Martin Hart-Landsberg
Office: Albany Complex, Room 206M
Office Telephone: 503-768-7624
Email: marty@lclark.edu
http://www.lclark.edu/~marty/japan.htm
Required Books:
Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan
Koichi Iwabuchi, Recentering Globalization
Gavan McCormack, The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence
Paul Burkett and Martin Hart-Landsberg, Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle
Readings:
I. Introduction
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a. Jared Diamond, "Japanese Roots," Discover, Vol. 19, No. 6, (June 1998). [R] b. Gordon, “Introduction” in A Modern History of Japan. c. McCormack, "Introduction," in The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence. d. Burkett and Hart-Landsberg, "Introduction," in Development,
Crisis, and Class Struggle. |
II. Tokugawa to World War II
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a. Gordon, Chapters 1-4 in A Modern History of Japan. b. Gordon, Chapters 5-8 in A Modern History of Japan. c. Martin Hart-Landsberg, Chapters 1 and 2 in Korea: Division, Reunification, and U.S. Foreign Policy. [R] d. Gordon, Chapters 9-13 in A Modern History of Japan. |
III. Post WWII Japan: Rise and Fall of an Economic Model
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a. Burkett and Hart-Landsberg, Chapters 5-9 in Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle. b. Keith Cowling and Philip R. Tomlinson, "The Japanese Crisis-A Case of Strategic Failure?" Economic Journal, June 2000. [R] c. Burkett and Hart-Landsberg, Chapter 10, in Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle. d. Paul Burkett and Martin Hart-Landsberg, The Economic Crisis in Japan:
Mainstream Perspectives and an Alternative View, Critical Asian Studies,
September 2003, http://www.lclark.edu/%7Emarty/japancas.pdf |
IV. Post WW II Japan: Political and Social Dynamics
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a. Gordon, Chapter 14 in A Modern History of Japan. b. John W. Dower, "A Message from the Showa Emperor," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, October-December 1999. [R] c. Gordon, Chapters 15-17 in A Modern History of Japan. d. McCormack, Chapters 1-3 in The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence. e. Apichai W. Shipper, “The Political Construction of Foreign Workers in Japan,” Critical Asian Studies, March 2002. [R] |
V. Japan in the World
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a. McCormack, Chapters 4-6 in The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence. *b. Mariko Asano Tamanoi, “War Responsibility and Japanese Civilian Victims of Japanese Biological Warfare in China,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, July-September 2000. [R] *c. “Feature: Military Comfort Women,” Critical Asian Studies, December 2001. [R] d. Iwabuchi, Recentering Globalizaton. e. Chalmers Johnson, “Japan and the Economics of the American Empire,” in Blowback, The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (2000). [R] f. Chalmers Johnson, “Okinawa: Asia’s Last Colony,”
in Blowback, The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (2000).
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VI. What Lies Ahead?
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a. McCormack, “Concluding Remarks” in The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence. b. David McNeill. “Confessions of a Foreign Correspondent,”
Japan Policy Research Institute, November 2003, http://www.jpri.org/Critique/crit10.7.htm |
Selected Web Sites:
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General Resources: Pacific Asia Resource Center at http://www.parc-jp.org/parc_e/index.html News Sources: |
Grading:
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Note: If you have a disability that may impact your academic performance, you should request accommodations by submitting documentation to the Student Support Services Office on the ground floor of Templeton Student Center across from the Cashier (x7191). Once that office notifies me of the accommodations for which you are eligible we can meet to decide how best to proceed. You should begin this process as soon as possible. Your final grade will be based on the following three factors (with percentage weighting): 1. Attendance and participation (25%). Attendance is required; missed classes will lower your grade. Required readings must be completed before the class session for which they are assigned. You are expected to actively participate in and contribute to class discussions. 2. The quality of your notebook writings (45%). You will do a series of short writing assignments (normally from one to five pages each) that must be kept in a separate notebook. Some writings may take place in class. Some may be shared with other students. Late assignments will be penalized with a reduced grade. While individual assignments may be checked and graded at the time they are turned in, your complete notebook of assignments--including a final summary essay--will receive an overall grade. 3. Final paper (30%). You will write a term paper that will be due on the date of our final exam. Late papers will lose one letter grade for each day that they are late. |
Created by: marty@lclark.edu
Updated: December-04