Course Title:
			
				Contemporary Japan
			
		 
		
			Course Description:
			
				Examines Japanese society, economics, and politics from the institution of the American Occupation until the end of the century. Emphasis is on the rebuilding of Japan after the war, the rise of a thriving consumer culture in the 1970s, Japan’s emergence as an economic superpower in the 1980s, urban culture, the LDP, Japanese-American relations, and the status of Koreans and other minorities.
			
		 
		 
		
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