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kura (storehouse) at Shikoku Farmhouse Village Museum (2001)

 

 HIS 371 / 571, 
THE HISTORY OF JAPAN


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MEIJI ERA JAPAN

THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2009

[THE MEIJI REVOLUTION (1868) and THE IMPACT OF THE WEST]

ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL LIFE IN MEIJI JAPAN

READING: GORDON, PP 46 - 115
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT FOUR DUE

TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009

DISCUSSION: NATSUME SOSEKI'S KOKORO

READING: NATSUME SOSEKI'S KOKORO (ENTIRE)
SECOND ESSAY DUE (FOR STUDENTS WRITING ON KOKORO)
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT FIVE DUE (FOR STUDENTS WRITING ON THE SOIL: A PORTRAIT OF RURAL LIFE IN MEIJI JAPAN)

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2009

DISCUSSION: NAGATSUKA TAKASHI'S THE SOIL: A PORTRAIT OF RURAL LIFE IN MEIJI JAPAN

READING: NAGATSUKA TAKASHI'S THE SOIL: A PORTRAIT OF RURAL LIFE IN MEIJI JAPAN (ENTIRE)
SECOND ESSAY DUE (FOR STUDENTS WRITING ON THE SOIL: A PORTRAIT OF RURAL LIFE IN MEIJI JAPAN)
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT FIVE DUE (FOR STUDENTS WRITING ON KOKORO)

TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009

MEIJI FOREIGN POLICY AND THE END OF THE
UNEQUAL TREATIES

READING: GORDON, PP 115 - 138

 

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