GBPGBP (Global Business Program)

The course explores topics in the history of Japan-U.S relations from a global perspective. In recent years, global history has revealed complex interactions between goods, ideas, services, finance, and people across nation states and regions. By incorporating the framework of global history, the course will aim to reexamine the relationship between Japan and the U.S. by paying special attention to the interactions of individuals with different objectives and backgrounds in the Asia-Pacific region.　

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
●Understand the historical development of Japan – U.S. relations from a global perspective.
●Critically read and analyze both secondary scholarship and primary historical documents on Japan-U.S. relations by incorporating the framework of global history.

英語 / English

The class consists of lectures, class discussions, and student presentations.

あり / Yes

なし / No

授業形態/methods of teaching：オンライン/online

※各回の授業形態は予定です。教員の指示に従ってください。

1[オンライン/online]：Introduction

An overview of the course.

2[オンライン/online]：Whaling and the Meiji Restoration

Reading assignment: “Western Whalers in 1860s’ Hakodate: How the Nantucket of the North Pacific Connected Restoration Era Japan to Global Flows”

3[オンライン/online]：The Pacific at the Crossroads 1

Reading assignment: Ch.7 of Guardians of Empire: The U. S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940

4[オンライン/online]：The Pacific at the Crossroads 2

Reading assignment: “Who Closed the Sea? Archipelagoes of Amnesia between the United States and Japan”

5[オンライン/online]：Japan under the U.S. Occupation

Reading assignment: “Exporting democracy? American Women, ‘Feminist Reforms,’ and Politics of Imperialism in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952”

6[オンライン/online]：U.S. Military Bases in Japan

Reading assignment: “The Soundproofed Superpower: American Bases and Japanese Communities, 1945–1972”

7[オンライン/online]：Consuming Japan in the 1980s U.S. 1

Reading assignment: “A Medium but Not a Message: The VCR and Cultural Globalization”

8[オンライン/online]：Consuming Japan in the 1980s U.S. 2

Reading assignment: “Authenticity in a Hybrid World: Sushi at the Crossroads of Cultural Globalization”

9[オンライン/online]：The Practice of Analyzing Primary Sources and a Quiz

The Assigned primary documents

10[オンライン/online]：Presentation(s): Group or Individual 1

Theme: Japan-U.S. relations from a global perspective 1 – Immigration

11[オンライン/online]：Presentation(s): Group or Individual 2

Theme: Japan-U.S. relations from a global perspective 2 – Diplomacy and Politics

12[オンライン/online]：Presentation(s): Group or Individual 3

Theme: Japan-U.S. relations from a global perspective 3 – Culture

13[オンライン/online]：Presentation(s): Group or Individual 4

Theme: Japan-U.S. relations from a global perspective 4 – Economics

14[オンライン/online]：Wrap up

Summary of the course

Students are required to read all the assignments and be ready for class discussions and presentations. University guidelines suggest preparation and review should be around two hours a week for a two-credit course.

Weekly reading assignments are uploaded to the course website (Hoppii – student information management system).

◎Sebastian Conrad, What is Global History? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017).
◎Pedro Iacobelli, Danton Leary, Shinnosuke Takahashi, eds, Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
◎Robert Hellyer and Harald Fuess, The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Brian McAllister Linn, Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902–1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
◎Lon Kurashige ed., Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings (University of Hawaii Press, 2017).
◎Mire Koikari, Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa: Women, Militarized Domesticity, and Transnationalism in East Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
◎Sarah Kovner, Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012).
◎Nick Kapur, Japan at the Crossroads : Conflict and Compromise after Anpo (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018).
◎Andrew C. McKevitt, Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

・Class participation 30%
・In-class primary document analysis quiz 10%
・Presentation 30%
・Primary document analysis essay 30%

Based on the grading criteria set by the instructor, students that successfully achieve 60% or more of course goals will be able to earn a passing grade for the course.

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ITC devices such as laptops and tablets.