming Modernity.
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Reading: Craig, 118-133.
Begin Ishinomori, Japan Inc. |
| Week 5 |
Reading |
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Week V. The Postwar World.
April 29. The Pacific War.
May 1. The Occupation.
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Reading: Craig, 134-165.
Complete Ishinomori, Japan Inc.
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| Week 6 |
Reading |
Week VI. The Japanese Phoenix.
May 6. The Economic Miracle. Film: "The Colonel Comes to Japan"
May 8. Saving, Spending, and the New Middle Class.
Essay on Japan Inc. due.
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Reading: Begin Bumiller,
The Secrets of Mariko. |
| Week 7 |
Reading |
Week VII. Inventing Tradition.
May 13. Social Structure and National Identity.
May 15. Life Cycling: Men, Women, Family, Nation. |
Reading: Complete Bumiller,
The Secrets of Mariko.
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| Week 8 |
Reading |
Week VIII. Country and
City.
May 20. Rural Life. Film: "Farm Song".
May 22. Urban Life: Mass Culture, Mass Society?
Essay on Secrets of Mariko due.
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Reading: Tsuzuki, Tokyo
Style. |
| Week 9 |
Reading |
Week IX. Multi-Ethnic,
Multi-Cultural Japan.
May 27. Uchi and Soto: Insiders, Outsiders, and Otherness.
May 29. Re-made in Japan. Film: "The Japanese Version"
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Reading: Begin McCormack,
Emptiness of Japanese Affluence. |
| Week 10 |
Reading |
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Week X. Japan at the Millennium.
June 3. Blowing Bubbles.
June 5. Apocalypse Now?
Final Examination: 8:00-10:00 AM, Thursday, June 12 in 229 McKenzie.
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Reading: Complete McCormack,
Emptiness of Affluence. |
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