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Aug 1, 2021

HIEA 112 Post #3

This week’s main theme is complicity — that is, how did ordinary Japanese people become implicated (consciously or not) in the act of inflicting colonial violence? Consider this question from the readings for lecture 7. Is there a link between someone like Ayako in Mizoguchi’s Osaka Elegy and Koizumi Kikue…

Hiea 112

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Hiea 112

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Jul 25, 2021

HIEA 112 Post #2

Think about the relationship between post-World War One capitalist crisis (elaborated by Young), transformations in colonial policy (examined in lecture 6), and new conflicts that emerged between colonial subjects and ordinary Japanese people as a result. …

Hiea 112

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HIEA 112 Post #2
HIEA 112 Post #2
Hiea 112

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Jul 15, 2021

HIEA 12 Week 2

The Ainu are an ethnic group native to the Hokkaido region of Northern Japan with distinct physical features, culture, and language than Japanese people. If I were an Ainu person who lived through the Tokugawa regime’s takeover of my ancestral homelands, I would not be pleased. Under the Tokugawa regime…

Hiea 112

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HIEA 12 Week 2
HIEA 12 Week 2
Hiea 112

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Feb 26, 2021

HIEA Post #3

Much of recorded history is often Eurocentric and focused on upper-class men, rather than addressing the life experiences of marginalized groups such as women and minorities. The result of which being that their experiences are often dismissed. This leads to the discussion of the ethics of history-writing. Since the advent…

Hiea115

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Hiea115

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Feb 3, 2021

HIEA 115 Medium Post #2

Prompt: Why is Tsurumi’s argument about the importance of Japanese women’s labor power to nation-building an important intervention to week 1’s theorizations of nationalism? On the flip side, what experiences might focus too much on this point occlude obstruct/stop? During week 1, we examined nationalism through the work of Benedict…

Hiea115

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Hiea115

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Jan 6, 2021

Why do I want to study the social and cultural history of modern Japan?

The reason I want to study Japan is that it has never been the focus of any history class I have taken in the past. “World History” classes in high school were clearly Eurocentric and yielded minimal time to the study of East Asian cultures and even less so to…

Hiea 115

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Hiea 115

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