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HIS 373/573,
CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

ROLE PLAY SOURCES
  • the video series "Portraits of Japan"
  • Gail Bernstein's Haruko's World
  • Theodore Bester's Neighborhood Tokyo
  • Donald Richie's Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese (also titled Geisha, Gangster, Neighbor, Nun: Scenes from Japanese Lives)
  • Elisabeth Bumiller’s The Secrets of Mariko
  • Ronald P. Dore's Shinohata
  • Steven Wardell's Rising Sons and Daughters: Life Among Japan's New Young
  • Karl Taro Greenfeld's Speed Tribes
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This site has been prepared by Lee A. Makela for the use of students at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, who are enrolled in HIS 373/573, Contemporary Japan in Historical Perspective during the Fall Semester of the 2005 - 2006 Academic Year; please contact him with any comments by email at l.makela@csuohio.edu.  
 last revised: August 29, 2005