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Michaelmas 2015-Lent 2016 Japanese History (J6) - (Meiji to the Modern)
Dr. Barak Kushner, Room 309 (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies),
[email protected]
Dr. Arnaud Doglia, Room 208 (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies),
[email protected]
Lectures on Tuesday, 14:00-15:00 in Room 7
Seminars on Friday, 9:00-10:00 in Room 7
Lectures will be based on my speaking for a large portion of the first half of class followed by
intense discussion based on themes that I draw from the readings listed below, the general
historiography and paradigm of the topic, but also from outside sources. Lectures are not
designed to lull students into thinking they are attending a “performance;” lectures are
designed to ignite questions, spur passion, and force ideas into conflict in the full Socratic
method. Lectures will also be where we discuss the outside films required for viewing, and
what is happening in the press concerning Japanese history.
This course is split into two meetings a week – lecture and seminar. The class is designed for
students to focus on the history of Japan from the collapse of the Tokugawa bakufu, in the mid
19th century, until today. Students will become familiar with traditional Japanese culture and
political history, but also chart and understand how Japan has changed over the last several
centuries to become the economic powerhouse in Asia that it is today. In order to analyze
Japan’s current relations with its Asian counterparts, we will also examine Japan’s shifting
self-image and foreign relations over the centuries, with particular focus on China.
**Please do the readings for this class in the library or return the books sooner than later so
that other students have equal access.
***Essay for supervision: Topics will be explained to students during term.
Supervision 1 (Michaelmas)
Essay Questions: To be circulated in Week 2
Essay Due: Beginning of Week 6
Supervision: Weeks 6, 7 and 8
Supervision 2 (Lent)
Essay Questions: To be circulated in Week 10
Essay Due: Beginning of Week 14
Supervision: Weeks 14 and 15
****The exam paper for this course will consist of answering three questions out of a larger
selection given at the end of Easter Term.
Good General Histories (purchasing one of these will assist you.)
James McClain, Japan: A Modern History
Conrad Totman, Early Modern Japan
Marius Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan
Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Re-inventing Japan.
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Other series that will be helpful:
Peter Kornicki edited series on Meiji Japan (Routledge)
Stephen Large’s edited series on Showa Japan (Routledge)
William Tsutsui’s volume on modern Japanese History (Blackwell Publishers)
*all articles and books are either on reserve or available in electronic form through the library
servers. If you check them out for too long then others cannot read them. Buy them yourself or
put them back on the shelf where you found them. Coming to class and saying, “I couldn’t find
it, is NOT an excuse.” You will be expected to have read preparatory material!
**October 9 at 9am in Room 7, Preparatory Class: Lecture and Discussion
on Japanese History and Skills. Due to the vagaries of the Cambridge start
of term we will begin this class with the discussion class on Friday, but it will
be half lecture and half discussion to ease everyone into class and discuss a
variety of introductory topics. No reading will be necessary but attendance is
mandatory and readings will be required from the following week.
Week 1 (October 13 and 16)
Session 1: Japan in a China Centered World? Crumbling Tokugawa
Lecture: Overview of Tokugawa polity and Japanese feudal society; begin identifying symbols
and issues linked to the concepts of tradition vs. modernity in East Asia. Class introduction to
the state of East Asian diplomacy in a Sino-centered universe. Introduce terminology for
historically understanding East Asia and outline of geography and worldview, Confucian
relations, and trade. Map skills!
Core Reading
*Jean-Pierre Lehmann, “Old and New Japonisme: The Tokugawa Legacy and Modern
European Images of Japan,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4 (1984), pp.757-768.
*W.G. Beasly, “The Edo Experience and Japanese Nationalism,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol.
18, No. 4 (1984), pp.555-566.
*Takeshi Hamashita, “Tribute and Treaties: East Asian Treaty Ports Networks in the Era of
Negotiation, 1834-1894,” European Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (2002),
pp.59-87.
*Hoon Lee, “The Repatriation of Castaways in Chosŏn Korea-Japan Relations, 1599-1888,”
Korean Studies, Vol. 30 (2006), pp.67-90.
*Jeffrey A. Keith, “Civilization, Race, and the Japan Expedition’s Cultural Diplomacy, 18531854,” Diplomatic History, Vol. 35, No. 2 (April 2011), pp.179-202.
Further Reading
Nishiyama Matsunosuke, Edo Culture J 250.24
Katsu Koichi, Musui’s story: the autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai. J 350 KAT 1
Selections from James L. McClain, John M. Merriman and Kaoru Ugawa, Edo and Paris,
Urban life and the State in the Early Modern Era
Marius Jansen, J 250.18; China in the Tokugawa World, p. 53-91, J 255.12.
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Paul E. Eckel Source, The Crimean War and Japan Author, The Far Eastern Quarterly, Vol. 3,
No. 2, (Feb., 1944), pp. 109-118.
Reinier Hesselink, “The Assassination of Henry Heusken,” Monumenta Nipponica, Autumn
1994, pp. 331-351.
W.G. Beasly, “The Edo Experience and Japanese Nationalism,” Modern Asian Studies, 1984,
pp. 555-556.
Douglas R. Howland, Translating the West: language and political reason in nineteenthcentury Japan, J 403.4
Andrew Cobbing. Satsuma students in Britain: Japan's early search for the essence of the
West, J 256.22
Andrew Cobbing. Japanese discovery of Victorian Britain: early travel encounters in the far
West
You can now read the Cambridge history series of Japan online if you would prefer to read
from
your
room.
(http://histories.cambridge.org/search_results?search_scope=collection&query=japan&collecti
on_id=set_cambridge_history_japan&advanced=0) Find a related chapter for this era and read
it through.
Week 2 (October 20 and 23)
Session 2: Meiji Restoration
Lecture: How did Japan change during the 1850s and 1860s? In what way were these changes
significant and affect the later evolution of Japan? Was the bloodless revolution really all that
free of violence? What did Meiji aim to discard and why? Can a society really transform
overnight? How does the myth of Saigo Takamori and the last samurai resonate with
Japanese society then and now?
Core Reading
*James L. Huffman, “Restoration and Revolution,” A Companion to Japanese History.
(http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/bkjapanhistory/restoration_and_revolutio
n/0)
*George M. Wilson, “Plots and Motives in Japan’s Meiji Restoration,” Comparative Studies in
Society and History, Vol. 25, No. 3 (July, 1983), pp.407-427.
*Charles L. Yates, “Saigō Takamori in the Emergence of Meiji Japan,” Modern Asian Studies,
Vol. 28, No. 3 (July, 1994), pp.449-474.
*Germaine A. Hoston, “Conceptualizing Bourgeois Revolution: The Prewar Japanese Left and
the Meiji Restoration,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 33, No. 3 (July,
1991), pp.539-581.
*Conrad Totman, “Ethnicity in the Meiji Restoration: An Interpretive Essay,” Monumen ta
Nipponica, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Autumn, 1982), pp.269-287.
