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  Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi Wins 2016 Nobel Prize

  Content

  Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in the field of Physiology or Medicine for his discovery and elucidation of mechanisms underlying autophagy, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components.
  

• The Age of the Middle Class

  Resource

  Historian McClain traces the impact of middle-class lifestyle and taste on Japanese culture in the early 20th century.
  

• Timeline of Modern Japan (1868-1945)

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• Timeline of Religion and Nationalism in Meiji and Imperial Japan

  Resource

  A timeline of religion and nationalism in Meiji and Imperial Japan.
  

• Rights and Responsibilities: Looking at the Meiji Constitution

  Lesson

  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.
  

• Japan's Rapid Rise and Fall, 1868-1945

  Unit

  Japan “modernized” in the late 19th century, but “modernization” meant empires and colonies as well as industrialization and representative government, leading ultimately to destruction on a scale never before experienced on the archipelago. In five lessons using a wide variety of sources, ranging from the visual arts to political documents, this unit examines the reasons behind these rapid changes and how these changes affected the fabric of life in Japan.
  

• Shifting Perceptions: Japan and the World in the Late 19th Century

  Lesson

  This lesson concentrates on enhancing students’ ability to utilize documents such as maps, artwork and primary source materials to interpret history. This is accomplished via an investigation of changing perceptions of Japan by Asia and the international community as a result of Japan’s changing political and social landscape following the First Sino-Japanese War.
  

• Changing Times, Changing Styles: New Japanese Literary Styles of the Late 19th Century

  Lesson

  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.
  

• Individual and Society: Natsume Sôseki and the Literature of the Early 20th Century

  Lesson

  The place of the individual in society is a significant issue in understanding Meiji Period Japan. In reading and discussing the novel Sanshirô by Natsume Sôseki, students will consider the ways in which Japanese writers of the period reflected larger societal trends, and, more generally, how individuals react to societal change.
  

• The "I" Novels in the Context of Early 20th-Century Japan

  Lesson

  Focusing on developing students’ understanding of how a writer's background affects the way he or she writes about personal experience, this lesson utilizes the literary works of Shiga Naoya and Hayashi Fumiko to show how “I novels” provide insight into both the authors’ backgrounds as well as their reflections on problems of human existence and social life.
  

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