6640004 Japanese History
| Numbering Code | U-LET23 36640 SJ36 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Year-round | |
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| Number of Credits | 4 | Course Type | Seminar | |
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| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Fri.2 | |
| Instructor name | TANIGAWA YUTAKA (Graduate School of Letters Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | The experiences of people living in modern Japanese society are recorded not only in laws, ordinances, and legislative minutes, but in various forms including media such as newspapers and magazines, private diaries and letters, or records and photographs. The number of items, volume of information, and writers dramatically increased due to rapid improvement in literacy, printing technology, and writing equipment. In addition, even now, new historical materials have continued to be discovered, and are being digitized. In modern Japanese historical research, there is a demand for batches of historical material to be precisely collected in large volumes and diverse forms - official and private documents, manuscripts and printed materials, pencils and pens, Japanese and foreign languages, originals, microfilms, and digital images - and then promptly read and interpreted in-depth. In this seminar, students shall read and comprehend some political petitions in Meiji era, and furthermore collect and study related historical materials. | |||
| Course Goals | Improve skills in "reading comprehension" of historical materials (not just accurately reading characters), and actively seek out relevant historical materials and research literature on a diverse level. Furthermore, deepen individual awareness of topics by grasping modern Japanese history on multiple levels. | |||
| Schedule and Contents |
1st session: Provide guidance and determine historical material assignments to be given to attendees. Presentations are graded on an absolute scale, and consequently, the first session must be attended as assignments are decided upon. 2nd to 30th sessions are scheduled for individual presentations. Furthermore, other historical materials including original manuscripts will be added to be read and comprehended, and some research papers will be selectively read, taking into account attendee abilities. |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy |
Performance (presentations, active participation in discussion. 50%), and papers (50%). Evaluation criteria for papers is whether students argue their opinions logically or empirically using historiographic techniques, based upon accurate reading of historical materials and searching past research. |
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| Course Requirements | Have some historical knowledge of modern Japanese history and the ability of reading old Japanese. | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Attending students should think them on their own. They should be familiar with historical writings and academic books on modern Japanese history so they can organically connect the many pieces of knowledge gained in class. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | Instructed during class | ||
| References, etc. | Introduced during class | |||
