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Course Title: Social Change and Politics in Japan Course Code: SSC 4316 Recommended Study Year: 3 and 4 No. of Credits/Term: 3 Mode of Tuition: Lecture & Tutorial Class Contact Hours: 3 hours per week Category in Major Program: CAPS Stream(Elective Course) Discipline: Social Sciences Teaching Period: First Term, 2018-2019 Instructor: Dr. Dong ZHANG Office Location: WYL316 Tel: 2616-7636 Email: [email protected] Office Hours: Tuesday 10:00 AM–12:00 PM; Thursday 2:00–4:00 PM; or by appointment Lecture: Wednesday 1:30 – 3:30 PM (WYL 109) Tutorial Session: Thursday 10:30–11:30 AM (LKK 304) Course Overview: This course examines the domestic politics, economic development, social changes and international relations of contemporary Japan. How did Japan transform into a modern state? Why did the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) dominate Japanese politics during the postwar era? What were the driving forces of Japan’s “miraculous” economic growth after the World War II? Why did Japan’s economy swing from boom to bust in the 1980s-90s? What were the political and economic consequences of the bubble bust? What are the key challenges confronting Japan’s foreign policies? This course seeks to offer a comprehensive analysis of the above questions and help students gain a deep understanding of Japan. Teaching Methods: This course consists of lectures, classroom discussions, tutorials, presentations, and research and writing. Aims: Describe and analyse the most significant features of the contemporary Japanese political, economic and social structure. Discuss a number of critical issues which are currently being debated in Japan. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, the aim is that students will have improved the ability to: Apply critical thinking and analytical writing skills to the study of contemporary political and economic events related to Japan. Discuss intelligently the political, economic and social developments in Japan. Use theories of comparative politics and political economy to analyze important phenomena and events in a comparative manner. page 1 of 10

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Course Title: Social Change and Politics in JapanCourse Code: SSC 4316Recommended Study Year: 3 and 4No. of Credits/Term: 3Mode of Tuition: Lecture & TutorialClass Contact Hours: 3 hours per weekCategory in Major Program: CAPS Stream(Elective Course)Discipline: Social SciencesTeaching Period: First Term, 2018-2019

Instructor:

Dr. Dong ZHANGOffice Location: WYL316Tel: 2616-7636Email: [email protected] Hours: Tuesday 10:00 AM–12:00 PM; Thursday 2:00–4:00 PM; or by appointmentLecture: Wednesday 1:30 – 3:30 PM (WYL 109)Tutorial Session: Thursday 10:30–11:30 AM (LKK 304)

Course Overview:

This course examines the domestic politics, economic development, social changes and international relationsof contemporary Japan. How did Japan transform into a modern state? Why did the Liberal DemocraticParty (LDP) dominate Japanese politics during the postwar era? What were the driving forces of Japan’s“miraculous” economic growth after the World War II? Why did Japan’s economy swing from boom to bustin the 1980s-90s? What were the political and economic consequences of the bubble bust? What are thekey challenges confronting Japan’s foreign policies? This course seeks to offer a comprehensive analysis ofthe above questions and help students gain a deep understanding of Japan.

Teaching Methods:

This course consists of lectures, classroom discussions, tutorials, presentations, and research and writing.

Aims:

• Describe and analyse the most significant features of the contemporary Japanese political, economicand social structure.

• Discuss a number of critical issues which are currently being debated in Japan.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, the aim is that students will have improved the ability to:

• Apply critical thinking and analytical writing skills to the study of contemporary political and economicevents related to Japan.

• Discuss intelligently the political, economic and social developments in Japan.

• Use theories of comparative politics and political economy to analyze important phenomena and eventsin a comparative manner.

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Assessment of Learning Outcomes:

• Participation (10%): Students are expected to complete all required readings prior to each lectureand to attend all lectures and tutorial sessions. If you miss one third of lectures (or tutorialsessions) without documenting a valid reason for your absence, you will lose participationgrade for this course.

• Tutorial Presentation (10%): Each student will sign up for one of “tutorial sessions” during thecourse. One or two students will make a short presentation and lead discussion in each week’s tutorialsession.

• Short Paper (30%): In a group of three (up to four) students, you will write a 15-page (or 20-page)paper to identify and analyse a policy problem in Japan(Times New Roman, 12-point font, doublespaced). Following the analysis, you should offer recommendations on how the policy can be improved.You will make a presentation to report your policy memo in the final week of this course. Furtherdetails of expectations will be given during the course. This assignment will be due on Wednesday,December 5 at noon.

• Final Exam (50%): The final will cover all the course material. The format is a combination ofshort answer questions (IDs) and longer essay questions.

Prerequisites:

No prior knowledge of Japan is required. Prior coursework in political science and/or economics is advised.

Course Materials:

There are no required books for this course. However, we will read four chapters of the following book. Theelectronic version of this book can be accessed through our university library.

• Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Michael F. Thies, Japan Transformed: Political Change and EconomicRestructuring (Princeton University Press, 2010)

Important Notes:

1. Students are expected to spend a total of 9 hours (i.e. 3 hours of class contact and 6 hours of personalstudy) per week to achieve the course learning outcomes.

2. Students shall be aware of the University regulations about dishonest practice in course work, tests andexaminations, and the possible consequences as stipulated in the Regulations Governing UniversityExaminations. In particular, plagiarism, being a kind of dishonest practice, is “the presentation ofanother person’s work without proper acknowledgement of the source, including exact phrases, orsummarised ideas, or even footnotes/citations, whether protected by copyright or not, as the student’sown work.”Students are required to strictly follow university regulations governing academic integrityand honesty.

