Course Title:
Global Japan
Course Description:
Examines the history of Japan in regional and global context from prehistory to recent times. Topics include the archaeological record of archaic East Asia, the incorporation of Japan into the cultural zone in the sixth to eighth centuries C.E., Japan as a center of Buddhism, early contacts with Europe in the sixteenth century, Japan as an early-modern East Asian empire, state formation under European influence in the late nineteenth century, imperialism, colonialism, war and defeat, and the rise of Japan as a global economy in the twentieth century. Readings in primary and secondary sources are in English translation.
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