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  Nature and the Environment in Postwar Japan

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  Modern Japan has a particularly fascinating relationship with the environment. Students will explore Japan's seemingly contradictory attitude and actions, characterized both by a profound, self-proclaimed respect for nature along with a proclivity to exploit and degrade the natural environment. Students will use a variety of sources including informational texts, poetry, and traditional and modern art to explore this paradox. They also will evaluate the government's response and the social reprecussions.
  

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  Homeless man in Tokyo

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  Homeless man sleeping on a sidewalk of the Asakusa district of Tokyo in the Fall of 2007.
  

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  Godzilla

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  Picture of Godzilla, both a pop culture icon, and, in its early incarnations, a film and monster with definite political overtones.
  

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  Lighting the Olympic Flame, 1964 Tokyo Olympics

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  Image of Yoshinori Sakai, born in Hiroshima on the day of the Atomic Bombing, lighting the Olympic flame to open the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
  

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  Hiroshima After the Atomic Bombing

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  Japanese Soldiers on Great Wall, 1937

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  Japanese soldiers climb the Great Wall of China during their southern advance on November 5, 1937.
  

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  Students Protest because of Mutual Cooperation and Security Treaty

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  A photo of students tearing down an iron gate outside the residence of Premier Kishi in the month of June, 1960.
  

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  Imperial Hotel Tokyo

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  This is an exteior view of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo, which was built by Frank Llyod Wright.
  

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  Waiting for food rations in Tokyo, September 1945

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  Citizens in Tokyo wait in line for food rations in September, 1945, as hunger and poverty caused tremendous suffering.
  

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  BE024652

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