12 Aug How did Japan embrace Modernity and how did it engage with the outside world? How did the Imperial Democracy come to be?
The exam is 4 essay-like questions. Each response should be a minimum of 500 words and a max of 1000 words.
0 to 3% unoriginality. Do not use the book, write everything in your own words.
Question 1: Provide a detailed evaluation of the Tokugawa Period (1603-1867)- Make sure to discuss culture in Edo, the capital of the shogunate.
Expand by also explaining: a) What were its successes? b) And its failures?
( from Japan History and Culture: From Classical to Cool > Chapters 6 & 7 & from Modern Japan: A History in Documents> Chapters 1 & 2)
Question 2: How did Japan embrace Modernity and how did it engage with the outside world? How did the Imperial Democracy come to be?
( from Japan History and Culture: From Classical to Cool > Chapters 8 & 9 & from Modern Japan: A History in Documents> Chapters 3 & 4)
Question 3: Dark Era- What were the events that led Japan to act on its colonialist desires? How did the government get the Japanese people “on board” with them? (Think Sugoroku and propaganda)
( from Japan History and Culture: From Classical to Cool > Chapter 10 & from Modern Japan: A History in Documents> Chapters 5 & 6 PLUS Sugoroku research projects/analysis)
Question 4: The period between 1945 and 1970 is titled Defeat and Reconstruction by Stalker and Reemergence by Huffman. What are the steps that Japan took to become a world power? What was the role of the Occupying Forces?
( from Japan History and Culture: From Classical to Cool > Chapters 11 & from Modern Japan: A History in Documents> Chapters 7)
Link for Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/fiu/reader.a…