*Simon Kaner, “Beyond Ethnicity and Emergence in Japanese Archaeology,” Multicultural
Japan,
pp.46-59.
(http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9781139084901&cid=CBO97811390
84901A015&tabName=Chapter)
Further Reading
Masao Miyoshi, As we saw them. J 256.12
Examine the early Meiji Constitution, online or in David Lu’s collection of reference materials,
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Japan.
Read “Meiji” section of Stephen Large. Emperors of the Rising Sun. J 325.1
W. G. Beasley, “Japanese Castaways and British Interpreters,” Monumenta Nipponica, Vol.
46, No. 1. (Spring, 1991), pp. 91-103.
See Beasley’s book, The Meiji Restoration as well.
On your own take a look at the translations from the early Meiji magazine Meiroku zasshi in
the Faculty library.
Ian Nish. ed., The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: a new assessment
Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Cartographies of desire: male-male sexuality in Japanese discourse,
1600-1950 (last several chapters that deal with Bakumatsu and Meiji era sexuality)
Any differences or similarities with Beasley’s take on the restoration in comparison with Anne
Walthall, The weak body of a useless woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration.
Mark Ravina, The last samurai: the life and battles of SaigoTakamori, J 350 SAI 2
Joyce C. Lebra, Okuma Shigenobu: statesman of Meiji Japan, J 357 OKU 1
Nagatsuka Takashi, translated and with an introduction by Ann Waswo, The soil: a portrait of
rural life in Meiji Japan, J 948.11
James L. Huffman, Creating a public: people and press in Meiji Japan, J 070.17
Week 3 (October 27 and 30)
Session 3: Establishing a New Society; Charting New Legal Territory
Lecture: The changing body of a samurai – from warrior to sportier. An examination of how
the state began to promote hygiene, family and a new work ethic among the population.
Describe the roots of nationalism and how Japan cleaved itself away from Asia. The roots of a
new nation are in the laws, schools and fields. What happens when the political goals of the
Restoration are realized and political parties begin to clamor for their promised rights?
Core Reading
*E. Sydney Crawcour, “Chapter 8: Industrialization and Technological Change, 1885-1920,”
The Cambridge History of Japan Volume 6: The Twentieth Century, pp.383-450.
(http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9781139
055109&cid=CBO9781139055109A014)
*Sheldon Garon, “Introduction,” “The Origins of Japanese Social Policy, 1868-1918,” State
and Labor in Modern Japan, pp.1-38. (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pagevieweridx?c=acls&cc=acls&idno=heb02405.0001.001&node=heb02405.0001.001%3A7&view
=image&seq=17&size=100)
*Jason G. Karlin, “The Gender of Nationalism: Competing Masculinities in Meiji Japan,” The
Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter, 2002), pp.41-77.
*Douglas Howland, “Society Reified: Herbert Spencer and Political Theory in Early Meiji
Japan,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 42, No. 1 (January, 2000),
pp.67-86.
Further Reading
Donald Roden, “Baseball and the Quest for National Dignity in Meiji Japan,” American
Historical Review, June 1980, on reserve
The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi, J 351 FUK 1
Carol Gluck. Japan’s Modern Myths. J260.24
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Andrew Bernstein. Modern Passings
Richard T. Chang, “General Grant's 1879 Visit to Japan,” Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 24, No.
4. (1969), pp. 373-392.
Richard Bowen. Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan, J 263.2;
Sheldon Garon. State and Labor in Modern Japan. J567.10;
James Huffman. Creating a public: people and press in Meiji Japan
James Ketelaar. Of heretics and martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and its persecution.
Helen Hardacre, Shinto and the State.
Relevant chapters from Gail Bernstein ed. Recreating Japanese Women (see also relevant
chapters to our discussions in Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno, editors, Gendering modern
Japanese history; Wakita Haruko, Anne Bouchy, Ueno Chizuko, editors, Gender and Japanese
history; and Hitomi Tonomura, Anne Walthall, and Wakita Haruko, editors, Women and class
in Japanese history.
David Howell, Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan, J 559.7
Steven J. Ericson, Sound of the whistle: railroads and the state in Meiji Japan, J619.5
Gerald Figal, Civilization and monsters: spirits of modernity in Meiji Japan, J 941.7
Mara Patessio, Women and public life in early Meiji Japan : the development of the feminist
movement, J 570.71
Kenneth Pyle, New generation in Meiji Japan: problems of cultural identity, 1885-1895, J
263.1
Week 4 (November 3 and 6)
Session 4: Quick Industrialization; Leaving Meiji and the Old Century, Japan confronts Asia
Lecture: Detail the roots of Japanese industrialization in its agrarian upbringing and the
changing role of the countryside. How did Japan see itself versus China at this point, and
what changes in the role of government allowed it to implement such massive social change?
How did the position of labor change? When and how do local Japanese begin to identify
themselves nationally as Japanese, and why? How does the daily life of Japanese change over
five short decades? What about clothing, food, transportation and the initial thoughts of
empire? Describe early Japanese involvement in Taiwan and Korea. What is gender? And
how useful is it to look at Japanese modern history? Through the lens of gender, we will look
at the lives of Meiji, Taisho and early Showa people, and capture their experiences from birth
to death – childbirth, childcare, schooling, work, love, marriage, divorce, family, and old age.
Core Reading
*Tessa Morris-Suzuki, “A Descent into the Past: The Frontier in the Construction of Japanese
History,”
Multicultural
Japan,
pp.81-94.
(http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9781139084901&cid=CBO97811390
84901A018&tabName=Chapter)
*Mark E. Caprio, “Chapter 2: Japan’s Development of Internal and Peripheral Assimilation,”
Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, pp.49-80. [hard copy]
*Marlene Mayo, “The Korean Crisis of 1873 and Early Meiji Foreign Policy,” The Journal of
Asian Studies, Vol. 31, No. 4 (August 1972), pp.793-819.
*Robert Eskildsen, “Of Civilization and Savages: The Mimetic Imperialism of Japan’s 1874’s
Expedition to Taiwan,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 107, No. 2 (April 2002),
pp.388-418.
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*Andre Schmid, “Colonialism and the ‘Korea Problem’ in the Historiography of Modern Japan:
A Review Article,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 59, No. 4 (November 2000),
pp.951-976.
Further Reading
Michael Weiner, ed., Japan’s Minorities: the illusion of homogeneity, J 560.6
Paula Harrell, Sowing the Seeds of Change. J 586.1
Sharon Sievers. Flowers in Salt: the beginnings of feminist consciousness in modern Japan.
J570.16
Donald Roden. Schooldays in Imperial Japan; a study in the culture of a student elite.
