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HIS 373 /
573, CONTEMPORARY JAPAN IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
SPRING SEMESTER 2002
DR. LEE A.
MAKELA
OFFICE: RT 1908 (216.687.3927)
OFFICE
HOURS: MWF 1:30 - 2:30 PM
AND
BY APPOINTMENT
HOME
PHONE: 216.561.2940
email:
l.makela@csuohio.edu
http://www.csuohio.edu/history/lam.html
SYLLABUS
INTRODUCTION: HIS 373 /
573, CONTEMPORARY JAPAN IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE represents a course of study
designed to introduce contemporary Japanese culture and civilization to an
audience encountering the formal study of Japan for the first time. An analytical
examination of the various component parts comprising life in Japan today
will be conducted against an historical backdrop and (implicitly) in comparison
with contemporary American culture and society; both visual and written resources
will be used as source material for our exploration. Students should expect
to emerge from the course with an historical understanding of the roots of
contemporary Japan, an appreciation of the complexity of modem Japanese life
and culture and the tools of inquiry useful in the historical exploration
of an unfamiliar cultural tradition.
The course web site is located at the following URL [note
the second "a" in "makelaa"]:
http://academic.csuohio.edu/makelaa/history/courses/his373/index.html
ASSUMPTIONS
AND EXPECTATIONS: The following paragraphs are intended to clarify
what is assumed and expected of students enrolled in this course. Often individual
student expectations vary substantially from those of fellow students and
from those of the course instructor. These guidelines are meant to provide
a common ground upon which to build and to avoid misunderstandings that might
otherwise arise. Please read through the guidelines carefully and then
indicate at your earliest convenience (via an email to the instructor) your
understanding and acceptance of these standards.
This
course has been designed with the following set of assumptions and expectations
in mind:
·
This is not the only course in which you are enrolled. In fact
it is assumed each student is typically taking a twelve semester hour course
load, is employed twenty hours per week, and has significant social and family
obligations beyond the university and academic community.
·
Regular and consistent course attendance and participation
is a basic core requirement. Students whose usual personal schedules preclude
on-time arrivals and for whom regular departures must occur prior to the scheduled
conclusion of class time are encouraged to find a more appropriately scheduled
course.
·
As a four credit course, each classroom hour is expected to
be combined with three hours of preparatory reading, writing and reflection,
requiring a commitment of twelve hours weekly (as part of an assumed total
of thirty-six hours of weekly academic involvement for a fulltime student
taking twelve credits per semester).
If you fit the above profile and are willing to make the commitment,
you should find the course challenging but manageable. If not (you may be
working more hours per week, have a set of demanding family obligations beyond
the ordinary, be enrolled for more than twelve hours this semester or regularly
arrive in class after the start of lecture), you should carefully calculate
the cost of trying to work this course into your existing schedule -- ask
yourself, for example, if you are willing to accept a lower (or failing) grade
for not having the time available to be in class or to devote to course expectations
and requirements.
·
Unlike other courses you might have taken in the past, this
course of study is not oriented towards the more-or-less passive acquisition
and mastery of a set body of information as outlined by a specific text or
in instructor-defined lecture materials. Instead the course of study opens
a subject matter area -- the history, civilization and culture of Japan --
within the context of a "learning community". In this setting students
are expected to work actively to define personally-defined interests and to
explore them adequately using the ways and means established by the course
structure -- assigned reading, independent research, written quizzes and essays,
written and oral discussion, formal lectures, video and film presentations,
role-playing exercises. Students will not be expected nor required to march
as part of a single group in lock step towards a predefined set of instructor-defined
goals. Instead each will be asked to define personal learning objectives,
to chart an independent course towards their achievement and to demonstrate
mastery of the general subject matter of the course in a variety of ways to
the satisfaction of the instructor. If you are unwilling -- or unable -- to
undertake this self-motivated, independently-directed, individually-monitored,
active approach to learning, you might be better off in an alternative course
offering utilizing a more compatible and comfortable educational setting.
·
As an upper division History Department offering, this course
assumes students have taken advantage of their earlier fourteen years of schooling
to acquire the essential academic skills needed to assure success. Specifically
these skills include an ability to read a variety of materials with comprehension
and understanding, to write clear and accurate prose, to structure written
and oral communication in an appropriately organized and documented fashion
and to participate willingly and profitably in oral and written discussion.
