Mr. Michael H. Lee

Time: 6:30-8:15 pm, Mondays;

This course will explore Japan's nationalism in the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on the postwar period since 1945.It will cover various manifestations of nationalist sentiment in Japan: ultra-nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s, the ethnic nationalism of left-wing intellectuals in the 1960s, cultural nationalism in the 1970s and 80s, and nationalism of revisionist historians in the 1990s.We will try to understand Japan's nationalism in its political, socio-economic, cultural and international context, and will offer comparison with societies such as China as well.

Introduction: The Question of Nationalism in Contemporary Japan

Japan's Encounter with the"West" and the Creation of the Nation

National Identity and National Symbols --"Against Coercion: Refusing toStand for 'Kimigayo'"

China, Japan, South Korea—Historical Memories

Anthony Smith, Nationalism, Chapter 1 (5-20); John Hutchinson &
Anthony Smith, Nationalism, Chapters 7, 10, 12 & 14 (36-46, 63-70, 76-83, 89-96); Gordon Mathews, Eric Kit-wai Ma, & Tai-lok Lui, Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation, Chapter 1 (1-21).

Eric Benner,"Japanese National Doctrines in International Perspective"  in Naoko Shimuzu, ed., Nationalisms in Japan, 9-40;
Irokawa Daikichi,"The Emperor System as a Spiritual Structure" in Irokawa, The Culture of the Meiji Period, 245-259, 280-287; 
StefanTanaka, Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History, Chapter 1 (31-67);

Matsumoto Sannosuke,"National Mission" in Marlene J. Mayo, ed., The Emergence of Imperial Japan: Self-Defense or Calculated Aggression?, 55-67;
Eri Hotta, Pan-Asianism and Japan's War, 1931-1945, Chapter 1 (19-52); Cemil Aydin, The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions  of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought, Chapter 7 (161-189);
MasaoMaruyama,"Theory and Psychology of Ultra-Nationalism," in Maruyama, Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics, 1-24.

Kevin M. Doak,"What Is a Nation and Who Belongs?  National Narratives and the Ethnic Imagination in Twentieth-Century Japan," in The American Historical Review, Vol. 102, No. 2 (April 1997), 283-
309;
Sheldon Garon,"Saving for 'My Own Good and the Good of the Nation': Economic Nationalism in Modern Japan," in Sandra Wilson, ed., Nation and Nationalism in Japan, Chapter 7 (97-114);
Bruce Stronach, Beyond the Rising Sun: Nationalism in Contemporary Japan, Chapter 4 (91-128).

Kosaku Yoshino, Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan, Chapter 9 (185-202);
Haruni Befu, Hegemony of Homogeneity, Chapters 5 & 6 (86-104,105-122);
Brian J. McVeigh, The Nature of the Japanese State, Chapter 2 (15-43).

Helen Hardacre, Shintō and the State, 1868-1988, Chapters 7 (133-159);
JohnNelson,"Social Memory as Ritual Practice: Commemorating Spirits of the Military Dead at Yasukuni Shinto Shrine" in The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 62, no.2 (2003), 443-467;
Tetsuya Takahashi,"The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine" in Naoko Shimuzu, ed., Nationalisms in Japan, 155-180;
John Breen,"Yasukuni Shrine: Ritual and Memory" in http://hnn.us/articles/printfriendly/12297.html (6-20-05).

Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform,"The Restoration of A National History," 3-7, 16-20;
Gavan McCormack,"The Japanese Movement to 'Correct' History" and Nozoki Yoshiko & Inokuchi
Hiromitsu,"Japanese Education, Nationalism, and Ienaga Saburō's Textbook Lawsuits," Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal,"Identity Transnationalization in German School Textbooks," all in Hein and   
Selden, eds., Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany and the United States, 53-73, 96-126, 127-149.

Denise Cripps,"Flags and Fanfares: The Hinomaru Flag and Kimigayo Anthem" in Roger Goodman and Ian Neary, eds., Case Studies on Human Rights in Japan, 76-108.

Yoichiro Sato,"Agricultural Nationalism in the Age of Globalization: Japan's Rice Market Opening in the 1990s," in Roy Atarrs, ed., Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization, 34-48;
Ian Condry,"Youth, Intimacy and Blood: Media and Nationalism in Contemporary Japan" and Rumi Sakamoto &. Matt Allen,"Hating 'the Korean Wave' Comic Books: A sign of New Nationalism in Japan?" both available at http://www.japanfocus.org (Article ID: 807, 937).

Arthur Waldron,"Representing China: The Great Wall and Cultural Nationalism in the Twentieth Century," in Harumi Befu, ed., Cultural Nationalism in East Asia: Representation and Identity, 36-60;
Baogang He,"China's National Identity: A Source of Conflict Between Democracy and State Nationalism," in Leong H. Liew and Shaoguang Wang, eds., Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration in China, 170-195;
Toming Jun Liu,"Restless Chinese Nationalist Currents in the 1980s and the 1990s: A Comparative Reading of River Elegy and China Can Say No" in C. X. George Wei and Xiaoyuan Liu, eds., Chinese Nationalism in Perspective: Historical and Recent Cases, 205-232;
Katharine H. S. Moon,"Korean Nationalism, Anti-Americanism, and Democratic Consolidation," in Samuel S. Kim, ed., Korea's Democratization, 135-157

Takashi Yoshida, The Making of the"Rape of Nanking": History and Memory in Japan, China and the United States, Chapters 10 & 11 (129-153, 154-164);
Sebastian Conrad,"Entangled Memories: Versions of the History, Vol. 38 (1), 85-99;
Franziska Seraphim,"Relocating War Memory at Century's End: Japan's Postwar Responsibility and Global Public Culre, in Sheila Miyoshi Jager and RanaMitter, eds., Ruptured Histories: War, Memory and the Post Cold-War in Asia, 15-46.