HISTORY 346: MODERN JAPANESE HISTORY

M W 2:30 – 3:50 PM

Maxey 312

Dr. Brian Dott

SCHEDULE

TOKUGAWA
Wed. 8/31:   Introductions & Reunification of Japan

Mon. 9/5:     The bakuhan system
                   Reading:      Pyle, Ch. 1-3

Wed. 9/7:     Popular Culture
                   Reading: Anne Walthall, “Narratives of Peasant Uprisings,” Journal of Asian Studies (5/1983) via J-Stor

                                  Diana Wright, “Severing the Karmic Ties that Bond: The ‘Divorce Temple’ Mantokuji,”

                                                          Monumenta Nipponica (1997) via J-Stor

 

Mon. 9/12:   Tokugawa as early-modern Japan
                   Reading:      Pyle, Ch. 4
                                      Lu, Ch. X: #1-7 (incl. intro. pgs. 273-5)
                                      Library Reserve: Moriya “Urban Networks,” in Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents                                               of Modern Japan, ed. Chie Nakane and Shinzaburō Ōishi      [2 photocopies of chapter + book]
                   1st Source Analysis Due (on Lu, X: #1-7)

 

Wed. 9/14:   Choshu, Satsuma & Perry
                   Reading:      Pyle, Ch. 5-6
                                      Lu, Ch. X: #8-9, 14-15

 

MEIJI
Mon. 9/19:   Meiji “Restoration”
                   Reading:      Pyle, Ch. 7-8
                                      Lu, Ch. X: #11, 16, 17

 

Wed. 9/21:   Geography Quiz
                   Meiji “Restoration” cont.
                   Reading:      Gluck, Ch. 1-2
                                      Lu, Ch. XI: #2, 7

 

Mon. 9/26:   Ukiyo-e
                   Reading:      Gluck, Ch. 3-4

 

Wed. 9/28:   Japanese Imperial Democracy
                   Reading:      Gluck, Ch. 5
                                      Lu, Ch. XI: #17, 19

 

Mon. 10/3:   Creation of Japanese Empire
                   Reading:      Pyle, Ch. 9
                                      Gluck, Ch. 6
                                      Lu, Ch. XI: #13

Wed. 10/5:   Meiji Modernization
                   Reading:      Gluck, Ch. 7-8
                                      Lu, Ch. XI: #10; Ch. XII: #2, 3, 8

Thurs. 10/6: 4:00 pm Discussion with Carol Gluck

 

Mon. 10/10: Mid-semester break, no class

 

 

“TAISHO DEMOCRACY” THROUGH WWII

 

Wed. 10/12: “Taisho Democracy” and Hara Kei
                   Reading:      Pyle, Ch. 10-11

 

Fri. 10/14: Paper on Gluck’s Modern Myths due (in my mailbox by 5:00 pm)

Mon. 10/17: Japanese Foreign Policy in the 1920s
                   Reading:      Lu, Ch. XIII: #1, 3-8
                                      Library Reserve:  Hane, Peasants, Rebels, Women & Outcastes: “Rural Women” [photocopies + book]

 

Wed. 10/19: The World Depression and Japanese Military Adventurism
                   Reading:      Lu, Ch. XIII: #9-16; Ch. XIV: #1
                                      Library Reserve: Hane, Peasants, Rebels, Women & Outcastes: “Women Rebels” [photocopies + book]

 

Mon. 10/24: Mid-term exam

Wed. 10/26: “Greater East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”
                   Reading:      Lu, Ch. XIV: #4, 7, 11, 12
                                      Library Res:  “Earth & Soldiers” in Modern Japanese Literature by Donald Keene [photocopies + bk]
                                      First-hand account of the Nanjing Massacre by NY Times reporter

Mon. 10/31: War in the Pacific
                   Reading:      Library Reserve:  Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan: Intro. & Ch. 7 [photocopies + book]

 

Wed. 11/2:   Road to Pearl Harbor
                   Reading:      Iriye, 1-73

 

Mon. 11/7:   Changing Tide in the War
                   Reading:      Iriye, 73-123

 

Wed. 11/9:   Surrender
                   Reading:      Iriye, 125-146, 158-169
                                      Gluck, Ch. 9 (Epilogue)
                                      Lu, Ch. XIV: #13-16; Ch. XV: #1
                                      A-bomb documents:  excerpts from Stimson diaries.     Stimson was US Sec. of War

                                                "S-1" = Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bombs

                                                skim through following selections, note decisions about Kyoto, Emperor, potential loss of                                                       life from invasion of Japan, & a-bombs:        Stimson Papers Part 5 May-June 1945

                                                                                                                             Stimson Papers Part 8

                                                                                                                             Stimson Papers Part 9

 

POST-WAR PERIOD

 

Mon. 11/14: Occupation
                   Reading:      Pyle, Ch. 12
                                      Lu, Ch. XV: #2-4, 6, 9, 11-12
                                      John Dower, “Triumphal and Tragic Narratives of the War in Asia,”

                                                                   Journal of American History (Dec. 1995) via J-Stor

 

Wed. 11/16: Reverse Course & LDP
                   Reading:      Pyle, Ch. 13
                                      Lu, Ch. XV: #17; XVI: #1-2

Thanksgiving Break No Classes

Mon. 11/28: Security & Economy
                   Reading:      Pyle, Ch. 14-15
                                      Lu, Ch. XVI: #4-6, XVII: #1, 3-5, 9, 12

 

Wed. 11/30: “The Illusion of Homogeneity”
                   Reading:      Library Reserve: Lie, Multiethnic Japan: “Introduction” & “Ch. 4”  [photocopies & book]
                                      Library Reserve: Field, In the Realm of a Dying Emperor, pgs. 177-214. [photocopies & book]
                   2nd Source Analysis Due (on selections from Field)

Mon. 12/5:   Women in Post-War Japan
                   Reading:      Library Reserve: Liddle & Nakajima, Rising Suns, Rising Daughters, Ch. 27 [photocopies & book]
                                      Library Reserve: Mackie, Feminism in Modern Japan, Ch. 8 [photocopies & book]

 

Wed. 12/7:   Japan in East Asia and the World
                   Reading:      Pyle, Ch. 16
                                      Lu, Ch. XVIII: #8-9

 

Fri. 12/9: WWII Paper Due (in my mailbox by 5:00 pm)