The course provides an opportunity to hone these skills but not to acquire
them.
·
Access to email and the world wide web -- as well as a basic
level of computer literacy -- also is assumed. Most students already possess
word processing skills (or know someone who does). Furthermore every enrolled
student at CSU has an assigned email address (usually [given name initial].[family
name]@popmail.csuohio.edu); the course web site also features an
internal email system making possible direct contact with the instructor and
fellow students enrolled in this course. On-campus labs, the university library
and many other Cleveland area libraries have public access computers available
with Internet connections. If you own (or have access to) a personal computer
with a modem, you can gain free access to CSU computers by contacting the
Office for Computer Facilities on the eleventh floor of Rhodes Tower. If,
however, these facilities are inconvenient or inadequate to meet your own
personal needs and/or schedule, please consider the impact these circumstances
might have on your ability to meet course expectations and requirements and
take steps accordingly. If any of these essential skills are particularly
weak, you must be prepared to devote extra time and effort to their remediation
in order to accomplish fully what the course requires of you.
·
All upper division courses in the Department of History are
mandated to assign a minimum of 1200 pages of reading material and to require
significant work in the form of research essays, journals, examination responses
and/or other forms of written communication.
·
This specific course furthermore assumes an ability to undertake
independent research on a subject of personal interest related to the specific
content of the course. As a result you should be prepared (with the support
and aid of the instructor as needed and required) to identify an appropriate
subject matter, demonstrate the existence of sufficient specifically-applicable
materials (books, articles, internet web sites) to justify your investigation,
assemble a significantly varied supporting bibliography of consulted sources,
and prepare an appropriately annotated analytical essay discussing the application
of the descriptive results of your research effort to themes developed in
the course itself.
As this set of assumptions and standards indicates, while this
course of study does not demand or expect any prior knowledge of Japanese
history, civilization or culture, it has been built on the premise that the
student undertaking it is equipped adequately with the skills necessary both
to acquire this knowledge base and to put it to the test of analysis and evaluation.
If you meet this profile and are willing to commit yourself actively to the
achievement of the stated course objectives, welcome aboard! If not, you might
more profitably look elsewhere for the educational challenge you seek.
COURSE
OBJECTIVES: At the end of fifteen weeks of instruction, students enrolled
in HIS 373 / 573, CONTEMPORARY JAPAN IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE should be able
to --
·
identify and explain the significance of basic terms, personalities
and concepts associated with the study of contemporary Japanese civilization
and culture.
·
discuss with insight the major characteristics of modern Japanese
social, political, economic and religious systems, institutions and beliefs.
·
discuss with insight aspects of contemporary Japanese popular
culture, the traditional Japanese fine arts and literature as maintained in
Japan today and the impact of the postmodern on both popular and traditional
cultural constructs.
·
characterize the impact of both past traditions and the modern
West on contemporary Japanese life and culture
·
discuss with insight contemporary affairs, issues and problems
(both internal and external) involving Japan.
·
demonstrate control of the tools of inquiry useful in undertaking
the study of any unfamiliar cultural tradition in historical perspective.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: REGULAR CLASS ATTENDANCE, PARTICIPATION
IN DISCUSSION AND ON-TIME SUBMISSION OF ASSIGNMENTS ARE BASIC COURSE REQUIREMENTS
as is the completion of the reading assigned in the accompanying class schedule.
Assigned reading for the course includes Karl Taro Greenfeld's Speed Tribes:
Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation; Stephen Addiss' How to
Look at Japanese Art; Nelly Delay's The Art and Culture of Japan;
and the collection of articles and excerpts on file in the Cleveland State
University library accessible through Electronic Reserve.
In
addition the class will be asked to complete a writing skills assessment survey
and two research assignments: the first, an interpretive essay discussing
- in two parts (descriptive and analytical) -- an aspect of contemporary Japanese
life in historical perspective; the second (including a written personality
profile and a series of public opinion survey questions) requiring each student
to assume a contemporary Japanese personality appropriate to a pair of role-playing
exercises concluding the course of study. An on-going series of journal assignments
must also be completed and shared with the instructor at intervals prescribed
in the syllabus. Students will also be given the opportunity to participate
in a series of Internet Discussions on various topics covered in the syllabus.
