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Essay: Focusing on Imperial Japan
Experienced teachers know the opening minutes of a class set the tone, both intellectual and atmospheric, for the remainder of the lesson. Scholars well know that the opening lines of a monograph shape how many readers will understand the remainder of the work.
Resource: Russo-Japanese War Postcard
Resource: Woodblock Print of Japanese Imperial Diet
Resource: Timeline of Religion and Nationalism in Meiji and Imperial Japan
A timeline of religion and nationalism in Meiji and Imperial Japan.
Resource: Japanese Prewar 1000 Yen Bill
Lesson: Rights and Responsibilities: Looking at the Meiji Constitution
The Meiji Constitution serves as a starting point for an analysis and debate of the distinctions between rights and responsibilities, as well as the role of the populace in influencing government.
Lesson: Changing Times, Changing Styles: New Japanese Literary Styles of the Late 19th Century
Kunikida Doppo’s story, "Unforgettable People," provides an example of a style of Japanese literature that developed in the 1880s and 90s as a result of encounters with European literature and other changes in the Japanese lifestyle related to the Meiji Restoration. The author(s) of this lesson suggest ways in which a discussion of the impact of this type of cultural contact may be introduced into the classroom.
Lesson: Akutagawa Ryunosuke and the Taisho Modernists
The modernist literary movement is commonly characterized by experimental styles and themes. Literature produced in Japan during the Taisho Period shares many characteristics with this global movement, as students will discover by analyzing literature from this period such as Akutagawa Ryûnosuke’s short story "In a Grove," (1922) as well as Kurosawa's film Rashômon (1950), a later film based on Akutagawa’s works.
Question: What should every American high school student know about 20th-century Japan?
Resource: Entrance to the Imperial Hotel (1912-1923), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
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