HIST 335 - THE RISE OF MODERN JAPAN

Hours: 5
This course will explore the emergence of Japan as a modern state from the collapse of the feudal government in the mid-19th century up until the present day. Our study will include such topics as: the social, political, and economic foundations of Japan’s constitutional monarchy; Japan’s responses to, and practice of, imperialism and colonialism in East Asia; the relationships between the development of mass society/culture and authoritarian government in the 1930s and 1940s; American post-war occupation.

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HIST 335 - THE RISE OF MODERN JAPAN