OSAKA UNIVERSITY SHORT-TERM STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM
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History of Japan and the Western World
Toru TAKENAKA, et al. (School of Letters)
Objective The purpose of this course is to make clear the role the Western impact played in Japanese history and to pick out some topics from the (early-) modern era. The course of Japanese history in the last one and half a century was substantially influenced by the Western world with its economic and military dominance. The lectures of this course will help you understand how the Japanese have been digesting the Western impact and making use of it in the course of modernization.
Textbook and Reference Books
No particular books will be used.
Lecture Outline
Week 1. Introduction: Modern history of Japan and the Western world (Toru TAKENAKA)
Toru Takenaka, Japanese-German relationship in modern times
Week 2. Constitutional influence of Germany on Japan in the Meiji era
Week 3. Cultural influence of Germany on Japan in the Meiji era
Michihito MURATA, Political structure in early modern Japan
Week 4. Structure of the Shogunate-regime
Week 5. Kinai-region in the early modern era
Week 6. Substructure of the rule in the early modern society
Takaaki IKAI, Meiji Restoration
Week 7. Historical situation on the eve of the Meiji Restoration
Week 8. Political process of the Meiji Restoration
Week 9. Western impact on the Meiji Restoration
Satoru AISAKA, Japanese and Germans in the middle of 1960s.
Week 10. Situation of the World in the Middle of 1960s.
Week 11. Situation of Germany in the Middle of 1960s.
Week 12. Situation of Japan in the Middle of 1960s.
Takao FUJIKAWA, White Australian policy and Asia
Week 13. History of international migration from the 16th century to the middle of the 20th century
Week 14. Immigration into Australia and White Australia policy
Week 15. White Australia policy and Japanese reaction
Grading
Class participation 50%
Term paper to be submitted at the end of the course 50%
(Term paper can be connected to only one of the five themes of the course.)
