JAP330 Nationalism in Japan

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Bc. Mgr. Jakub Havlíček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Japanese Studies Centre – Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 11:40–13:15 zruseno D21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is aimed to develop the knowledge of main principles of Japanese national identity. It is concentrated on the period from 1868 to 1945. The lectures deal with different topics connected to the process of forming Japanese national identity, such as the influence of political concepts of Western (non-Japanese) origin, the role of public opinion in Japanese state after 1868, the development of the role of the emperor, or the concept of kokutai.
At the end of the course students will be able to
define the basic principles in development of Japanese national identity;
locate the development of basic principles of Japanese national identity in the history of modern Japan;
interpret the principles of Japanese national identity in connection to social and political development of modern Japan;
sketch the historical development of the concepts of Japanese national identity;
evaluate the role of the principles of Japanes national identity in the history of modern Japan.
Syllabus
  • 1. Nationalism in Japan - terms and concepts, Japanese terms;
  • 2. Influence of Wetern ideas;
  • 3. Origins of nationalism in modern Japan – historical background I;
  • 4. Origins of nationalism in modern Japan – historical background II;
  • 5. Concepts of the people of Japan, „public opinion;
  • 6. People's Rights Movement;
  • 7. Role of the emperor, the concept of kokutai I;
  • 8. Role of the emperor, the concept of kokutai II;
  • 9. Meiji Constitution, Imperial Rescript on Education;
  • 10. Japanese nationalism in 1930’s and during the WW II;
  • 11. Nationalism after 1945;
  • 12. Final discussion.
Literature
  • Hudson, Mark: Ruins of Identity. Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. Honolulu:University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
  • Morris-Suzuki, Tessa: Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation. New York: M.E. Sharpe 1998.
  • Hardacre, Helen: Shinto and the State, 1868-1988. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
  • O'Brien, David M. – Ohkoshi, Yasuo: To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
  • Befu, Harumi: Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2001.
  • BELLAH, Robert Neelly. Imagining Japan : the Japanese tradition and its modern interpretation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, 254 s. ISBN 0520235983. info
  • Nation and religion : perspectives on Europe and Asia. Edited by Peter van der Veer - Hartmut Lehmann. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999, vi, 231. ISBN 0691012326. URL info
  • JUERGENSMEYER, Mark. The new Cold War? : religious nationalism confronts the secular state. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1993, xiv, 292. ISBN 0520086511. info
  • ANDERSON, Benedict R. O'G. (Benedi. Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Rev. and extended ed. London: Verso, 1991, xv, 224 p. ISBN 0-86091-329-5. info
  • SMITH, Anthony D. National identity. 1st ed. London: Penguin books, 1991, 226 s. ISBN 0-14-012565-5. info
  • GELLNER, Arnošt. Nations and nationalism (Orig.) : Národy a nacionalismus. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, study projection with commentary, discussion.
Assessment methods
Final written test (score 70% or higher on the final exam). Students are expected and required to attend seminar classes of this course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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