Modern Japan, 1600-1945

Undergraduate

This course examines Japanese history from the Tokugawa era (1600-1868) through to the end of the Pacific War. Topics to be covered include: samurai and chonin (townspeople) cultures; the political structure of the shogun's government (bakufu); the Meiji Restoration; the failure of Taisho democracy in the 1920s; and Japanese imperialism in Asia ending with the war in the Pacific, 1937- 1945. Prerequisite(s): 12h History courses.