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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Asian Studies
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Nissim Otmazgin
Coordinator Office Hours:
Thursday, 14:30-15:30
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Nissim Otmazgin
Course/Module description:
An introduction to modern Japan
Course/Module aims:
To introduce the institutions, processes and people who influenced the rise of modern Japan since the mid-nineteen century.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To understand the institutions and processes which influenced the rise of modern Japan and locate them within wider historical context.
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures, reading assignments, watching movie clips
Course/Module Content:
The transformation from an agrarian society to a modern country, the challenges of modernization, the development of political and social institutions, the Japanese imperialism in Asia, the Pacific War, the American occupation of Japan, democracy and conservatism, historical memory, economic
Required Reading:
1. שילוני, בן-עמי. יפן המודרנית: תרבות והיסטוריה. (ירושלים ותל אביב: הוצאת שוקן, 1997). or
Gordon, Andrew. Modern History of Japan: from Tokugawa Times to the Present. (NY: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Ferejohn, A. John and Rosenbluth M. Frances, “War and State Building in Medieval Japan,” in War and State Building in Medieval Japan. Edited by John Ferejohn and Frances Rosenbluth (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), pp. 1-20.
Dunn, J. Charles. Everyday Life in Traditional Japan. (Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 1972), pp. 146-190.
Craig, M. Albert. Choshu in the Meiji Restoration. (NY: Lexington Books, 2000), pp. 9-26, 167-207
Fukuzawa Yukichi, An Argument for Leaving Asia, English Translation available at the course website.
Gluck Carol, “Patterns of the Past: Themes in Japanese History,” in Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching. Edited by T. Embree and Carol Gluck (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1994), pp. 723-771.
Duus, Peter. The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995), pp. 29-65.
קובנר, רותם. המערכה הנשכחת: מלחמת רוסיה-יפן ומורשתה. (תל אביב: מערכות, 2005), עמ’ 61-96.
מדזיני, מירון. מפורט ארתור עד הירושימה: עלייתו ונפילתו של המיליטריזם היפני. (ישראל: משרד הביטחון, 2006), עמ’ 11-61.
Sims, Richard. Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation, 1868-2000. Kuala Lumpur: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 123-178.
The Suiheisha Declaration, 1922. English Translation available at the course website.
מדזיני, מירון. מפורט ארתור עד הירושימה: עלייתו ונפילתו של המיליטריזם היפני. (ישראל: משרד הביטחון, 2006), עמ’ 98-125
Caprio, E. Mark. Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea 1910-1945. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2009), pp. 81-110.
Cemil Aydin, “Japan’s Pan-Asianism and the Legitimacy of Imperial World Order, 1931–1945,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, posted in March 12, 2008.
Mimura, Janis, "Japan’s New Order and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: Planning for Empire," The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Vol 9, Issue 49 No 3, December 5, 2011
ג’ון, טונלד. השמש העולה: שקיעתה ונפילתה של הקיסרות היפנית 1936-1945. (כפר חב"ד: מערכות, 1985), עמ’ 11-32, 131-177.
Goto, Ken’ichi. Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World. (Singapore: Ohio University Press, 2003), pp. 3-23.
Shillony, Ben Ami. Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), pp. 7-43.
שילוני, בן עמי. "הפצצה האטומית וכניעת יפן על רקע פתיחתה של המלחמה הקרה," היה היה: במה צעירה להיסטוריה, 2009, גיליון 7 (סתיו), עמודים 105-118.
Dower, W. John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. (NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000), pp. 33-64.
Hein, E. Laura, “Growth Versus Success: Japan’s Economic Policy in Historical Perspective,” in Postwar Japan as History, edited by Andrew Gordon (Berkely and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 99-122.
Kenley, David, “History and Memory: The Role of War Memorials and Museums in China and Japan,” Education About Asia, 2009, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 5-11.
Sugimoto, Yoshio. An Introduction to Japanese Society. (Hong Kong: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 136-192
Uno, S. Kathleen, “The Death of ‘Good Wife, Wise Mother’?” in Postwar Japan as History, edited by Andrew Gordon (Berkely and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 293-322.
Gluck, Carol, “Top Ten Things to Know about Japan in the Early Twenty-First Century,” Education About Asia, 2008., Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 5-11.
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 80 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 20 %
Other 0 %
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