There will be periodic quizzes on the assigned reading but no other examinations
required in the course.
SYNOPSIS
OF COURSE REQUIREMENTS (AND EVALUATION CRITERIA):
·
completion of the assigned portions of the required texts (as
demonstrated in the periodic quizzes). [30% of the final grade for the course.]
·
completion of an essay discussing an aspect of contemporary
Japanese civilization in historical perspective. [40% of final course grade]
·
completion of a research assignment exploring a representative
social role in contemporary Japanese life and participation in accompanying
role-playing exercises. [30% of final course grade]
In addition points will be awarded for completion of the following
ungraded course requirements. [A total of 150 points is currently available;
this total may change as the course proceeds.]
·
regular class attendance and in-class participation. [20 points
with 5 points subtracted for each absence, excused or unexcused.]
·
on-time submission of quizzes [2 points for each submission
handed to the instructor during -- or prior to -- the class session in which
the assignment is due or prior to that course session in conjunction with
an excused absence for a possible total of 12 points.]
·
completion of a series of journal assignments designed to access
personal interests and individual insights into course materials and class
sessions. [48 points total with a maximum of 10 for each submitted assignment
and an added 2 points per assignment for on-time submission.]
·
submission of an acceptable Writing Skills Assessment survey
no later than the due date assigned in the COURSE SCHEDULE. [10 points.]
·
submission of a properly completed annotated bibliography of
resources to be consulted as part of the assigned research essay in conjunction
with a description of the project underway (10 points) and a preliminary draft
of the research essay (20 points), both provided to the instructor on or prior
to the due date listed in the CLASS SCHEDULE.
·
participation in online Internet Discussions. [1 point for
each significant contribution -- as determined by the instructor - to a maximum
of 20 points.]
·
submission of an analytical review of a representative contemporary
Japanese feature film. [10 points.]
The
average of completed graded assignments will be multiplied by the points earned
over the course of the semester to obtain the final course grade.
CLASS SCHEDULE
The
course meets on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons between 12:15 p.m.
and 1:20 p.m. in Main Classroom (MC) 103 from Monday, January 14, 2002 through
Friday, May 3, 2002 following the schedule listed below. All assignments are
noted under the dates on which they are due; assigned readings noted in the
schedule under a particular date should be completed BEFORE coming to class.
WAYS OF THINKING
ABOUT JAPAN
(SEVEN
CLASS SESSIONS)
MONDAY,
JANUARY 14, 2002: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
Distribution of Course Materials
An Introduction to the Course and the Course Web Site
Attitude Survey and Journal Assignments
INTERNET
DISCUSSION ONE (IMAGES AND IMPRESSIONS) OPEN
WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 16, 2002: IMAGES, ATTITUDES AND PORTRAITS OF JAPAN
VIDEO:
Portraits of Japan (excerpts)
ATTITUDE
SURVEY DUE
READING
(all reading assignments to be completed BEFORE class meets):
"Snix: the Otaku", Chapter XII in Karl Taro Greenfeld's
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation (New York:
Harper Collins, 1994) [henceforth SPEED], pages 269 - 283.
