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FALL 2006 |
email: rloftus |
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voice mail: 6275 |
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web page: http://www.willamette.edu/~rloftus/ |
office: Walton Hall 144 |
Peter Duus, MODERN JAPAN |
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George Wilson, PATRIOTS AND REDEEMERS: MOTIVES IN THE MEIJI RESTORATION |
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Ronald Loftus, TELLING LIVES: WOMEN'S SELF-WRITING IN MODERN JAPAN |
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Samuel Yamashita , LEAVES FROM AN AUTUMN OF EMERGENCIES |
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FILM: |
Twenty-four Eyes |
Useful Web Links:
For general online resources and chronologies click here. See, also, for modern Japan, here.
Week 1
Aug. 29 |
Introductions/Expectations for Course |
Web Link for Japan's Ancient Past: The Asuka Period |
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The Pattern of Japan's Past |
Duus, Ch. 1 |
Week 2
September 5 |
Establishment of the Tokugawa Regime
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Duus, Ch. 2
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Tokugawa Political and Social OrderSee also the Bushido Page and Samurai Archives |
General Overview of the Samurai classGeneral Overview of Merchant class |

Week 3
12 |
Social, Economic and Cultural ChangeSee some data and images hereSee the Virtual Tour of Edo site Link to images of Edo merchants
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Duus, Ch. 3What does it mean to be modern?For link tp Tokugawa Art Museum click hereClick for replica of wealthy landlord houseSee info on merchant culture |
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Link to Sankin-kotai system andOnline material on Perry and more. |
Link: Coming of PerryTreaty of Kanagawa |
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Crisis in Late Tokugawa/ Coming of the WestThe Tempo Reforms and other Interpretive Questions |
Images of Perry /Black Ships LinkJapan OpenedThe Harris Treaty of 1858 |
Week 4
19 |
Toward RestorationPivotal Moments |
Click here for chronology,Duus, Ch. 4 |
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Useful vocabulary |
The Charter Oath |
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The Meiji RestorationA brief overviewDetailed chronologyImportant Links for the Meiji Restoration |
Article: Thomas Smith, "Japan's Aristocratic Revolution"What constitutes a Revolution?See also, Colin Barker on Marxism and the Restoration |

Week 5
26 |
The Meiji Restoration and Millenarianism: Begin Student Panels on Patriots and RedeemersOn the "Eijanaika" Movement |
George Wilson, Patriots and RedeemersWhat does "Eejanaika" mean? |
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Continue Student Panels on Patriots and Redeemers |
Class Presentations/Discussion on Wilson |
Week 6
First Paper Topic
Oct. 3 |
The Meiji Revolution (I) |
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The Meiji Revolution (II)-VideoOn Industrialization and the Zaibatsu, click here |
The Last Samurai |
Week 7
10 |
The Popular Rights Movement |
Duus, Ch. 5-6FIRST PAPER DUE |
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Women in the
Meiji Period
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Telling Lives , Introduction and Ch. 1 |

Week 8
17 |
Japan's First Industrial RevolutionModern Economic GrowthSee the details on Japan's first major pollution incident, the Ashio Mine Incident |
Duus, Ch. 7; VideoTelling Lives, Ch. 2
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The Rise of Socialism and "Imperial Democracy" |
Duus, Ch. 8-9 |
Week 9
24 |
"Taisho Demokurashii" and PoliticsPower Point Presentation |
Duus, Ch. 10 |
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"Taisho" or the Interwar Years? Japan in the 1920sOn Taisho Women
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Telling Lives , Ch. 3- 4First Student Panles on Telling Lives: Chs. 2, 3, 4 |

The Great Kanto Earthquake, Sept. 1, 1923
Week 10
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Politics and Culture 1918-1932: Taisho Liberalism and IlliberalismKita Ikki's Plan for Reconstruction |
Duus, Ch. 11Handout: article by Henry Smith |
Useful Links: |
Parliamentary Politics 1912-1918 |
Links to Marxism |
Nov. 2 |
Women Writers and Leftwing Ideologies in the 1920s
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Telling Lives, Ch. 5-6Article on Café Waitresses in Taisho JapanSecond Student Panel Presentations: Telling LivesChs. 5, 6 |

Second Paper Topic
Week 11
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The Rise of MilitarismExcellent site on Japan's AggressionThe Manchurian Incident |
Duus, Ch. 12Hull's Four Points |
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The Road to War 1931-1941"Know Your Enemy: Japan" ChronologyMore on MilitarismSome important documentsRelevant Links |
See<Attack on Pearl Harbor>A good gateway site on PH attackSee also an aerial photo of ships on Battleship RowMore on Pearl HarborSECOND Paper Due |

See Web Links on Carrier Battles in the Pacific
Week 12
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The Pacific War 1941-1945Battle of Midway Site |
Duus, Ch. 13-14Read Yamashita Chs. 2-3 |
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See Showakan Exhibits |
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The War in Japanese Eyes: Leaves in an Autumn of Emergencies |
Student Led Discussions Chs 2-3 |
Week 13
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Leaves in an Autumn of Emergencies Chs 4-6THANKSGIVING BREAK |
Discussion Chs. 4-6 in Yamashita |
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Leaves in an Autumn of Emergencies Chs 7-9On the kamikaze special attack unitsMore pilot letters, and stories |
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Week 14
30 |
The War in Japanese Eyes: Twenty-four Eyes (158 minutes) |
General Peace clearing-house pageSome Notes on Ending the Pacific War |
Dec. 5 |
Finish Twenty-four Eyes, Discuss |
Read chapter by James Orr, "'Sentimental Humanism': The Victim in Novels and Films"Ref: See CIA studies on
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Discuss 24 Eyes, Leaves and Orr articleYomiuri series on War Responsibility |
Links on Burma
Campaign
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