Stewart Lone, Japan's First Modern War: Army and Society in the Conflict With China, 189495, J 265.5; view slides of Meiji era Japanese books on the war
T.Fujitani. Splendid Monarchy: Power & Pageantry in Modern Japan. J325 FUJ 1
E. Patricia Tsurumi. Japanese colonial education in Taiwan, 1895-1945.
Richard J. Smethurst, From foot soldier to finance minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan’s
Keynes
Shumpei Okamoto, “A Phase of Meiji Japan's Attitude toward China: The Case of Komura
Jutaro,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3. (1979), pp. 431-457.
Skim Yukiko Hayase, The career of Goto Shinpei: Japan’s statesman of research, 1857-1929.
E. Patricia Tsurumi, Factory girls : women in the thread mills of Meiji Japan,
Harald Fuess, ‘The Home, The School and the Middle Class: Parental Narratives of Child
Rearing in Fujin no Tomo, 1908-1926’, in Ulrike Wöhr, Barbara Hamill Sato and Sadami
Suzuki eds., Gender and Modernity: Rereading Japanese Women’s Magazines (International
Research Center for Japanese Studies: Kyoto, 1998), pp. 69-83. [UL: Order in Reading Room;
Classmark: 9001.b.6620].
Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno (eds.) Gendering Japanese History (Harvard University
Asia Center, 2005). [UL: South Front, Floor 2; Classmark: 245:2.c.200.867]
Barbara Sato, The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan
(Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2003). [FAMES: J 570.45]
Mariko Asano Tamanoi, ‘Songs as Weapons: The Culture and History of Komori
(Nursemaids) in Modern Japan’, Journal of Asian Studies, 50 (4), 1991, pp. 793-817. [ejournal]
Jung-Sun N. Han, “Empire of Comic Visions: Japanese Cartoon Journalism and its Pictorial
Statements on Korea, 1876-1910.” What does the author mean about gaze? How does this
article help us understand Japan’s place in E. Asia and opinions about itself?
Read also the slightly more academic though useful for thinking about modern Japan, Sven
Saalar’s, “Pan-Asianism in Meiji and Taishô Japan −A Preliminary Framework”
Simon Partner, “Peasants into Citizens? The Meiji Village in the Russo-Japanese War.” What
does the author’s title mean? When is a peasant not a citizen? What about an imperial
subject? Is this type of intellectual history significant or are we reading too much into the
situation?
Penelope Francks, “Inconspicuous Consumption: Sake, Beer, and the Birth of the Consumer in
Japan.” What are the Japanese eating and how do they dispose of their effluent? Should we
care? Why or why not?
*Comparisons with European imperialism – look at Chris Bayly’s The Birth of the Modern
World
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Week 5 (November 10 and 13)
Session 5: The Twentieth Century Begins; Russia Defeated, Japan’s International Reputation
Rises
Lecture: Japan starts to be more than Japan the island nation. Explain how Japan saw itself
in comparison to the world – in particular to Russia, Great Britain and its neighbors in East
Asia. How did Japan try to find its place? What military and political measures did it take
and how did the population react? What was the world response to Japan’s victory? How did
Chinese nationalists view Japan and how did western countries publicize the race of Japan?
What happened in East Asia in response to the rise of Communism in Russia? Lecture: Science
and technology were essential components to build and maintain the Japanese (and later
imperial) state throughout the modern period. Why? And how? Was there anything special
about Japanese science and technology?
Core Reading
*Akira Iriye, “Chapter 12: Japan’s Drive to Great-Power Status,” The Cambridge History of
Japan
Volume
5:
The
Nineteenth
Century,
pp.721-781.
(http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9781139
055093&cid=CBO9781139055093A016)
*Yuko Kato, “What Caused the Russo-Japanese War: Korea or Manchuria?” Social Science
Japan Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1 (April 2007), pp.95-103.
*Naoko Shimazu, “Patriotic and Despondent: Japanese Society at War, 1904-5,” Russian
Review, Vol. 67, No. 1 (January, 2008), pp.34-49.
*Simon Partner, “Peasants into Citizens? The Meiji Village in the Russo-Japanese War,”
Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Summer, 2007), pp.179-209.
*Cemil Aydin, “Chapter 4: The Global Moment of the Russo-Japanese War,” Politics of AntiWesternism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought,
pp.71-92. (http://site.ebrary.com/lib/camuk/reader.action?docID=10177983&ppg=5)
Further Reading
Alexis Dudden, Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power J 441.4
Andre Schmid, Korea Between Empires, K 270.6
Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan. J 593.2
Peter Duus. Abacus and the Sword
Akira Iriye. “Japan’s Drive to Great Power Status,” in vol.3 of Peter Kornicki, ed. Meiji Japan:
Political, Economic and Social History, 1868-1912.
Steve Rabson, “Yosano Akiko on War: To Give One’s Life or Not – A Question of Which
War,” article on reserve.
Peter B. High, “The Dawn of Cinema in Japan,” journal article on reserve. David L. Howell.
Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan;
Ian Nish. The origins of the Russo-Japanese War.
Ian Nish,The Anglo-Japanese alliance : the diplomacy of two island empires, 1894-1907.
Simon Partner, “Peasants into Citizens, The Meiji Village in the Russo-Japanese War,”
Monumenta Nipponica 62:2
Naoko Shimazu
Urs Matthias Zachmann, China and Japan in the late Meiji period : China policy and the
Japanese discourse on national identity, 1895-1904, J 266.1
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James Bartholomew, The Formation of Science in Japan (New Haven: Yale University Press,
1989). [UL: South Front, Floor 4; Classmark: 340:5.c.95.564]
Morris Low (ed.) Building a Modern Japan: Science, Technology and Medicine in the Meiji
Era and Beyond (New York and Houndmills: PalgraveMacmillan, 2005). [FAMES: J 570.45]
Akihisa Setoguchi, ‘Control of Insect Vectors in the Japanese Empire: Transformation of the
Colonial/Metropolitan Environment, 1920-1945’, East Asian Science, Technology and Society,
1(2), December 2007, pp. 167-181. [e-journal, open access].
Week 6 (November 17 and 20)
Session 6: Taisho Democracy? Roads to Imperialism; Roaring Twenties, Rising Tensions of
the Thirties
Lecture: What was the so-called “Taisho democracy”? What did politics and society in Taisho
democracy look like? How did people experience the era’s social transformation? How did
democracy and imperialism co-exist? Did Taisho democracy prepare Showa fascism or not?
Core Reading
*Andrew Gordon, “Introduction,” Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan, pp.1-10.
(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;idno=heb00392)
*Frederick R. Dickionson, “Chapter 2: Structural Foundations of a New Japan,” World War I
and
the
Triumph
of
a
New
Japan,
1919-1930,
pp.37-59.
(http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139794794)
*Sharon Hamilton Nolte, “Individualism in Taishō Japan,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.
43, No. 4 (Aug., 1984), pp.667-684.
*Barbara Hamill Sato, “The Emergency of Agency: Women and Consumerism” The new
Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan, pp.13-44.
