Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations

Topics

• Introduction to the course
• BS & S I: Opening of Japan, beginning of Westernization; Japanese history up to Perry
• BS & S II: How did the Japanese visualize the Americans, and the Americans, the Japanese?
• Facing East, facing West I
• Transition: After Perry: Historical overview of the transition from Perry to Russo-Japanese War
• Group activity
• Social protest and the media
• Imperial democracy
• From Hibiya to Shiseido—Shiseido: consumer culture, cosmopolitanism
• Shiseido & modernity
• Conclusion of “Visualizing Japan” on edX
• Making of “Visualizing Japan” on edX
• Student presentations on the Shiseido assignment
• Student presentations (cont.)
• Visualization and history
• Occupation and Americanism
• Occupation and Americanism (cont.)
• Imperial gaze and royal wedding
• Special guest lecture 1
• Special guest lecture 2
• Imperial gaze and royal wedding (cont.)
• Group project preparation
• Presenting your play about the occupation; also individual consultations on your final project
• “Four Facets of Contemporary Japanese Architecture” — UTokyo MOOC
• Individual consultation for the final paper
• Student presentation
• Student presentation (cont.)