Special Lecture on Global Society III

Headline ( & Class Schedule) Week 1(4/8): Setting the Stage: What is imperialism? Was Japan threatened by imperialism? Week 2( 4/15): Japanese Immigration in the Early Meiji Period: Was Expansionism the National Strategy? Week3(4/22): The Development of Japan’s Colonial Empire Week 4( 5/13): Japan’s Industrialization: The Cotton Textile Industry Week 5(5/20): Road to the Asian Pacific War Week6(5/27): The Outbreak of the Asian Pacific War and its Impact on Japanese People in the U.S. Week7(6/3): Feminism and the Eugenics Movement in East Asia Week 8(6/10): Solidarity among Colored People?: Pan-Asianism vs. Black Internationalism Week 9(6/17): The Post-War Period: Japan under the U.S. Occupation Week10.(6/24): The Cheju-do Rebellion and the Origins of the Korean War Week 11(7/1): The Outcome of the Korean War and the Repatriation of Korean Residents in Japan Week 12(7/8): Present-Day Controversies: Japanese School Textbooks and the Comfort Women Week 13(7/15): Environmental Crisis: The Fukushima-daiichi Nuclear Power Incident and Its Impact & wrap-up

Course Requirements: The format of this course will be short lectures with frequent discussions and presentations. All students are expected to read the assigned articles and books thoroughly before class and prepare questions for class discussions. Each student is also expected to give one presentation based on close and careful readings of course materials. In addition to books and articles, the assigned materials will include YouTube videos and other media. Discussion Questions During class discussions, all students are required to ask one question about the assigned readings (articles, chapters). Final Paper Students should write a 6-7 page paper based on themes relevant to this course. Before starting to write this paper, you must submit a brief synopsis. The final paper is due on July 15. Language Used in Class: English

Grade Evaluation Active participation in class : 25 % Discussion questions: 10 % Oral presentation: 20% Paper synopsis: 5% Final paper: 40% The class participation grade will be based on students’ preparation for and contributions to class discussion.

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Course Materials(1/2): Aydis Cemil. “ Japan’s Pan-Asianism and the legitimacy of Imperial World Order, 1931-1945.” The Asian Pacific Journal, 3-6, March 3, 2008. Azuma Eiichiro. “ Pioneers of Overseas Japanese Development”: Japanese Americans History and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan.” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 67, No.4(November )2008: 1187-1189. Best Anthony. “ The Anglo-Japanese Alliance and International Politics in Asia, 1902 -23.” Anthony Best ed. The International History of East Asian, 1900-1968: Trade, Ideology, and the Quest for Order. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. pp. 21-34. Bill Mihalopoulos. “ Women, Oversea Sex Work and Globalization in Meiji. The Asian Pacific Journal, 35-1-19, August 26, 2012 Chan Sucheng. “Changing Fortunes, 1941to 1965,” Asian Americans: An Interpretive History. New York and London: Twayne Publishers, 1991. pp. 121-142. Cheju-do Rebellion. www.columbia.edu/~hauben/jeju/Jeju_Island_1945-1946. Cumings Bruce. Korean’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Selections. Duus, Peter. “ The Origins of Meiji Imperialism,” Abacus and the Sward: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. pp.1-25. ————. “ Defining the Koreas: Images of Domination, “ Abacus and the Sward: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.397-423. ————. “Zaikabo: Japanese Cotton Mills in China, 1895-1937,” Japan’s Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937. Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. pp. 65-100. Gordon, Andrew. “ Social, Economic , and Cultural Transformations,” A Modern History of Japan. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp.94-114. Hicks, George. “ The Comfort Women” in The Japanese Wartimes Empire, 1931-1945. Duus, Myers, and Peattie eds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp.305-323. Holt Thomas. “ Race and Racism, “ Encycropedia of American Political History, ed. Jack O. Green, p.1044. Horn Gerald., Facing The Rising Sun: African Americans. Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity. New York: New York University Press, 2018( selections). Huffman L. James, Japan and Imperialism, 1853-1945. Ann Arbor, MI , Association for Asian Studies, Inc, 2017. pp.1-21. Inokuchi Hiromitsu.” Korean Ethnic Schools in Occupied Japan, 1945-52.” in Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin. Sonia Ryang , ed. New York: Routledge, 2000, pp.140-150. Irokawa, Daikichi. The Culture of the Meiji Period. Translated by Jensen Morris, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985 (selections). “Japanese Interment Camp,” http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation. Jacob Robert, “On Forgetting Fukushima,” The Asian Pacific Journal. 5-1-14, March 3, 2016. Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. “ Freedom and Homecomings: Narratives of Migration in the Repatriation of Zainichi Koreans to North Korea.” Diaspora Without Homeland: Being Koreans in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.39-61. Otsubo Sumiko and Bartholomew James, “ Eugenics in Japan: Some Ironies of Modernity, 1883-1945,” Science in Context II, 3-4(1998), pp.545-565. Selden Mark and Nozaki Yoshiko, “ Japanese Textbook Controversies, Nationalism, and Historical Memory: Intra-and Inter-national Conflicts,” The Asian Pacific Journal , 24-5-7, June 15, 2009. Shimizu Hiroshi. “ Karayuki-san and the Japanese Economic Advance into British Malaya, 1870-1920.” Asian Studies Review. Volume 20, 1997-Issue 3, pp. 107-132.

Course Materials(2/2): Smethurst Richard J. “Japan, The United States, and the Road to World War II in the Pacific.” The Asian Pacific Journal 37-4-10, Sep. 9, 2012. Szpilman W.A. Christopher and Sven Saaler. “Pan-Asianism as an Ideology of Asian Identity and Solidarity, 1850-Present.” The Asian Pacific Journal , 17-1-9, April 25, 2011. Van De Ven Hans. “ Bombing, Japanese Pan-Asianism and Chinese Nationalism” Anthony Best ed. The International History of East Asia, 1900-1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order. pp. 99-117. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. pp. 99-117. Yuehtsen Juliette. “Better Science and Better Race?: Social Darwinism and Chinese Eugenics,” A Journal of History of Science Society,VD Dec.105(4), 793-802. Supplemental Readings: Gallicchio Marc. The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia,1895-1945. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000(selections). Kearney, Reginald. Afro-American Views of the Japanese: Solidarity or Sedition? Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1998( selections). Merril John. “The Cheju-do Rebellion.” https://www.slideshare.net/burnebok/ppt-the-chejudo-rebellion Marston Daniel. “ Stop over the Pacific.,” Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2005. pp. 15-28. Woodruff D. Smith. European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1982 (selections). A list of readings will be provided on the first day of class. Since this syllabus is worked out in advance as a guide to the course. I reserve the right to modify it if it is necessary. Should a change be made, an announcement will given in advance.