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B.S. in Actuarial Science

Otterbein University Course Catalogs

2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HIST 3350 - Modern Japan

Hours: 4
This class will study the formation and rise of Japan as a nation-state, covering the period from 1600 to the present. Students will focus primarily on the last 150 years of Japanese history, learning why the Tokugawa government fell and how Japan reinvented itself as a modern power with overseas colonies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The course will examine the path to the Second World War, the U.S. occupation, and the political, cultural, and social history of post-war and post-occupation Japan. Students will discuss the historiography of modern Japan, examining not only how different historians writing in English have approached seminal historical events such as the Meiji Restoration but also how trends in American politics have shaped the ways in which Japan has been researched, written about, and understood in the U.S.