(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?c=acls;cc=acls;idno=heb04094.0001.001;node=heb04094.0001.001%3A6;view=toc)
*Jung-Sun N. Han, “Envisioning a Liberal Empire in East Asia: Yoshino Sakuzō in Taisho
Japan Journal of Japanese Studies,” Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer, 2007), pp.357-382.
*Sonia Ryang, “The Tongue That Divided Life and Death. The 1923 Tokyo Earthquake and
the Massacre of Koreans,” The Asia-Pacific Journal (http://japanfocus.org/-SoniaRyang/2513)
Further Reading
Frederick R. Dickinson. War and national reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919. J
270.18
Chapter on Taisho Emperor in Stephen Large’s Emperors of the rising sun : three biographies.
Paul Dunscomb, “A Great Disobedience Against the People”: Popular Press Criticism of
Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918–22,” Journal of Japanese Studies, 2006. (on JSTOR, or
reserve)
Edward Seidenstecker. Low City, High City: p. 144-251. J 561.5
Sharon A. Minichiello. Japan's Competing Modernities, Issues in Culture and Democracy
1900-1930. (selected chapters). J 270.12
Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson, editors. Colonial modernity in Korea (selected chapters).
K 290.21
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Barbara J. Brooks, Japan’s imperial diplomacy: consuls, treaty ports, and war in China, 18951938.
Andrew E. Barshay, State and intellectual in Imperial Japan: the public man in crisis
1938.
Steve Rabson, “Yosano Akiko on War: To Give One’s Life or Not – A Question of Which
War,” (article on reserve).
Peter B. High, “The Dawn of Cinema in Japan,” journal article on reserve.
Ian Nish. The origins of the Russo-Japanese War.
Charles Schencking, “The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Culture of Catastrophe and
Reconstruction in 1920s Japan,” Japanese Studies, on reserve.
Bill Mihalopoulos, Sex in Japan's globalization, 1870-1930 : prostitutes, emigration and
nation building, J 576.19
Gregory Clancy, Earthquake nation: the cultural politics of Japanese seismicity, 1868-1930. J
563.17
Dina Lowy, The Japanese "new woman" : images of gender and modernity, J 570.72
William Johnston, Geisha, harlot, strangler, star : women, sex & morality in modern Japan, J
576.17
Film: バルトの学園
Week 7 (November 24 and 27)
Session 7: Roads to Imperialism
Lecture: What are the key domestic factors of Japanese imperialism? How does Japan move
into becoming a firm imperial power in East Asia and why? What sort of reaction does
Japanese imperialism and colonialism in East Asia generate within Japan, in East Asia, or in
the West?
Core Reading
*Louise Young, “Chapter 1: Manchukuo and Japan,” “Chapter 3: War Fever: Imperial
Jingoism and the Mass Media,” Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of
Wartime Imperialism, pp.3-20, 55-114. (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?c=acls;idno=heb00123)
*Gregory Kasza, “Fascism from below? A Comparative Perspective on the Japanese Right,
1931-1936,” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 19, No. 4, (October 1984), pp.607629.
*Sandra Wilson, “Bureaucrats and Villagers in Japan: ‘Shimin’ and the Crisis of the Early
1930s,” Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1998), pp.121-140.
*Sandra Wilson, “Rethinking the 1930s and the ‘15-Year War’ in Japan,” Japanese Studies,
Vol. 21, No. 2 (2001), pp.155-164.
Further Reading
Simon Partner. Toshie: a story of village life in twentieth-century Japan, J 558.17
Barbara Sato, The new Japanese woman: modernity, media, and women in interwar Japan. J
570.45
Tina Norgren. Abortion before birth control: the politics of reproduction in postwar Japan.
Peattie, Duus, et al. ed, The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937, “Training China
Hands,” p. 210-271. J 440.6
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Sheldon Garon. Molding Japanese Minds - the State in Everyday Life. (selected chapters). J
561.14
E. Taylor Atkins, “The War on Jazz, or Jazz Goes to War: Toward a New Cultural Order in
Wartime Japan” Positions, 1998, vol 2. (article on reserve)
Peter B. High. The imperial screen: Japanese film culture in the fifteen years’ war, 1931-1945 /
J 690.44
Ivan Morris, Nobility of Failure, chapter on Kamikaze. (on reserve or on email)
Tanaka Toshiyuki. Hidden horrors: Japanese war crimes in World War II. J 275.81
Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook. Japan at War, an Oral History, (selected chapters).
J 275.64
Ienaga, Saburo, The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945. J 275.8a
Barak Kushner, The Thought War – Japanese Imperial Propaganda J 413.17
Richard Smethurst, A social basis for prewar Japanese militarism; the army and the rural
community.
Sayo Masuda (translated by G.G. Rowley) Autobiography of a Geisha, J 358 MAS 1
Roger Brown, “Shepherds of the People: Yasuoka Masahiro and the New Bureaucrats in Early
Showa Japan,” Journal of Japanese Studies, (on reserve)
Richard J. Smethurst, A social basis for prewar Japanese militarism: the army and the rural
community.
Mariko Asano Tamanoi, edited, Crossed histories: Manchuria in the age of empire.
Lu Yan, Re-understanding Japan: Chinese perspectives, 1895-1945.
Erik Esselstrom, “The Life and Memory of Hasegawa Teru: Contextualizing Human Rights,
Trans/Nationalism, and the Antiwar Movement in Modern Japan, Radical History Review,
Issue 101 (Spring 2008), on reserve.
Janice Matsumura, “State Propaganda and Mental Disorders: The Issue of Psychiatric
Casualties among Japanese Soldiers during the Asia-Pacific War, Bull. Hist. Med., 2004, 78:
804–835
Film: Jet Li’s film about Japan’s rapacious in 1920s China – Fist of Legend, (to compare with
Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury. DVD: F II 79000.19
Week 8 (December 1 and 4)
Session 8: Thriving Empire and War
Lecture: How did Japan fight the Asia-Pacific war? What was the logic of the “Greater East
Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”? How did the war transform colonial societies? What did wartime
mobilization look like in Japan?
Core Reading
*Noriko Kawamura, “Hirohito and Japan’s Decision to Go to War with the United States:
Reexamined,” Diplomatic History, Vol. 31, No. 1 (January 2007), pp.51-79.
*John W. Dower, “Chapter 1: Patterns of Race War” War without Mercy: Race and Power in
the
Pacific
War,
pp.3-14.
(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?c=acls;cc=acls;idno=heb02403.0001.001;node=heb02403.0001.001%3A2;view=toc)
*Eri Hotta, “Introduction: Pan-Asian Ideology and the Fifteen Years’ War,” Pan-Asianism and
Japan’s War, 1931-1945, pp.1-18. (http://lib.myilibrary.com/Open.aspx?id=191542)
*Wan-yao Chou, “Chapter 2: The Kōminka Movement in Taiwan and Korea: Comparisons and
Interpretations,”
The
Japanese
Wartime
Empire,
1931-1945,
pp.40-68.