FRIDAY,
JANUARY 18, 2002: COMING TO TERMS WITH JAPAN I
DISCUSSION: Making Common Sense of Japan -- Questions of Interpretation
and Categories of Meaning
READING: Articles from
Contemporary Japan in Historical Perspective materials on reserve in the CSU
Main Library (To access these articles, go to the following Internet web address:
< http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebj.pdf >. All articles
listed as assigned for a single date are located in the same electronic reserve
file.):
·
"Rewriting the Book on How to Deal with Japan" (Business
Week, August 7, 1989: 1 page)
·
"Book Excerpt: The Enigma of Japanese Power" (Fortune,
May 8, 1989: 4 pages)
·
"Tokyo: The Hard Life" (7he Atlantic, March
1989: 5 pages)
·
"Life in a Box: Japanese Question Fruits of Success"
(The New York Times, January 2, 1994: 3 pages)
· "Guns: One Nation Bars, The Other Requires" "
(The New York Times, March 10, 1997: 2 pages)
· "Japan Bashing: More Than Racism" (Christian Social Action, May 1992: 4 pages)
INTERNET DISCUSSIONS TWO (TERMINOLOGY / CHRONOLOGY /
GEOGRAPHY) AND THREE (NEWS AND RESOURCES) OPEN
MONDAY,
JANUARY 21, 2002: HOLIDAY (MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY)
WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 23, 2002: OSAKA 2001 - JAPAN ON THE EVE OF A NEW MILLENIUM
OSAKA
2001 WEB ASSIGNMENT AND SURVEY DUE
(located at <http://academic.csuohio.edu/makelaa/lectures/osaka/index.html>)
FRIDAY,
JANUARY 25, 2002: COMING TO TERMS WITH JAPAN II
DISCUSSION: Making Common Sense of Japan -- A Continuation
JOURNAL
ASSIGNMENT ONE DUE
INTERNET
DISCUSSION ONE CLOSED
MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2002: JAPAN'S PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
DISCUSSION: The Cultural Influences of Geography
VISUAL LITERACY WEB EXERCISE DUE
(located at <http://www.csuohio.edu/history/exercise/vleintro.html>)
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2002: OUTLINING JAPANESE
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
LECTURE: The Historical Periodization of Japan's Past
DISCUSSION:
The Uses of the Past in the Present
READING:
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebk.pdf
>: "In Search of the Premodern" and "Discovering
Japan's Premodern Heritage" (Japan Echo, Volume XV, Number 4,
1988: 10 pages)
CODES OF CONDUCT
(SEVEN
SESSIONS)
FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 1, 2002 :CODES OF CONDUCT: LANGUAGE
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: Characteristics and Structure of Japanese
as a Language (and the Cultural Consequences Thereof)
QUIZ ONE DUE
READING:
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebl.pdf
>:
·
"Japanese Importing English Words with Surprising Results"
(Knight-Ridder Newspapers, undated: 1 page)
·
"Japanspeak:
Moon Grow Over Tokyo" (Wall Street Journal, December 11, 1984:
1 page)
·
"English
in Japan Not Just Language" (Associated Press, February 1, 1986: 1 page)
·
"Copywrite Japan" (letter from Charlotte Briggs,
April 1987: 4 pages)
·
"Japan's Linguistic Revenge" (Nisho Iwai Journal,
Winter 1995: 5 pages)
INTERNET DISCUSSION FOUR (LANGUAGE) OPEN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2002 :CODES OF CONDUCT: SHINTO I
VIDEO AND DISCUSSION: Shinto: Man, Gods and Nature in Japan
READING:
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebm.pdf
>:
·
"In a
Computer Age, Shinto Devils Still Prowl" (" (The New York Times,
October 15, 1995: 2 pages)
·
"What
Is Shinto?" (lecture by Haken Eilert, January 7, 1986: 7 pages)
INTERNET DISCUSSION FIVE (RELIGION / PHILOSOPHY) OPEN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2002: CODES OF CONDUCT:
SHINTO II
DISCUSSION: The Place of Shinto in Japanese Religion and Culture
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2002: CODES OF CONDUCT:
BUDDHISM I
VIDEO AND DISCUSSION: Land of the Disappearing Buddha
JOURNAL
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE
READING:
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebn.pdf
>:
·
Michael Shapiro,
"Japan: The Spiritual Side" (The New York Time Magazine,
November 23, 1986: 4 pages)
·
"Barren Ground: Christian Missionaries Sow the Seed in
Japan but Find Little Grows" (Wall Street Journal, July 9, 1986:
1 page)
· excerpt from
"Matters of Faith" (CWRU: The Magazine of Case Westem Reserve
University, May 1991: 2 pages)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2002: CODES OF CONDUCT:
BUDDHISM II
DISCUSSION: Buddhism in Japanese Life
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 13, 2002: CODES OF CONDUCT: NEO-CONFUCIANISM
LECTURE: Neo-Confucian Philosophy and Ethics -- Japanese Style
READING:
ARTICLE: "Strict Etiquette Lives On In Japan: Pick A Seat
Wisely" (The Christian Science Monitor, March 6, 1997: 1 page)
FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 15, 2002: ASPECTS OF CULTURE: CALLIGRAPHY
DISCUSSION: The Art of Calligraphy
READING:
Chapter 4, "Calligraphy" in Stephen Addiss' How to Look at Japanese
Art (hereafter ART), pages 76 - 93.
MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 18, 2002: HOLIDAY (PRESIDENTS' DAY)
EXPLORATIONS
OF JAPANESE SOCIETY
(EIGHT
SESSIONS)
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 20, 2002: SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY
LECTURE
AND DISCUSSION: Family Life
RESEARCH
ESSAY TOPIC AND ROLE PLAY CHOICES DUE
READING:
"Tats:
The Speed Tribes", Chapter II in SPEED, pages 17 - 46.
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebo.pdf
>:
·
"New Words
Capture Image Of Japanese Farnily" (The Japan Times Weekly, January
21 - 27, 1991: 2 pages)
·
"Who Needs
Love? In Japan, Many Couples Don't" (The New York Times, 1997:
4 pages)
INTERNET DISCUSSIONS TWO, FOUR AND FIVE CLOSED
INTERNET
DISCUSSION SIX (SOCIETY) OPEN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2002: RURAL LIFE
VIDEO: Farm Song
READING:
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebp.pdf
>:
·
three selections
from Junichi Saga, Memories of Straw and Silk (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1987):
7 pages
·
"Expert Hagiwara Vitalizes Rural Villages" (The
Japan Times Weekly, April 25 - 31, 1994: 1 page)
·
"Tokyo
Lights Lure the Young to Forsake Rural Way of Life" " (The New
York Times, January 2, 1997: 2 pages)
MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 25, 2002: RURAL LIFE II
LECTURE
AND DISCUSSION: Life in Countryside -- Changing Realities
WRITING
ASSESSMENT SURVEY PROJECT ESSAY DUE
READING: Nelly Delay,
THE ART AND CULTURE OF JAPAN, entire
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 27, 2002: URBAN LIFE STYLES I
VIDEO: Neighborhood Tokyo
READING:
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebq.pdf
>:
·
"Tokyo Neighborhood Offers The Good Life" (The
Japan Times Weekly, August 6 - 12, 1990: 1 page)
·
"Japanese Say No to Crime: Tough Measures at a Price"
" (The New York Times, May 14, 1995: 6 pages)
FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2002: URBAN LIFE STYLES II
DISCUSSION: : Urban Expectations and Realities
READING:
"Izumi: The Money-Drinkers" and "Dai: The Motorcycle Thief",
Chapters I and III in SPEED, pages 1 - 16 and 47 - 84.
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2002: THE JAPANESE WOMAN: DEFINITIONS
AND PRACTICES
DISCUSSION of Assigned Readings
QUIZ
TWO (SOCIETY) DUE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2002: "DREAM GIRLS" - A
VIDEO EXPLORATION
FRIDAY,
MARCH 8, 2002: ISSUES OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY
QUIZ
THREE (WOMEN) DUE
READING: "Choco Bon-Bon and Emi: The Perfect Tuna",
"Keiko: The Early Breakfast Club" and "Jackie: The Hostess",
Chapters IV, V and X in SPEED, pages 85 - 114, 115 - 146 and 227 - 244.
