Postgraduate Course: State, Society and National Identity in Japan after 1989 (ASST11075)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will map out and interrogate the contours of continuity and change in Japanese society from 1989 to the present. |
| Course description |
1. Studying post-cold war Japan: legacies of the past
2. Politics and the economy after 1989: towards a new 'system'?
3. Shifting state, individual relations in post-1989 Japan: risk and human security
4. Questioning the nation at the end of the 20th century
5. Neo-conservative tendencies in Japanese society and education policies
6. The Demographic Shift: Japan's Aging Society
7. Difference and multiculturalism in the 'New Japan': Japan's minorities
8. Japan's New Working Class : the advent of a kakusa-shakai?
9. Gender 1: Women and the Economy
10. Gender 2: (Re)producing Gender in Japan
This course will map out and interrogate the contours of continuity and change in Japanese society from 1989 to the present. The first section covers major political, societal and identity related shifts in Japan at the end of the Cold War. This sets the stage for a thematic section, which zooms in on specific cases of identity and difference in contemporary Japanese society, including questions of ethnicity, class, age and gender. This approach will enable students to build both synchronic and diachronic knowledge of the relationship between state, society and identity in post-Cold War Japan.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Formative Assessment Hours 5,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One 4000 word essay (100%)
Formative Assessment:
One 1000 word article analysing a Japanese news item related to one of the course themes.
Articles are due in Friday Week 6 and should be handed into the LLC postgraduate office. You will receive verbal and written feedback on your summary in time for your summative assessment.
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| Feedback |
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Discuss major changes in Japanese politics, society and identity since the end of the Cold War
- Critically apply analytical concepts such as 'risk' 'identity' and 'difference' to Japan, as well as use those concepts elsewhere
- Present detailed, evidence-based arguments both in oral and written form
- Quickly locate, utilise and critique relevant literature
- Use knowledge acquired from the course to appraise news media and popular discourses on Japanese society
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Reading List
Segers, R.T., 2008, A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century: an Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes. London: Routledge.
Gaunder, A., 2011, The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Politics. London: Routledge.
Sugimoto, Y., 2010, An Introduction to Japanese Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Gordon, A., ed., 1993, Postwar Japan as History. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | SSNIJ |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Christopher Perkins
Tel: (0131 6)50 4174
Email: Chris.Perkins@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Charlotte McLean
Tel: (0131 6)50 4114
Email: cmclean9@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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