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(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?c=acls;cc=acls;idno=heb01938.0001.001;node=heb01938.0001.001%3A5;view=toc)
*Ken’ichi Gotō, “Chapter 9: Cooperation, Submission, and Resistance of Indigenous Elites of
Southeast Asia in the Wartime Empire,” The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945,
pp.40-68.
(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?c=acls;cc=acls;idno=heb01938.0001.001;node=heb01938.0001.001%3A5;view=toc)
*Erik Esselstrom, “The Life and Memory of Hasegawa Teru: Contextualizing Human Rights,
Trans/Nationalism, and the Antiwar Movement in Modern Japan,” Radical History
Review Issue 101 (Spring 2008), pp.145-159.
Further Reading
Yoshimi Yoshiaki, Grassroots fascism: the war experience of the Japanese people (translated
and annoted by Ethan Mark), New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, J 275.142
Mariko Asano Tamanoi, edited, Crossed histories: Manchuria in the age of empire.
Lu Yan, Re-understanding Japan: Chinese perspectives, 1895-1945.
Louise Young, Japan's total empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism
Erik Esselstrom, “The Life and Memory of Hasegawa Teru: Contextualizing Human Rights,
Trans/Nationalism, and the Antiwar Movement in Modern Japan, Radical History Review,
Issue 101 (Spring 2008)
Ronald Suleski, “Northeast China under Japanese Control: The Role of the Manchurian Youth
Corps, 1934-1945, “ Modern China, Vol. 7, No. 3. (Jul., 1981), pp. 351-377.
David Vance Tucker, Building "Our Manchukuo": Japanese city planning, architecture, and
nation-building in occupied Northeast China, 1931-1945
Peattie, Duus, et al. ed, The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937, “Training China
Hands,” p. 210-271. J 440.6
Louise Young. Japan's Total Empire, Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism.
(selected chapters). J 274.43
Sheldon Garon. Molding Japanese Minds - the State in Everyday Life. (selected chapters). J
561.14
E. Taylor Atkins, “The War on Jazz, or Jazz Goes to War: Toward a New Cultural Order in
Wartime Japan” Positions, 1998, vol 2. (article on reserve)
Peter B. High, The imperial screen : Japanese film culture in the fifteen years’ war, 19311945, J 690.44
Eri Hotta, Pan-Asianism and Japan's war 1931-1945. J 274.52
Aaron Moore, “The Chimera of Privacy: Reading Self-Discipline in Japanese Diaries from the
Second World War (1937–1945),” Journal of Asian Studies, 2009.
George Hicks, Comfort women: sex slaves of the Japanese imperial forces, J 275.71
David Earhart, Certain Victory: images of World War II in the Japanese Media. J 070.24
Kenneth Ruoff, Imperial Japan at its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire’s 2,600th
Anniversary.
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Kamikaze, cherry blossoms, and nationalisms: the militarization of
aesthetics in Japanese history, University of Chicago Press, 2002, J 275.104
James Brandon, Kabuki's forgotten war : 1931-1945, J 867.16
Jing-Bao Nie, ed,. Japan's wartime medical atrocities : comparative inquiries in science,
history, and ethics, J 483.12
Film: Frank Capra's Know Your Enemy Japan
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**Winter Break – Use your time wisely to read**
**January 15 at 9am in Room 7, Preparatory Class: Lecture and Discussion
on Postwar Japanese History. Due to the vagaries of the Cambridge start of
term we will begin this class with the discussion class on Friday, but it will
be half lecture and half discussion to ease everyone into class and discuss a
variety of introductory topics. No reading will be necessary but attendance is
mandatory and readings will be required from the following week.
Week 9 (January 19 and 22)
Session 9: Defeat and Reconstruction versus Memory and History
Lecture: What actually made the Japanese government decide to surrender? How did Japan
and the Allies adjudicate wartime responsibility? How did the manner in which the war ended
and the occupation develop affect Japan’s postwar shape and growth? How do Japanese
people remember the war?
Core Reading
*Yukiko Koshiro, “Eurasian Eclipse: Japan’s End Game in World War II,” The American
Historical Review, Vol. 109, No. 2 (April 2004), pp.417-444.
*Takashi Fujitani, “The Reischauer Memo: Mr. Moto, Hirohito, and Japanese American
Soldiers,” Critical Asian Studies, Vol. 33, No. 3 (September 2001), pp.379-402.
*Kirsten Sellars, “Imperfect Justice at Nuremberg and Tokyo,” European Journal of
International Law, Vol. 21, Issue 4 (November 2010), pp.1085-1102.
*Timothy Brook, “The Tokyo Judgment and the Rape of Nanking,” The Journal of Asian
Studies, Vol. 60, No. 3 (August 2001), pp.673-700.
*John Dower, “The Bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory,” Diplomatic
History, Vol. 19, Issue 2 (March 1995), pp. 275-295.
Further Reading
Robert Pape, “Why Japan Surrendered,” International Security 1993: p. 154-201. (JSTOR)
Gary Allinson. Japan’s postwar history, J 276.10a
John Dower. Embracing Defeat J 276.15
Victor Minear. Victor's Justice. J 277.14
Ian Buruma. Wages of Guilt J 481.6 vs. Norma Field. In the Realm of a Dying Emperor. J
550.27
Joshua Fogel, ed. The Nanking Massacre in History and Historiography. (compare Chinese
and Japanese perspectives). F II 40129
Herbert Bix. Hirohito: pages on Tokyo Trials, p.581-618; Salvaging Imperial Mystique, p.619646.
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. J
275.109
Was America or were the Allies culpable? Richard Minear, Hiroshima: three witnesses
Yuma Totani. The Tokyo war crimes trial: the pursuit of justice in the wake of World War II.
Peter Li, Japanese War Crimes: The Search for Justice
James Orr, The Victim as Hero. J 276.17
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Ienaga Saburo, Japan’s past, Japan’s future: one historian’s odyssey; translated and
introduced by Richard H. Minear, J 360 IEN 1
Naoko Shibusawa, America’s Geisha Ally.
Ivan Morris, Nobility of Failure, chapter on Kamikaze. (on reserve or on email)
Tanaka, Toshiyuki. Hidden horrors: Japanese war crimes in World War II. J 275.81
Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook. Japan at War, an Oral History, (selected chapters).
J 275.64
Ienaga, Saburo. The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945. J 275.8a
Barak Kushner. The Thought War. (final chapter on preparing for defeat) J 413.17
John Dower. Embracing Defeat J 276.15
James R. Brandon, “Myth and Reality: A Story of Kabuki during American Censorship,
1945–1949,” Asian Theatre Journal. (on reserve), or his book Kabuki's forgotten war : 19311945, J 867.16
Beatrice Trefalt, Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-1975, J
483.8
Seaton, Philip A. Japan's Contested War Memories The 'memory Rifts' in Historical
Consciousness of World War,J 275.113
Watch: 東京裁判 (Tokyo saiban [videorecording] = International Military Tribunal for the Far
East); J 690.170.1
Week 10 (January 26 and 29)
Session 10: Godzilla and the Rising Sun
Lecture: Discuss Japan’s economic rise during the 1950s and 60s, the wax and wane of
postwar culture and society. How did Japan see itself after the war in ways similar or different
to its prewar self? How did the world see Japan and why?