3. Students are required to submit writing assignment(s) using Turnitin.

4. To enhance students’ understanding of plagiarism, a mini-course “Online Tutorial on PlagiarismAwareness” is available on https://pla.ln.edu.hk/.

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Course Schedule and Reading List

Lecture 1: IntroductionWednesday, September 5

There is no required reading for this lecture.

Recommended:

• Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Michael F. Thies, Japan Transformed: Political Change and EconomicRestructuring (Princeton University Press, 2010)

◦ Chapter 1

Lecture 2: From the Meiji Restoration to World War IIWednesday, September 12

• Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Michael F. Thies, Japan Transformed: Political Change and EconomicRestructuring (Princeton University Press, 2010)

◦ Chapter 3

Recommended:

• David Flath, The Japanese Economy(Oxford University Press, 2005)

◦ Chapters 2 and 3

• Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present(Oxford UniversityPress, 2013)

◦ Chapters 1-13

Lecture 3: Japanese Political InstitutionsWednesday, September 19

• Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Michael F. Thies, Japan Transformed: Political Change and EconomicRestructuring (Princeton University Press, 2010)

◦ Chapter 4

Recommended:

• Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen, The Rise and Fall of Japan’s LDP: Political Party Organiza-tions as Historical Institutions(Cornell University Press, 2011).

◦ Chapter 1

• Ethan Scheiner, Democracy Without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dom-inant State(Cambridge University Press, 2006).

◦ Chapter 3

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Lecture 4: Postwar Economic MiracleWednesday, September 26

• T.J. Pempel, Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy (Cornell Uni-versity Press, 1998)

◦ Chapter 2 (read pp.42-63)

Recommended:

• Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy,1925-1975(Stanford University Press, 1981)

◦ Chapters 1 and 9

• Paul Krugman,“The Myth of Asia’s Miracle,” Foreign Affairs 73,(6) 1994: 62-78

Lecture 5: State-Business Relations and Interest GroupsWednesday, October 3

• T.J. Pempel, Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy (Cornell Uni-versity Press, 1998)

◦ Chapter 2 (read pp.63-80)

Recommended:

• Masahiko Aoki, “Unintended Fit: Organizational Evolution and Government Design of Institutionsin Japan,” in Masahiko Aoki, Hyung-Ki Kim, and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara, eds., The Role ofGovernment in East Asian Economic Development(Clarendon Press,1996): 233-251

• Margarita Estevez-Abe, Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

◦ Chapter 6

Lecture 6: The Bubble and Financial CrisisWednesday, October 10

• Richard Katz, Japan, the System That Soured: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle(M.E. Sharpe, 1998)

◦ Chapter 8

Recommended:

• William Grimes, Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics, 1985-2000 (Cornell Uni-versity Press, 2001)

◦ Chapter 4

• Phillip Y. Lipscy and Hirofumi Takinami,“First-Mover Disadvantage: The Politics of Financial CrisisResponse in Japan and the United States,”Japanese Journal of Political Science 14,(3)2013: 321-353.

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∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗∗ No lecture on October 17(Chung Yeung Festival) ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗∗

Lecture 7: Political Transformation After the CrisisWednesday, October 24

• Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Michael F. Thies, Japan Transformed: Political Change and EconomicRestructuring (Princeton University Press, 2010)

◦ Chapter 6

Recommended:

• Gary Cox, Frances Rosenbluth, and Michael Thies,“Electoral Reform and the Fate of Factions: TheCase of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party,”British Journal of Political Science 29,(1)1999: 33-56.

• Yusaku Horiuchi and Jun Saito,“Reapportionment and Redistribution: Consequences of ElectoralReform in Japan,”American Journal of Political Science 47,(4)2003: 669-82.

Lecture 8: Economic Transformation After the CrisisWednesday, October 31

• Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Michael F. Thies,Japan Transformed: Political Change and EconomicRestructuring (Princeton University Press, 2010)

◦ Chapter 7

Recommended:

• Takeo Hoshi and Anil Kashyap,“Japan’s Financial Crisis and Economic Stagnation,” Journal ofEconomic Perspectives 18,(1)2004: 3-26

• Steven K.Vogel, Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring (Cornell UniversityPress, 2006)

◦ Chapters 1 and 7

Lecture 9: Social Change and Public PolicyWednesday, November 7

• Rosenbluth Frances, ed., The Political Economy of Japan’s Low Fertility (Stanford University Press,2007)

◦ Chapter 1

Recommended:

• Robert Pekkanen, Japan’s Dual Civil Society: Members Without Advocates (Stanford University Press,2006)

◦ Chapter 1

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• Priscilla A. Lambert,“The Political Economy of Postwar Family Policy in Japan: Economic Impera-tives and Electoral Incentives,” The Journal of Japanese Studies 33,(1)2007: 1-28

Lecture 10: Foreign Policy I: History and InstitutionsWednesday, November 14

• Michael Green, Japan’s Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy Challenges in an Era of Uncertain Power(Palgrave,2001)

◦ Chapter 1

Recommended:

• Michael Schaller, Altered States: The United States and Japan Since the Occupation (Oxford UniversityPress, 1997)

• Amy Catalinac, Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy(Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Lecture 11: Foreign Policy II: Japan and East Asian SecurityWednesday, November 21

• Michael Green, Japan’s Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy Challenges in an Era of Uncertain Power(Palgrave,2001)

◦ Chapter 3

Recommended:

• Richard J. Samuels, “‘New Fighting Power!’ Japan’s Growing Maritime Capabilities and East AsianSecurity,” International Security 32,(3) 2007: 84-112

• Jennifer Lind, Sorry States, Apologies in International Politics (Cornell University Press, 2010)

Lecture 12: Student Presentations and Wrap-upWednesday, November 28

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