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Course Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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EAST 132 - Modern Japan


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS, CD

This course surveys Japan’s modern transformation from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to the present. It examines how political, social, and economic modernization were simultaneous projects while considering their impact on the lives of citizens at home and imperial subjects abroad. We focus on how economic volatility, popular struggles for representative democracy, war, and colonization represent aspects of Japan’s twentieth century experience as well as widely shared dilemmas of modernity.

Enrollment Limit: 35
Instructor: E. O’Dwyer

Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with HIST 160.



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