Core Reading
*Yutaka Kosai and Andrew Goble, “Chapter 10: The Postwar Japanese Economy, 1945-1973,”
The Cambridge History of Japan Volume 6: The Twentieth Century, pp.494-538.
(http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO97811390
55109)
*Sebastian Conrad, “‘The Colonial Ties Are Liquidated’: Modernization Theory, Post-War
Japan and the Global Cold War,” Past and Present, No. 216 (August 2012), pp.181-214.
*Carol Gluck, “The ‘End’ of the Postwar: Japan at the Turn of the Millennium,” Public
Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Fall 1997), pp.1-23.
*Barak Kushner, "Gojira as Japan's First Postwar Media Event," in William Tsutsui, ed., In
Godzilla's Footsteps : Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage, New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, p. 41-51.
Further Reading
Ken Ruoff. The People’s Emperor. J 325.2
Inoue Shun, “The invention of Martial Arts,” and Lee Thompson, “The invention of the
Yokozuna.” In Stephen Vlastos (Editor). Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern
Japan. J 040.32 Pick out others if they interest you.
Mary Alice Haddad, “From Undemocratic to Democratic Civil Society: Japan’s Volunteer Fire
Departments,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, No. 1 (February 2010), pp.33-56.
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Thomas Havens. Fire Across the Sea. (Compare US involvement in Vietnam with Japan’s
quagmire in Asia). J 444.2
Yoshikuni Igarashi. Bodies of Memory, J 276.16
Ronald Dore, The diploma disease: education, qualification and development
Kenneth Pyle. The Japanese question: power and purpose in a new era, J 413.7
Robert Pape, “Why Japan Surrendered,” International Security 1993: p. 154-201. (article on
reserve or JSTOR)
Norma Field. In the Realm of a Dying Emperor. (selected chapters in both books) J 550.27
Chalmers Johnson, Japan: who governs?: the rise of the developmental state (J411.16)
Week 11 (February 2 and 5)
Session 11: Memories of Japanese War Atrocities
Lecture: How does Japan remember the war? Did popular perceptions evolve over time? What
are the main issues and problems when discussing war crimes and atrocities? How do
Japanese war atrocities compare to crimes committed by other nations during World War
Two? Can they and/or should they be compared?
Core Reading
*Arnaud Doglia, “Japanese Mass Violence and Its Victims in the “Fifteen Years’ War” (193145).
http://www.massviolence.org/Japanese-mass-violence-and-its-victims-in-theFifteen-Years
* “Introduction and conclusion,” in Tanaka Yuki, Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in
World War II (Westview Press, 1997).
*Yoshida Takashi,
“Historiography of the Asia-Pacific
War in
Japan,”
http://www.massviolence.org/Historiography-of-the-Asia-Pacific-War-inJapan?decoupe_recherche=yoshida
*Yoshiko Nozaki and Hiromitsu Inokuchi, “Japanese Education, Nationalism, and Ienaga
Saburo’s Textbook Lawsuits,” in Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan,
Germany, and the United States, edited by Laura Elizabeth Hein and Mark Selden (M.E.
Sharpe, 2000).
*Yoshimi Yoshiaki, Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World
War II (Columbia University Press, 2000).
Further Reading
Lévy Christine, “The Japanese Imperial Army’s ‘Comfort Women’: Political Implications and
the Gender of Memory,” http://www.massviolence.org/The-Japanese-Imperial-Army-s
Kasahara Tokushi, “Remembering the Nanking Massacre,” in Nanking 1937: Memory and
Healing, edited by Fei Fei Li, Robert Sabella, and David Liu (M.E. Sharpe, 2001).
“Conclusion and Note: Changing Japanese Views of the War,” in Ienaga Saburō, The Pacific
War, 1931-1945, trans. Frank Baldwin (Pantheon Books, 1978).
“Demons from the East,” in Japan at War: an Oral History, edited by Haruko Taya Cook and
Theodore Cook (The New Press, 1992).
Yang Daqin, “Documentary Evidence and the Studies of Japanese War Crimes: An Interim
Assessment,” in Researching Japanese War Crimes Records: Introductory Essays, edited by
Edward Drea, Greg Bradsher, Robert Hanyok, James Lide, Michael Petersen, and Daqing
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Yang (Washington, DC: Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/japanese-warInteragency
Working
Group,
2006).
crimes/introductory-essays.pdf
Week 12 (February 9 and 12)
Session 12: Japanese Biological Warfare from War to Postwar
Lecture: Why study the Japanese biological warfare programme? What are its implications for
postwar Japan, beyond memory issues? What was the fate of the scientific community after
1945 and how did it manage to reintegrate Japanese society? How did chemical weapons
affect the Japanese population?
Core Reading
*Jing Biao Nie, Nanyan Guo, Mark Selden, and Arthur Kleinman, eds., Japan’s Wartime
Medical Atrocities: Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics (Routledge,
2011).
*Dickinson Frederick R., “Biohazard: Unit 731 in Postwar Japanese Politics of National
Forgetfulness,” http://www.japanfocus.org/-Frederick_R_-Dickinson/2543
*Tsuneishi Keiichi, “Unit 731 and the Human Skulls Discovered in 1989: Physicians Carrying
Out Organized Crimes,” in Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research,
edited by William LaFleur, Gernot Böhme, and Susumu Shimazono (Indiana University
Press, 2008)
*Tanaka, Yuki, “Poison Gas, the Story Japan Would Like to Forget.” Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists,
44
(8)
1988:
10--19,
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tAYAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Tanaka,
+Yuki.+“Poison+Gas,+the+Story+Japan+Would+Like+to+Forget.”+Bulletin+of+the+Atom
ic+Scientists,+44+(8)+1988:+10-19.&source=bl&ots=7LJXSbDEDf&sig=5JzxYeBN3gD9SpxztUgQ7OMNCN4&hl=fr&sa
=X&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAGoVChMI_svzzPCZyAIVzFoaCh0GMwg8#v=onepage&q=Tan
aka%2C%20Yuki.%20“Poison%20Gas%2C%20the%20Story%20Japan%20Would%20Lik
e%20to%20Forget.”%20Bulletin%20of%20the%20Atomic%20Scientists%2C%2044%20(8
)%201988%3A%2010--19.&f=false
*Nie Jing Biao, “The United States Cover-Up of Japanese Wartime Medical Atrocities:
Complicity Committed in the National Interest and Two Proposals for Contemporary
Action,” The American Journal of Bioethics, 6, no. 3 (July 2006): W21–W33.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15265160600686356?journalCode=uajb20
#.VH9KiIsSNGg
Further Reading
Harris Sheldon H., Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American
Cover-up, London, Routledge, 1994.
