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Course Overview: Japan and Comparative Politics (This will be an "on demand" class video on Course Power.) |
事前学習/Preparation |
No readings
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes
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授業計画/Class |
Models of the Policy-Making Process
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Hague, Rod and Martin Harrop. 2010. Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction, 8th edition. New York : Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 18: 367-385.
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes
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授業計画/Class |
Budget Policy and the National Debt
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Suzuki, Takaaki. 2000. Japan's Budget Politics: Balancing Domestic and International Interests. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Chapter 1: 3-22.
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes
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授業計画/Class |
Industrial Policy and the Future of Government Intervention
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Gao, Bai. 1998. “The Search for National Identity and Japanese Industrial Policy, 1950-1969.” Nations and Nationalism 4, 2: 227-245. Hall, Derek. 2004. “Japanese Spirit, Western Economics: The Continuing Salience of Economic Nationalism in Japan.” New Political Economy 9, 1: 79-99.
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes
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授業計画/Class |
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Takegawa, Shogo. 2010. “Liberal Preferences and Conservative Policies: The Puzzling Size of Japan’s Welfare State.” Social Science Japan Journal 13, 1: 53–67.
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes and study for Quiz #1
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授業計画/Class |
Energy Policy and the Future of Nuclear Power |
事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Kingston, Jeff. 2014. “Abe’s Nuclear Renaissance: Energy Politics in Post–3.11 Japan.” Critical Asian Studies 46, 3: 461–484.
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes
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授業計画/Class |
Immigration Policy and the Ageing Society
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Chung, Erin Aeran. 2010. “Workers or Residents? Diverging Patterns of Immigrant Incorporation in Korea and Japan.” Pacific Affairs 83, 4 (December): 675-696. Schoppa, Leonard. 2010. “Exit, Voice, and Family Policy in Japan: Limited Changes despite Broad Recognition of the Declining Fertility Problem.” Journal of European Social Policy 19, 5: 422–432.
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事後学習/Reviewing |
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授業計画/Class |
Education Policy and Patriotic Education
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Cave, Peter. 2013. “Japanese Colonialism and the Asia-Pacific War in Japan’s History textbooks: Changing Representations and Their Causes.” Modern Asian Studies 47 (2): 542-580. Tawara, Yoshifumi. 2015. “The Abe Government and the 2014 Screening of Japanese Junior High School History Textbooks.” The Asia-Pacific Journal 13 (16) 2: (April 27): 1-13.
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes and work on paper assignment
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授業計画/Class |
Japan’s Grand Strategy
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Samuels, Richard J. 2007. “Securing Japan: The Current Discourse.” Journal of Japanese Studies 33 (1) (Winter): 125-152.
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes and work on paper assignment
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10
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授業計画/Class |
The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Bilateral Relations
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Congressional Research Service, Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress, October 1, 2019 Samuels, Richard. 2009. “Wing Walking: The US-Japan Alliance.” Global Asia 4, 1 (Spring): 16-21.
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes, work on paper assignment, and study for Quiz #2
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授業計画/Class |
The Evolution of Japan’s Security Policy
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Hughes, Christopher. 2009. “Japan’s Military Modernisation: A Quiet Japan-China Arms Race and Global Power Projection.” Asia-Pacific Review 16, 1: 84-99. Oros, Andrew. 2015. International and Domestic Challenges to Japan’s Postwar Security Identity: ‘Norm Constructivism’ and Japan's New ‘Proactive Pacifism.’ The Pacific Review 28, 1:139-160.
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes and work on paper assignment
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授業計画/Class |
Japan’s Postwar Diplomacy
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Hook, Glen, et al. 2012. Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security. New York: Routledge. Chapter 2, Section 2.2: 24-35; Section 2.3: 36-68. |
事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes
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授業計画/Class |
South Korean-Japanese Relations
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: Wiegand, Krista. 2015. “The South Korean–Japanese Security Relationship and the Dokdo/Takeshima Islets Dispute.” The Pacific Review 28, 3: 347-366. Lind, Jennifer. 2015. “Making Up Isn't Hard to Do: How Japan and South Korea Can Move On.” Foreign Affairs (March 15).
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes
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授業計画/Class |
Sino-Japanese Relations
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事前学習/Preparation |
Readings: He, Yinan. 2013. “Forty Years in Paradox: Post-normalization Sino-Japanese Relations.” China Perspectives 4: 7-16. Hafeez, Sanaa Yasmin. 2015. “The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Crises of 2004, 2010, and 2012: A Study of Japanese-Chinese Crisis Management.” Asia-Pacific Review 22, 1: 73-99.
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Review class notes
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15
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授業計画/Class |
Review for Final Exam and Closing Thoughts
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事前学習/Preparation |
No readings Prepare for final exam
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事後学習/Reviewing |
Prepare for final exam
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