JAP100 Historie
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
JAP100 History 5.3 Anpo, Shocks, the Bubble, and Beyond
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture will begin with a look at the political turmoil and unrest in Japan during the 1950s and 1960s that were resolved—or at least sublimate...
JAP100 History 5.1 Year Zero Redux: A-Bombs, Surrender, Occupation
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We will start off by looking at the road to surrender, and continue on to the road to reform and recovery. Along the way, we will consider the place o...
JAP100 History: 3.2 Late Meiji, Korea
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture will consist of four distinct parts, arranged only partially in chronological order. The first will consist of a look at some of the less...
JAP100 History 5.2 All We Need is a Miracle (Reverse Course to High Growth and the 1964 Tokyo Games)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture will examine the so-called “reverse course” taken by the American occupiers after 1947; the “1955 system” of rule by the Liberal ...
JAP100 History: 4.2 War, Coprosperity, Defeat
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Manchurian Incident (1931), the establishment of a puppet state in Manchuria (19329, and the decision to leave the League of Nations (1933) change...
JAP100 History: 4.1 The Dark Valley
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will be looking first at developments in Japanese society, starting with the murders and coup attempts of the period of “governm...
JAP100 History (Optional) Gender in Early 20th Century Japan
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A bonus episode about gender roles and politics from Meiji to the 1930s, with a peek into the 1940s.
JAP100 History: 3.3 Interwar Japan
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This class will look at the ups and downs of Japanese history in the first decades of the twentieth century. Japan enjoyed military triumphs, a boomin...
JAP100 History 3.1 Late Meiji Japan
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The first half of this lecture looks at the political, social, and economic changes in Meiji Japan, focusing on the period from 1877 to 1895. Among ot...
JAP100 History 2.2: Meiji Japan
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of our lectures on Meiji, we will begin to examine Japan’s “opening” to the West in the mid-nineteenth century, and the proactive ways...
JAP100 History 2.1: Edo Period Japan
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will complete our look at the premodern period by examining the long peace and relative prosperity under the Tokugawa shoguns.&nbs...
JAP100 History 1: Premodern Japan
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
1. Introduction: Jōmon to 1600 (27 August 2021) Overview This first class will be an overview of premodern Japanese history, from the Neolithic (Jōm...