The Rise of Modern Japan
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
<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
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
Mark J. Ravina
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