Modern History of Japan
Fall 2011
Syllabus
2012/02/02
Ryoichi Imai
International Student Center, Kyushu University
imryoichi@isc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
http://homepage3.nifty.com/ronten/JTWhome.htm
Contents
2. Organization, Attendance, and Other Requirements
The course is designed to provide some introductory knowledge of Japanese history. The course will cover the history of Japan's political and economic system from Edo era to the end of World War II.
Organization, Attendance, and Other Requirements
Students are expected to buy the text book.
Gordon, Andrew (2003), A Modern History of Japan. Oxford University Press.
Some lecture notes will be uploaded on this website. The course consists mainly of a series of lecture given by the instructor. Depending on the number of the students who register this course, they may present some selected reading materials in the late half of the course. Each course attendant is supposed to do at least ONE oral presentation of the reading assignments. The presenter must make a set of PowerPoint slides. If too many students take this course, individual presentations will be replaced by group ones. There is one final examination, closed-book or take-home.
None.
Class Attendance and Discussion 20%
Presentation 40%
Midterm or Final Examination 40%
Schedule and Readings (subject to Change)
Part 1. Crisis of the Tokugawa Regime
2. Social Economic Transformations
3. The Intellectual World of Late Tokugawa
4. The Overthrow of the Tokugawa
Part 2. Modern Revolution, 1968-1905
7. Social Economic, and Cultural Transformations
Part 3. Imperial Japan from Ascendance to Ashes
10. Extra
Winter Break
Students' Presentations: Review of the History of Ancient and Mediaeval Japan
Readings: chapters from A
History of Japan, 2nd edition, by Conrad Totman
Underlines show the leaders.
11 (1/10). Ch. 4. Establishing the Ritsuryo Order
(672-750), pp. 60-86.
Presenters: Dasom, Ucky,
Hung, Amanda, Sky
12 (1/17). Ch. 5. Ritsuryo Adaptation and Decay (750-1250), pp. 87-113.
Presenters: So Yeong, Joohee. Jung Yeon, Tova, Nicole
13 (1/24). Ch. 6. Classical Higher
Culture (750-1250), pp. 114-139.
Presenters: Jenny, Maylene, Kinadeter, Jung Yeon
14. (1/30, Monday). Ch. 7. The
Centuries of Disorder (1250-1550), pp. 146-174.
Presenters: Jenny, Hillebrecht, David, Daniel
15. (1.31). Ch. 8. Medieval Higher
Culture (1250-1550), pp. 175-202.
Presenters: Amanda, Maria, Perna, Joseph, Thomas
16. Final Exam (might be replaced by a Take-Home Exam)
Readings for 2009
Ch. 4. Establishing the Ritsuryo Order (672-750), pp. 60-86.
Ch. 5. Ritsuryo Adaptation and Decay (750-1250), pp. 87-113.
Ch. 6. Classical Higher Culture (750-1250), pp. 114-139.
Ch. 7. The Centuries of Disorder (1250-1550), pp. 146-174.
Ch. 8. Medieval Higher Culture (1250-1550), pp. 175-202.