Date of recording:
2015
Duration:
50:17 min
About the Speaker
Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science; Director, Toyota Research Program, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Senior Research Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation.
Background Reading and Classroom Material
Current Material: Video Clips and News Articles
Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China [Columbia]
Excellent short videos from the Council on Foreign Relations – 2015.
Recommended: China-Japan Relations: Three Things to Know (2:46 min); China’s Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea (7:26, 3:08, 3:35)
Worsening Sino-Japanese Relations: Implications for the U.S. [USC US-China Institute]
50 minute video presentation with visuals by David Arase on changing Sino-Japanese relations and the dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands – 2014.
“South Koreans Back Japan’s Peace Constitution as Nobel Prize-Worthy” [New York Times]
Article – 2014.
Primary Sources/with DBQ
Article 9 and the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty [AFE]
Primary sources with introduction.
Primary Sources with DBQ: Japan, 1750-2000 [AFE]
Both the Meiji Constitution of 1889 and the post-war Japanese Constitution of 1947 are included on this site.
Potsdam Declaration
Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender. Issued, at Potsdam, July 26, 1945
Statement by the Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama “On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the War’s End”
Issued August 15, 1995.
Statement by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on 60th anniversary of War’s End
Issued August 15, 2005.
“An Interpretive History of Japan” [SPICE/Stanford]
Six video lectures by Professor Emeritus Daniel Okimoto from Stanford University and six corresponding lesson plans. 2012.
Other Resources
Asia by Era – Japan: 1945-2000 [AFE]
Asia by Era – Japan: 21st Century [AFE]
Timeline of Japanese History [AFE]
Articles on Japan from “Education about Asia” at AAS (free, open access)
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by Sarah Campbell`
E-book available on Apple Books.
Japanese and American Perspectives, Erica Gullickson
E-book available on Apple Books.
