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2012/09/20 現在

科目基礎情報/Course information
開講元学部/Faculty 国際教養学部/FACULTY OF LIBERAL ARTS
開講元学科/Department
登録コード/Registration Code AHST3530
期間/Period 2012年度/Academic Year   秋学期/AUTUMN
曜限/Period 月/Mon 2 , 木/Thu 2
科目名/Course title MODERN JAPAN*/MODERN JAPAN
教員表示名 SAALER Sven
主担当教員名/Instructor SAALER Sven/SAALER SVEN
単位数/Credits 4
更新日/Date of renewal 2012/02/28
講義概要情報/Course description    [top] [outline] [bottom]
科目サブタイトル
/Subtitle of this course
The Politics of Memory in Modern Japan
講義概要
/Course description
This course will explore issues of memory-making and memory-shaping in modern Japan. After a survey of theories of historical and social memory, we will analyze the main institutions of memory and commemoration in modern Japan, their functions and historical development, as well as important Japanese “realms of memory”, their representation in Japanese culture and controversies surrounding memorialization projects in Japanese society and politics. Apart from examining case studies of Japanese memory institutions, we will also take a comparative look at controversies about historical memory in other countries, above all, in Germany, South Korea, Spain, France and Italy.
The course shall raise the students’ awareness of the importance of issues of historical memory in recent decades and problems emerging from “memory wars” in modern societies. It will also explore the background of the use and abuse of history and its implications for political developments in Japan as well as in international relations. What are the political, ideological and aesthetic presuppositions of memory-making and of representations of history? Who are the major actors in memory-making in modern Japan? What can we say about the relation of the individual and the state through the analysis of the politics of memory?
Excursions to memorial institutions near the university form an integral part of the course. In addition, individual fieldwork on other memorials or museums is strongly encouraged.
他学部・他研究科受講可否
/Other departments' students
可/Yes
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評価基準・割合
/Evaluation
授業参加/Class participation (20.0%)
リアクションペーパー/Reaction paper (30.0%)
レポート/Report (30.0%)
その他/Others(in detail) :presentation 20%
テキスト/Textbook
自由記述/Free Text :Tessa Morris-Suzuki: The Past Within Us. Media, Memory, History. London and New York: Verso, 2005.
Sven Saaler: Politics, Memory and Public Opinion. The History Textbook Controversy and Japanese Society. Munich: Iudicium, 2005.
講義概要HP URL
/URL of syllabus or other
information
http://www.fla.sophia.ac.jp/academics/professors2.php?FacultyID=145

講義スケジュール/Schedule    [top] [outline] [bottom]
授業計画/Class schedule
1.Course introduction and overview

(Updated syllabus including the required readings for each class will be made available on Moodle!!!!)
2.Introduction 1: Historical Memory Issues in Modern Japan and the Modern World
3.Introduction 2: The Global Perspective and “The Age of Commemoration”
4.Introduction 3: Historical Consciousness in Modern Japan
5.Introduction 4: The History Textbook Problem
6.Introduction 5: Historical Memory and International Relations
7.Introduction 6: Apologies for Historical Injustices
8.Introduction 7: Apologies for Historical Injustices (cont.)
9.Introduction 8: War and War Crimes in Historical Memory
10.How to prepare a presentation/How to write a research paper
11.Mid of term course review
12.Institutions of Memory in Japan 1: The National Commemoration Ceremony in Budôkan on 15 August and the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery
13.Institutions of Memory in Japan 2/1: The Yasukuni Shrine 1
14.Institutions of Memory in Japan 2/2: The Yasukuni Shrine 2
15.Institutions of Memory in Japan 3: The Shôwa-kan (Showa Memorial Hall) and the Heiwa Kinen Tenji Shiryôkan (Exhibition and Reference Library for Peace and Consolation)
16.Institutions of Memory in Japan 4: The Edo-Tokyo Museum
17.Institutions of Memory in Japan 5: The Memorial for the Tokyo bombings
18.Institutions of Memory in Japan 6: The Peace Museum in Okinawa and the Cornerstone of Peace
19.Institutions of Memory in Japan 7: The Peace Museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
20.Institutions of Memory in Japan 8: The Yamato Memorial and Yamato movies
21.Institutions of Memory in Japan 9: The Himeyuri Peace Museum in Okinawa
22.Institutions of Memory in Japan 10: The Memorialization of Tokkô/Kamikaze Pilots
23.Course review and research paper counseling
24.Comparative Perspectives 1: Germany
25.Comparative Perspectives 2: Korea and China
26.Comparative Perspectives 3: Italy and Spain
27.Comparative Perspectives 4: Contemporary issues of reparation and reconciliation
28.Final discussion