MONDAY,
MARCH 11, 2002: NO SCHEDULED CLASS (SPRING RECESS)
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 13, 2002: NO SCHEDULED CLASS (SPRING RECESS)
FRIDAY,
MARCH 15, 2002: NO SCHEDULED CLASS (SPRING RECESS)
ASPECTS OF
JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE
(FOUR
SESSIONS)
MONDAY,
MARCH 18, 2002: ARTIFACTS OF POPULAR CULTURE
DISCUSSION / DEMONSTRATION: Food, Festivals, Popular Music, Fashion, Television Shows and Fads in Contemporary Japan
RESEARCH
ESSAY CONTENT DESCRIPTION AND WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
READING:
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebr.pdf
>:
·
Sex vs. Hamburgers" (The Japan Times Weekly, January
7, 1989: 1 page)
·
"Pay Now, Buy Later" (Journal of Japanese Trade
and Industry, No. 1, 1989: 3 pages)
·
"Grown Men in Japan Still Read Comics and Have Fantasies"
(Wall Street Journal, July 21, 1987: 2 pages)
·
"In Japan,
Brutal Comics for Women" (The New York Times, November 5, 1995:2
pages)
·
"How to Tell Your Vacuum Cleaner Sayonara" (Voices
of Japan, November 1982: 1 page)
·
"After a Hard Day at the Office or the Factory, How Do
the Japanese Relax?" (Asia Record, November 1982: 1 page)
·
"In Japan These Days, Even Processed Cheese Is Cute"
(The Japan Times Weekly, January 28 - February 3, 1994: 3 pages)
·
"Tokyo's Tips for New York" (The New York Times
Magazine, February 6, 1994: 2 pages)
·
"Why Do Japanese People Rarely Use Personal Checks?"
(Japan Information Service, undated: I page)
·
"Pachinko Polishes a Tarnished Image" and "Salons
Reap Chest Hair, Gross Profits" (The Mainichi Daily News, 1994:
1 page)
·
"Japan's Young Couples Discover the Public Kiss"
(The New York Times, May 29, 1995: 1 page)
·
"The Pen Is Mightier Than the Germ?" (The New
York Times, July 27, 1995:1 page)
· "In Japan, Christmas Merrymaking Is for Lovers" " (The New York Times, December 25, 1995: 1 page)
· "Buying
Culture" (Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 6, 1994: 1 page)
INTERNET DISCUSSISON SIX CLOSED
INTERNET
DISCUSSION SEVEN (POPULAR CULTURE) OPEN
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2002: ASPECTS OF JAPANESE POPULAR
CULTURE II
VIDEO AND DISCUSSION: The Japanese Version
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2002: POPULAR CULTURE: THE WORLD
OF MANGA AND ANIME
MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2002: POPULAR CULTURE: ADAPTATION
AND INNOVATION
READING: "Tusk: Twilight of the Idols", Chapter VIII
in SPEED, pages 181 - 198.
JAPAN'S CULTURAL
HERITAGE
(SIX
SESSIONS)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2002: THE WORLD OF
TRADITIONAL JAPANESE DRAMA
VIDEO: The Tradition of Performing Arts in Japan
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2002: LITERARY AND ARTISTIC IDEALS,
VALUES AND SYMBOLS
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: Myth, Fable and Folklore: Symbols in
Japanese Literature and Art
READING:
ARTICLE at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebs.pdf
>:
INTERNET
DISCUSSION EIGHT (ARTS AND LITERATURE) OPEN
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2002: JAPAN'S LITERARY HERITAGE: THE
TALE OF GENJI
VIDEO:
"Japanese History and Literature: Classical Japan"
DISCUSSION:
Literary Symbols in The Tale of Genji
READING:
"Secular
and Zen Painting" and "Woodblock Prints" in ART, pages 54 -
75 and 94 - 115.
ARTICLE at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebt.pdf
>:
WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 3, 2002: JAPAN'S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
SLIDE
LECTURE: Traditional Architecture in Japan
FRIDAY,
APRIL 5, 2002: JAPAN'S CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPE
MONDAY,
APRIL 8, 2002: THE JAPANESE GARDEN
SLIDE
LECTURE: "BEYOND MOSS AND STONE"
VIDEO:
Dream Window
READING: "Gardens", Chapter 6 by Audrey Yoshiko Seo
in ART, pages 116 - 135.
THE POSTMODERN
COMES TO JAPAN
(THREE
SESSIONS)
WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 10, 2002: DEFINING THE POSTMODERN IN JAPANESE CULTURE
DISCUSSION: From Traditional to Postmodem in Japanese Culture
VIDEO:
"Struggle for Hope" (excerpt)
QUIZ
FOUR (CULTURE) DUE
INTERNET
DISCUSSION NINE (POSTMODERN CULTURE) OPEN
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2002: THE POSTMODERN IN LITERATURE
DISCUSSION: A Postmodern Short Story by Haruki Murakami
READING:
ARTICLE at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebu.pdf
>:
MONDAY,
APRIL 15, 2002: ASPECTS OF THE POSTMODERN IN POPULAR CULTURE
RESEARCH
ESSAY PRELIMINARY DRAFT DUE
EDUCATION,
THE ECONOMY AND POLITICS IN TODAY'S JAPAN
(FIVE
SESSIONS)
WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 17, 2002: EDUCATION IN JAPAN
DISCUSSION: Education in Contemporary Japan
READING:
"Hiro and Yoshihara: The Best and the Brightest",
Chapter VI in SPEED, pages 147 - 164.
