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 HIS 373/573,
CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
CLASS SCHEDULE

CONCLUDING THE COURSE OF STUDY
(FOUR SESSIONS) 

MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2002:  
ROLE PLAYING EXERCISE: CONTEMPORARY JAPAN

MOCK PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY DUE

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2002:  
ROLE PLAYING EXERCISE: SEARCHING FOR ROOTS  

QUIZ SIX (ECONOMICS AND POLITICS) DUE

INTERNET DISCUSSION ONE REOPENED FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2002:  
CLASS DISCUSSION: JAPAN 2002   DISCUSSION: Japan 2002 in the Light of History   

READING:  

 
ARTICLES:
  • The '90s and Beyond" (The Wall Street Journal, January 30, 1989: 3 pages)
  • "Foreign Students Sense Discrimination" (Voices of Japan, January 1983: 1 page)
  • "Japan's Unmelted Minority Talks Up" (The New York Times, May 5, 1986: 1 page)
  • "Japan Isn't Ready for Illegal Aliens But It Has I 00,000" (The Wall Street Journal, undated: 2 pages)
  • "Racism in Japan" (Emerge, July / August 1993: 2 pages)
  • "Working Their Way to a Sudden Death" (Japan Times Weekly, January 14 - 20, 1991: 1 page)
  • "Invisible Class" (The Wall Street Journal, June 2, 1992: 1 page)
  • "Prejudice and Black Sambo" (Time, August 15, 1988: 1 page)
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"Is Japan Still the Future?", WIRED 9.09, September 2001.

RESEARCH ESSAY DUE

INTERNET DISCUSSIONS ONE, THREE AND TEN CLOSED

MONDAY, MAY 6, 2002 (1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.):
COURSE EVALUATION SESSION

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT FOUR DUE
 
COURSE EVALUATION FORM DUE

INTERNET DISCUSSIONS ONE, THREE AND TEN CLOSED 

  CLASS SCHEDULE:
| THINKING ABOUT JAPAN | CODES OF CONDUCT | SOCIETY | POPULAR CULTURE | CULTURAL HERITAGE | THE POSTMODERN | EDUCATION, THE ECONOMY AND POLITICS | CONCLUDING THE COURSE OF STUDY |
 

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 Spring Semester of the 2001 - 2002 Academic Year; please contact him with any comments by email at l.makela@csuohio.edu.  
 last revised: May 6, 2002