HIST 122: Modern Japanese History: Culture, Empire and Everyday Life (HC)

This comprehensive anthology collects works of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay-writing from a pivotal time in Japanese history. Print copies also available in Tripod.

Fiction created by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization, dramatic inequality, and imperial expansion. In Japan, literary youth, men and women, sought to turn their imaginations and craft to tackling the ensuing injustices, with results that captured both middle-class and worker-farmer readers. Contextualized by introductory essays, forty expertly translated stories touch on topics like perilous factories, predatory bosses, ethnic discrimination, and the myriad indignities of poverty.

This volume is a study of postwar Japanese education and includes major educational documents that shed new light on this important period and provide a guide to understanding the development of Japanese educational policy. - BOOK JACKET

The author was a member of the British Occupation Force in Japan. During 1946-48, he collected documents which illuminate the attitudes of the Japanese people in the last two critical years of the war and the equally critical first two years of the peace. These materials, some reproduced in facsimile, include personal documents, propaganda, military memoranda and teaching aids.

This is a three-volume set of documents:.
v. 1. Basic documents, 1854-1889.--v. 2. 1844-1882.--v. 3. 1869-1894.

These diaries were written by Japanese who journeyed to America, Europe, and China from 1860-1920. It begins with the first Japanese to be sent abroad when the country was opened after more than two hundred years of isolation. These narratives also provide insight into Japanese society through the diarists' reactions to alien customs, their distaste of "barbarian music", their admiration for American democracy, and their curiosity about the philosophy of Christianity.

This book aims to deepen knowledge of Japanese colonialism(s) by providing translated Japanese sources and analytical essays that illuminate Japan's many colonial projects. The documents highlight how central cultural production and dissemination were to the colonial effort, while accentuating the ways colonialism permeated every facet of life.