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebv.pdf
>:
·
"Japan's Education Factory" (Business Tokyo,
April 1990: 5 pages)
·
"In Japan, They even have Cram Schools for the Cram Schools"
(Wall Street Journal, January 13, 1988: 2 pages)
·
"Japan's Schools: Why Can't Little Taro Think?" (The
Economist, April 21, 1990: 3 pages)
·
"True or False: The Japanese Have Exams for Everything"
(The New York Times, March 10, 1997: 1 page)
INTERNET DISCUSSIONS SEVEN, EIGHT AND NINE CLOSED
FRIDAY,
APRIL 19, 2002: EDUCATION FOR SOCIALIZATION - INCULCATING VALUES
JOURNAL
ASSIGNMENT THREE DUE
MONDAY,
APRIL 22, 2002: PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: Doing Business in Japan --Corporate
Life and the "Salary Man"
QUIZ
FIVE (EDUCATION) DUE
INTERNET
DISCUSSION TEN (ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL LIFE) OPEN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2002: JAPAN'S ECONOMY IN INTERNATIONAL
PERSPECTIVE
VIDEO:
The Colonel Comes to Japan
DISCUSSION:
U.S. and Japanese Economic Relations
ROLE
PLAY SURVEY QUESTIONS DUE
READING:
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebw.pdf
>:
·
"Japanese Managers: Are They Really Better?" (Machine
Design, April 23, 1986: 5 pages)
·
"Japan's Got Us Beat in the Service Department, Too"
(Wall Street Journal, 1985:1 page)
·
"Cutting Itself Down to Size: Japan's Inferiority Complex"
(The New York Times, February 6, 1994: 2 pages)
·
"Fortress of Mercantilism Still Wary of Competitors"
(Insight, July 18, 1988: 3 pages)
·
"Don't Blame the Japanese" (The New York Times
Magazine, April 19, 1986: 4 pages)
FRIDAY,
APRIL 26, 2002: POLITICAL LIFE IN TODAY'S JAPAN
LECTURE
AND DISCUSSION: Political Life, Past and Present
READING:
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makebx.pdf
>:
·
The Tremor" (The New Republic, August 9, 1993:
4 pages)
·
"Japan's Powerful Pencil-Pushers Are on Defense"
(The New York Times, May 8, 1997: 4 pages)
ROLE
PLAY AUTOBIOGRAPHY DUE
CONCLUDING
THE COURSE OF STUDY
(FOUR
SESSIONS)
MONDAY,
APRIL 29, 2002: ROLE PLAYING EXERCISE: CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
WEDNESDAY,
MAY 1, 2002: ROLE PLAYING EXERCISE: SEARCHING FOR ROOTS
QUIZ SIX (ECONOMICS AND POLITICS) DUE
INTERNET DISCUSSION ONE REOPENED
FRIDAY,
MAY 3, 2002: JAPAN 2002 IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
DISCUSSION: Japan 2002 in the Light of History
RESEARCH
ESSAY DUE
READING:
ARTICLES at < http://ecr.ulib.csuohio.edu/2/make/makeby.pdf
>:
·
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)
·
"Prejudice and Black Sambo" (Time, August
15, 1988: 1 page)
· "Invisible Class" (The Wall Street Journal, June 2, 1992: 2 pages)
·
"Racism in Japan" (Emerge, July / August 1993:
2 pages)
INTERNET
DISCUSSIONS ONE, THREE AND TEN CLOSED
MONDAY,
MAY 6, 2002 (1:00 PM - 3:00 PM): COURSE EVALUATION SESSION
JOURNAL
ASSIGNMENT FOUR DUE