• Japan's Encounter with the World: A Basic Reading List

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  Michael Auslin, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, compiles a useful and informative reading list for the secondary school teacher of important historical writings on Japan's encounter with the world, from about 1600-present.
  

• What's the Matter with Saying 'The Orient'?

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  Yale professor Chris Hill argues against using terms like "the Orient" and "the Far East" and offers suggestions for alternatives.
  

• Japan's Response to H1N1 Swine Flu

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  H1N1 swine flu has been dominating the media recently in Japan. This collection of links to both Japanese and American news articles traces the reaction to the outbreak and suggests various ways to cover the topic in class.
  

• Election Update

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• We must do away with economic imperialism

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  The 27-year-old Konoe Fumimaro expressed these apprehensions about Great Britain and the United States not long before he left Tokyo in late 1918 as a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. Despite having made stunning strides economically and militarily over the previous half century, many Japanese remained bitter about the unequal treatment they had received at the hands of the imperialist Western powers. They also resented the discrimination they continued to experience abroad, particularly in immigration restrictions that barred most Japanese from emigrating to the United States.
  

• The Three Unifiers of Sengoku Era Japan

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  Professor Shelton Woods of Boise State University explores the Sengoku Era (1467-1603) of Japan, also as the Warring States Period, and the three men, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who emerged to restore a sense of political, economic, and social calm throughout the realm.
  

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