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The Rise of Modern Japan

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English
Duration & workload

5 hours 55 minutes
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Level

Beginner

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<p>Discover how a nation devastated by World War II engineered an economic miracle only to face new challenges in a complex, modern world.</p>

Syllabus

01: Japan’s Global War Vision Unravels
02: How the US Occupation Remade Japan, 1945–1952
03: The Japanese Economic Miracle: Empire 2.0
04: Japan’s Civil Society Protests of 1960
05: Japan Inc. and Its Upstart Challengers
06: Japan Faces the Nixon Shocks: China and Gold
07: The Rise of Japanese Cinema
08: How Japan’s Carmakers Outmaneuvered Detroit
09: From the Heights of Japan’s Bubble Economy
10: Jobless and Divorced in Japan: “Wet Leaves”
11: Japan Confronts the Collapse of a Bubble
12: Japan after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
By This Professor

Taught by

Mark J. Ravina

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