Course: Japanese History 2

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Course title Japanese History 2
Course code ASJ/MDC
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Ulman Vít, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Pazderka Radek, Mgr.
Course content
Topics: 1. Meiji Restauration and transformation of the feudal society 2. Political system in Meiji era 3. Sino-Japanese and Russian-Japanese wars 4. Annexation of Korea, Japan until 1930 5. Japan in the 1930s 6. Japan in World War 2 7. Postwar occupation of Japan, reforms 8. End of occupation, Japan in the 1950s 9. Japan in the 1960s and 1970s (Nixon's shocks, oil crises) 10. Japan at the turn of 1970s and 1980s 11. Bubble economy, Japan in the 1990s, after the end of Cold War 12. The turn of millenia

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
Learning outcomes
This course provides the students with an overview of Japanese history in the 19th, 20th and 21st century - from the late Tokugawa period until present day. The course presents the development of home affairs in Japan, as well as the relations to the Asian continent, and it introduces the East-Asian periodosation.
Upon successful completion of the course students will have a good knowledge of the historical development in Japan from Meiji Restauration until present day.
Prerequisites
The course is designed for students with an interest in modern Japanese history, who do not study Japanese as their major.

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam

written exam (knowledge of basic terminology and names)
Recommended literature
  • (1988). Cambridge History of Japan. Vol.1-6. Cambridge.
  • (1979). Kokushi daijiten (Velký slovník národních dějin). Vol.1-15. Tokyo.
  • Lu, J. (1997). Japan. A Documentary History. New York.
  • Mass, J.; Hauser, W. (1985). Bakufu in Japanese History. Stanford.
  • Myers, R.; Peattie, M. (1984). Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton.
  • Reischauer, E.O.;Craig, A.M. (2000). Dějiny Japonska. Praha.
  • Vasiljevová, Z. (1986). Dějiny Japonska. Praha.


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