Yoneyama, Lisa. Hiroshima Traces. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Jeans Roger B., Jr., « Alarm in Washington: A Wartime "Exposé" of Japan's Biological
Warfare Program », in The Journal of Military History, Lexington, Society for Military History,
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Vol.
71,
N°
2,
2007,
pp.
411-439,
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jmh/summary/v071/71.2jeans.html.
Powell John W., « Japan’s Germ Warfare: The US Coverup of a War Crime », in Bulletin of
Concerned Asian Scholars, Boston, Vol. 12, N° 4, octobre–décembre 1980, pp. 2-17,
http://criticalasianstudies.org/assets/files/bcas/v12n04.pdf.
Week 13 (February 16 and 19)
Session 13: Times of Trouble: Japan in the 1960s
Lecture: What is the impact of economic success on Japanese society? What are the new
paradigms put forward for the future? How does Japan reintegrate the international
community? What are the internal consequences of the Japan-U.S. alliance?
Core Reading
* Simon Andrew Avenell, Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the
Shiminin Postwar Japan, pp. 62-105.
*Timothy S. George, Minamata: pollution and the struggle for democracy in postwar Japan, J
373.8
*R. Scalapino. The Japanese communist movement, 1920-1966, (read only from p. 48 to the
end), J 420.2
*Kenneth Pyle, The Japanese question: power and purpose in a new era, p.121-146. J 413.7
*Allen Guttmann, Lee Thompson, Japan at the Olympics: 1952–1998 (pp. 193-210),
http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wqsmj
*Patricia G. Steinhoff, “Hijackers, Bombers, and Bank Robbers: Managerial Style in the
Japanese Red Army,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 48, No. 4. (Nov., 1989), pp.
724-740. (on JSTOR)
Further Reading
Christopher Gerteis, Gender struggles : wage-earning women and male-dominated unions in
postwar Japan, J 570.62
Christopher P. Hood, Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan, Routledge,
2006.
Nazuko Tsurumi, Social Change and the Individual: Japan Before and After Defeat in World
War II, pp. 307-390.
Franziska Seraphim, War memory and social politics in Japan, 1945-2005
William Marotti, "Political Aesthetics: Activism, Eeryday Life, and Art’s Object in 1960s’
Japan",
Inter-Asia
Cultural
Studies,
Volume
7,
Number
4,
2006,
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/marotti/iacs_article_offprint.pdf
Yoshikuni Igarashi. Bodies of Memory, J 276.16
Andrew Gordon, ed. Postwar Japan as History, J 276.7
Richard Samuels, "Rich nation, strong army": national security and the technological
transformation of Japan, J 480.11
Patricia G. Steinhoff, “Portrait of a Terrorist: An Interview with Kozo Okamoto,” Asian
Survey, Vol. 16, No. 9. (Sep., 1976), pp. 830-845. (on JSTOR)
Anne E. Imamura, edited, Re-imaging Japanese women, J 570.34
Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, editors. Network power: Japan and Asia, J 436.54
Watch the film: Always (What role does nostalgia play in postwar Japan?)
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Week 14 (February 23 and 26)
Session 14: Japan in the World – South East Asia, China and Korea
Lecture: What is Japan’s postwar role, given that its constitution does not allow for a standing
military? How did Japan’s position shift in the 1980s. What international situations propelled
Japan along its current course and how? What problems does the economic battleship of
Japan face? How does Japan turn toward or away from Asia once again?
Core Reading
*Hiroyuki Hoshiro, “Co-Prosperity Sphere Again? United States Foreign Policy and Japan’s
First ‘Regionalism’ in the 1950s,” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 82, No. 3 (Fall 2009), pp.385-405.
*Kil J. Yi, “In Search of a Panacea: Japan-Korea Rapprochement and America’s ‘Far Eastern
Problems,’” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 71, No. 4 (November 2002), pp.633-662.
*Barak Kushner, “Pawns of Empire: Postwar Taiwan, Japan and the Dilemma of War Crimes,”
Japanese Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1 (May 2010), pp.111-133.
*Tessa Morris-Suzuki, “Exodus to North Korea Revisited: Japan, North Korea, and the ICRC
in the ‘Repatriation’ of Ethnic Koreans from Japan,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 9,
Issue 22, No. 2 (May 30, 2011). (http://japanfocus.org/-Tessa-Morris_Suzuki/3541)
*Curtis Anderson Gayle, “China in the Japanese Radical Gaze, 1945-1955,” Modern Asian
Studies, Vol. 43, No. 5 (September 2009), pp.1255-1286.
Further Reading
Rana Mitter and Sheila Miyoshi Jagar, eds. Ruptured Histories: War, Memory and the PostCold War in Asia: especially chapters by Seraphim, Igarashi, Sherif, Vickers, Cumings;
William Stueck. The Korean War.
John Breen editor, Yasukuni: the war dead and the struggle for Japan’s past, J 440.26
John Nelson, “Social Memory as Ritual Practice: Commemorating Spirits of the Military Dead
at Yasukuni Shinto Shrine,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 62, No. 2 (May, 2003), pp.
443-467 (in JSTOR)
William LaFleur’s Liquid Life J 571.11
Tessa Morris-Suzuki’s The Past Within Us, J 576.10
Patricia G. Steinhoff, “Hijackers, Bombers, and Bank Robbers: Managerial Style in the
Japanese Red Army,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 48, No. 4. (Nov., 1989), pp. 724-740.
(on JSTOR)
Richard Samuels, "Rich nation, strong army": national security and the technological
transformation of Japan, J 480.11
Patricia G. Steinhoff, “Portrait of a Terrorist: An Interview with Kozo Okamoto,” Asian
Survey, Vol. 16, No. 9. (Sep., 1976), pp. 830-845. (on JSTOR)
Anne E. Imamura, edited, Re-imaging Japanese women, J 570.34
Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, editors. Network power: Japan and Asia, J 436.54
Ken Ruoff. The People’s Emperor. J 325.2
Inoue Shun, “The invention of Martial Arts,” and Lee Thompson, “The invention of the
Yokozuna.” In Stephen Vlastos (Editor). Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern
Japan. J 040.32
Thomas Havens. Fire Across the Sea. (selected chapters, compare US involvement in Vietnam
with Japan’s quagmire in Asia). J 444.2
Yoshikuni Igarashi. Bodies of Memory, for relevant sections. J 276.16
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Dennis J. Frost, Seeing stars: sports celebrity, identity, and body culture in modern Japan, J
579.29
Watch the film: Always (What role does nostalgia play in postwar Japan?)
Week 15 (March 1 and 4)
Session 15: Japan in the World – An Obituary or New Paradigm?
