HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: East Asian Studies

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Dr. Nissim Otmazgin

Coordinator Email: nissim.otmazgin@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Thursday, 14:30-15:30

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Nissim Otmazgin

Course/Module description:
The purpose of the seminar is to introduce advanced research methods in the study of Japanese politics and society.

Course/Module aims:
Assist the advanced students develop their own methodological and theoretical research.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
know the research methods available in the field and advance in their own research.

Attendance requirements(%):
100%

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lectures, reading assignments

Course/Module Content:
Japan's modern politics, economy and society

Required Reading:
Curtis, L. Gerald. The Logic of Japanese Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), pp. 1-23.
Reed, R. Steven. Making Common Sense of Japan. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, pp. 3-76.
Johnson, Chalmers. Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State. N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995, pp. 115-140.
Beeson, Mark. “Developmental States in East Asia: A Comparison of the Japanese and Chinese Experience,” Asian Perspective, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2009), pp. 5-39.
Vogel, K. Steven. Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry are Reforming Japanese Capitalism. . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006, pp. 22-77.
Pempel, T.J., “Between Pork and Productivity: The Collapse of the Liberal Democratic Party,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2010), pp. 227-254.
Tomaney, John, “A New Paradigm of Work Organization and Technology?,” in Post-Fordism: A Reader, edited by Ash Amin. Bodmin: Blackwell, 1994, pp. 157-194.
Castells, Manuel. “Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society,” British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 51, No. 1 (2000), pp. 5-24.
Larimer, Tim, “Japan, Nissan and the Ghosn Revolution,” Chzen Web Journal of International Business, Columbial Business School, Spring 2003.
Mulgan, George Aurelia, “Where Tradition Meets Change: Japan’s Agricultural Politics in Transition,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2 (2005), pp. 261-298.
Lambert, A. Priscilla, “The Political Economy of Postwar Family Policy in Japan: Economic Imperatives and Electoral Incentives,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Vo. 33, No. 1 (2007), pp. 1- 28.
Hirata, Keiko. “Beached Whales: Examining Japan’s Rejection of an International Norm,” Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2004), pp. 177-197.
Flowers, R. Petrice. “Failure to Protect Refugees? Domestic Institutions, International Organizations, and Civil Society in Japan,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2008), pp. 333-361.
Feldman, Offer. The Japanese Political Personality. (Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press LTD, 2000), chapter 2, 7.
Johnson, Chalmers. “Tanaka Kakuei, Structural Corruption, and the Advent of Machine Politics in Japan,” in C. Johnson, Japan: Who Governs? (New York: Norton, 1995), chapter 9.
Garon, Sheldon, “From Meiji to Heisei: The State and Civil Society in Japan,” in The State of Civil Society in Japan, edited by Frank J. Schwartz and Susan J. Pharr.New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 42-62.
Shipper, Apichai. Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and its Impact on Japanese Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University press, 2008, pp. 25-58.
Berger, U. Thomas. Culture of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, pp. 193-211.
Suginohara, Masako. “The Politics of Economic Nationalism in Japan: Backlash against Inward Foreign Direct Investment?,” Asian Survey, Vol. 28, No. 5 (2008), pp. 839-859.
Atanassova-Corneilis, Elana. “The Redefinition of Japan’s National Security Policy: Security Threats, Domestic Interests and a Realist-Liberal Approach,” Asia Pacific: Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2008), pp. 17-29.
Sabina, Fruhstuck and Ben Ari, Eyal, “’Now We Show It All!’ Normalization and the Management of Violence in Japan’s Armed Forces,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2002), pp. 1-39.
Samuels, Richard J, “Securing Japan: The Current Discourse,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2007), pp. 125-152.
Pyle, Kenneth B. Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose. Cambridge: Public Affairs, 2007, pp. 340-374.
Gilpin, Robert. Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order. Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2001, pp. 341-361.
Hettne, Björn, “Beyond 'New' Regionalism,” New Political Economy, Vol. 10, No. 4 (2005), pp. 543-571.
Katzenstein, J. Peter. A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005, pp. 104-148
Calder, E. Kent and Fukuyama, Francis. East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. 15-39.
Frost, L. Ellen. Asia’s New Regionalism. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2008, pp. 1-37.
Acharya, Amitav, “Imagined Proximities: The Making and Unmaking of Southeast Asia as a Region,” Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol. 27, No. 1 (1999), pp. 55-76.
Jones, M. David and Smith L.R. Michael, “Constructing Communities: the Curious Case of East Asian Regionalism,” Review of International Studies, Vol. 33 (2007), pp. 165-186.
Otmazgin, Nissim, “Cultural Commodities and Regionalism in East Asia”, Contemporary Southeast Asia,” Vol. 27, No. 3 (2005), pp. 499-523.
Frost, L. Ellen. “Individuals as Spontaneous Integrators,” Chapter 5 in Frost, L. Ellen Asia’s New Regionalism. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.

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Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 20 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 60 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

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