• The Bubble Economy and the Lost Decade

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  This lesson uses well-know editorials, speeches, and poems to explore the Japanese reaction to the Bubble Economy and Lost Decade.
  

• Japan's Gross National Cool

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  Japan is reinventing superpower—again. Instead of collapsing beneath its widely reported political and economic misfortunes, Japan’s global cultural influence has quietly grown. From pop music to consumer electronics, architecture to fashion, and animation to cuisine, Japan looks more like a cultural superpower today than it did in the 1980s, when it was an economic one. But can Japan build on its mastery of medium to project an equally powerful national message?
  

• Doppo - Unforgettable People

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  Translations by literary scholar Jay Rubin of five short stories by Kunikida Doppo, an important late 19th century fiction writer who played a key role in creating a "modern" language for literature.
  

• Unforgettable People

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  Translations by literary scholar Jay Rubin of five short stories by Kunikida Doppo, an important late 19th century fiction writer who played a key role in creating a "modern" language for literature.
  

• EARLY JAPAN (50,000 BC - 710 AD)

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  Historian Martin Colcutt of Princeton University provides an overview of Early Japanese history.
  

• Japan's Medieval Age: The Kamakura & Muromachi Periods

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  Historian Martin Colcutt outlines the turbulent period between the mid-12th & mid-16th centuries in Japan.
  

• Nara and Heian Japan (710AD - 1185 AD)

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  In this article, Martin Colcutt of Princeton University provides an introductory overview to the Nara and Heian periods of Japanese history.
  

• The Epoch of Unification (1568-1615)

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  J.S.A. Elisonas, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of History at the University of Indiana-Bloomington, provides his interpretation of how Japan transformed from a divided land of constant warfare to a unified, relatively peaceful land during the years 1568-1615.
  

• The Polity of the Tokugawa Era

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  J.S.A. Elisonas, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of History at the University of Indiana-Bloomington, explains the nature of the Tokugawa polity, which featured a political system that survived for over two centuries.
  

• Benshi and the Introduction of Motion Pictures to Japan

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  Scholarly article exploring the history of silent film and their narrators in late 19th and early 20th Century Japan. Using the history of film, the article introduces key concepts regarding the integration of foreign ideas and technologies into Japan. Originally published in Monumenta Nipponica and reproduced with permission.
  

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