Lecture: How does Japan interact with the rest of the world – mostly importantly the US,
Korea, and China? Where is Japan heading and what are the major forces at play? How
should we judge modern Japanese history?
Core Reading
*Barak Kushner, “Nationality and Nostalgia: The Manipulation of Memory in Japan, Taiwan,
and China since 1990,” The International History Review, Vol. 29, Issue 4 (December
2007), pp.793-820.
*David Hundt and Roland Bleiker, “Reconciling Colonial Memories in Korea and Japan,”
Asian Perspective, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2007), pp.61-91.
*Hyunah Yang, “Finding the ‘Map of Memory’: Testimony of the Japanese Military Sexual
Slavery Survivors,” Positions, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 2008), pp.79-107.
*John W. Dower, “The San Francisco System: Past, Present, Future in U.S.-Japan-China
Relations,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 8, No. 2 (February 24, 2014).
(http://japanfocus.org/-John_W_-Dower/4079)
*Hiroshi Mitani, “Why Do We Still Need to Talk About ‘Historical Understanding’ in East
Asia?” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 32, No. 2 (August 11, 2014).
(http://japanfocus.org/-Hiroshi-Mitani/4161)
* Murakami Haruki, Underground: the Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese psyche, J 576.10
Further Reading
Andrew Gordon, ed. Postwar Japan as History, J 276.7
Kevin Doak, “Japanese National Narratives” (article on reserve)
Murakami Haruki, Underground: the Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese psyche,
John Nathan article on Ishihara Shintaro in the April 9, 2001 issue of the New Yorker. (on
reserve)
Schodt, Frederick. Manga, Manga J 070.7
Arif Dirlik "Past Experience, If Not Forgotten, Is a Guide to the Future"; Or, What Is in a
Text? The Politics of History in Chinese-Japanese Relations, boundary 2, Vol. 18, No. 3, Japan
in the World. (Autumn, 1991), pp. 29-58.
Leo Ching, “Imaginings of the Empires of the Sun: Japanese Mass Culture in Asia,” Boundary,
Spring 1994, 198-214. (article on reserve)
Yoshino Kosaku, Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan, (on reserve) pp. 1-67.
Jacob M. Schlesinger, Shadow shoguns: the rise and fall of Japan's postwar political machine,
J 413.11 and compare with Karl Van Wolfren’s conclusion in his book Enigma of Japanese
Power. J 413.1
Roger B. Jean, “Victims or Victimizers? Museums, Textbooks, and the War Debate in
Contemporary Japan,” The Journal of Military History 69 (January 2005): 149–95. (on reserve
and JSTOR)
Kenneth B. Pyle, “The Future of Japanese Nationality: An Essay in Contemporary History,”
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Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2. (Summer, 1982), pp. 223-263.
Kenneth B. Pyle, “Reading the New Era in Asia: The Use of History and Culture Making of
Foreign Policy,” Asia policy, number 3 (january 2007), 1–11
Peter Hays Gries.China’s new nationalism : pride, politics, and diplomacy, F II 98490.13 (find
the Japan relevancy here)
Ian Reader, Religious violence in contemporary Japan: the case of Aum Shinrikyô; or Ian
Reader, Religion in contemporary Japan
Rey Ventura, Underground in Japan, J 553.2
A companion to Japanese history, edited by William M. Tsutsui, especially last two sections
about Japan after 1945, J 212.71
Gerteis, Christopher, Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in
Postwar Japan. Harvard University Asia Center, 2009
Sabine Frühstück, Uneasy warriors: gender, memory, and popular culture in the Japanese
Army, J 480.16
Patricia L. Maclachlan, Consumer politics in Postwar Japan: the institutional boundaries of
citizen activism, J 563.13
Gavan McCormack, The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence, J 561.12a
Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan, The ambivalent consumer: questioning
consumption in East Asia and the West, F I 180.6
Week 16 (March 8 and 11)
Session 16: Japan's Lost Decades
Lecture: Is Japan a success, a failure or something completely different? Why? What do the
1990s and 21st century bring into the picture? Explain Japan’s lost decades – what does it
mean and what are the roots. Did March 11, 2011 change our perceptions of Japan?
Core Reading
*"Introduction", Examining Japan's lost decades, edited by Yoichi Funabashi and Barak
Kushner, Routledge, 2015.
*Michael J. Green, Igata Akira, "The Gulf War and Japan's National Security Identity",
Examining Japan's lost decades, edited by Yoichi Funabashi and Barak Kushner,
Routledge, 2015.
*Kitazawa Koichi, "The Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Lost Opportunities and the "Safety
Myth"", Examining Japan's lost decades, edited by Yoichi Funabashi and Barak Kushner,
Routledge, 2015.
*Shiraishi Takashi, "Japan's Asia/Asia-Pacific policy in flux", Examining Japan's lost decades,
edited by Yoichi Funabashi and Barak Kushner, Routledge, 2015.
*Seike Atsushi, "Japan's Demographic Collapse and the Vanishing Provinces", Examining
Japan's lost decades, edited by Yoichi Funabashi and Barak Kushner, Routledge, 2015.
*Funabashi Yoichi, "Conclusion: Something has been "Lost" from our Future", Examining
Japan's lost decades, edited by Yoichi Funabashi and Barak Kushner, Routledge, 2015.
* The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station disaster : investigating the myth and
reality / by the Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Nuclear
Accident ; edited by Mindy Kay Bricker, J 573.52
Further Reading
Hayashi Fumio, Edward C. Prescott, "The 1990s in Japan: A lost decade", Review of Economic
Dynamics 2002, pp. 206-235, http://casee.asu.edu/upload/Prescott/2002-Hayashi-REDThe%201990s%20in%20Japan%20A%20Lost%20Decade.pdf
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Paul Krugman, “Japan’s Trap”, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008,
Norton, 2009, 56-76.
Jung Ee Hwan, Cheon Byugn-you, “Economic Crisis and Changes in Employment Relations in
Japan and Korea”, Asian Survey 46/3: 457-476, 2006.
Ono Hiroshi, “Lifetime employment in Japan: Concepts and measurements”, Journal of the
Japanese and International Economies 24: 1-27, 2010.
Song Jiyeoung, “Japan’s Labor Market Reform after the Collapse of the Bubble Economy –
Political Determinants of Regulatory Changes” Asian Survey 50/6: 1011-1031, 2010.
Togo Kazuhiko, "Japanese Historical Memory", Examining Japan's lost decades, edited by
Yoichi Funabashi and Barak Kushner, Routledge, 2015.
Sheila Smith, Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China, Columbia
University Press, 2015.
Bong Youngshik and T.J. Pempel, eds., Japan in crisis: what will it take for Japan to rise
again? J 410.7
Bill Emmott, Rivals: how the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our
next decade, London: Penguin, 2009, G 327.53
*Review Sessions before the final 3-hour exam will be held in late May 2015.