History of Japan

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History of Japans Modernization Japans
modernization trajectory
Todai, October 04-March 05 Plan
bibliography
Alain-Marc Rieu Professor, University of Lyon III
- Jean Moulin Senior Research Fellow, Institute
for East-Asian Studies (CNRS) Visiting Professor,
Tokyo University
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I. Plan

1. Introduction
2. Pre-modernization
3. Knowledge mutation around the mid-19th century
4. The shape of Japans future.
5. Japans Modernization process. The first
   encounter with democracy.
6. Modernity in Japan the early 20th century
7. Japans second experience of democracy the
   Taisho era
8. The rise and shape of Japan hyper-nationalism
9. The 1942 project of overcoming Modernity
10. The catastroph and after. Post-war Japan and
    the third experience with democracy
11. Japan on top Japans rise to first class
    economy the 1970ies and 1980ies
12. Japans post-modernity the collapse of Japans
    bubble the lost decade, the grand transition
13. Where is Japan going? Democracy, Technology and
    Japans future.

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II. Remarks on the bibliography

• The course is based on my book Savoir et pouvoir
  dans la modernisation du Japon, Paris, PUF, 2001
  (Knowledge and Power in Japans Modernization).
• The bibliography is huge and easily available, in
  Japanese and in many other languages. There are
  many (often conflicting) Japonologies.
• Each one of you is asked therefore to build his
  own bibliography and to discuss his findings
  during the class.
• Before each course, I will indicate the books
  and/or articles to which I will refer and which
  students should read. This should not limit your
  own inquiry.

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III. BibliographyIntroduction to Japanese Studies

• Andrew Gordon, A modern history of Japan from
  Tokugawa times to the present, Oxford University
  Press, 2003.
• E. Herbert Norman, Japans emergence as a modern
  State  political and economic problems of the
  Meiji period, New York, Institute of Pacific
  Relations, 1940.
• Cambridge History of Japan.
• Excerpts Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, Modern
  Japanese thought, Cambridge University Press,
  1998.
• Texts Tsunoda, de Bary and Keene, Sources of
  Japanese tradition, New York, Columbia University
  Press, 2 volumes, 1958.

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III. BibliographyPre-modernization

• Conrad Totman,Early modern Japan, Berkeley,
  University of California press, 1993.
• Nakane Chie Oishi Shinzaburo, Tokugawa Japan
  the social and economic antecedents of modern
  Japan, Tokyo University press, 1990.
• Further readings
• Matsumoto Shigeru, Motoori Norinaga, Cambridge,
  Harvard University press, 1970.
• Harry Harootunian, Things seen and unseen,
  University of Chicago press, 1988.

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III. Bibliography3. Knowledge mutation around
1850.

• Najita Tetsuo, Visions of virtue the Kaitokudo
  merchant academy of Osaka Chicago University
  press 1987.
• T. Morris-Suzuki, The technological
  transformation of Japan, Cambridge University
  press, 1994.

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III. Bibliography4. The shape of Japans future
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III. Bibliography5. Japans Modernization process

• The three drunkard,
• Fukuzawa
• Meirokusha

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III. Bibliography6. Modernity in Japan

• Comparing with Europe see Fritz Langs films
• Soseki and Ogai
• The incident

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III. Bibliography7. Taisho era as transition

• See my book

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III. Bibliography8. Japans hyper-nationalism

• The German connection Nishida, Watsuji and the
  Japanese Heidegerians
• Yoshimoto
• Official texts, etc

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III. Bibliography9. The 1942 project Overcoming
modernity

• Harotunian
• Texts themselves

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III. Bibliography10. The catastroph and after

• Dower, Embracing defeat,

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III. Bibliography11. Japan on top 70ies and
80ies

• The developmental State Chalmers Johnson
• Japan Inc, etc
• Karel
• The response to the Energy Crisis of the 70ies
  where does it come from?

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III. Bibliography12. Japans Post-modernity
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III. Bibliography13. Where is Japan going?

• La doc fr.