Resources: General (Culture, History, Literature, Language)

Video

• The Human Condition With Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima. Directed by Masaki Kobayashi, from a script by Kobayashi and Zenzo Matsuyama, from a novel by Junpei Gomigawa. 587 minutes.
  
  
• Breaking barriers [videorecording] : foreign companies that succeed in Japan / NHK Enterprises ; producer, Shigeru Nakate ; director, Dina Silver. Falls Church, VA : Landmark FIlms, c1987. [Available for checkout at Webster University Library]
  
  
• Doubles [videorecording] : Japan and America's intercultural children / produced and directed by Regge Life. [Hohokus, NJ : Doubles Film Library], c1995. [Available for checkout at Webster University Library]
  
  
• Families of Japan [videorecording] / Arden Media Resources ; produced and written by Eleanor Betting; [S.l.] : Master Communications, c2005 [Available for checkout at Webster University Library]
  
  
• I Spy (1965) [9 episodes filmed in Japan] [Available for checkout at Webster University Library]
  

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Resources: Books, Articles and Videos

A continually updated list of resources for the "Global Issues: Japan" course will be posted on the instructors' blog: http://GlobalIssuesJapan.blogspot.com as well as on the student initiated course blogs:

• Resources: General (Culture, History, Literature, Language)
• Resources: Human Rights
• Resources: Global Citizenship
  
• Resources: Global Economics
• Resources: Militarism / Pacifism
  
• Resources: Global Sustainability
• Resources: Travel in Japan

Resources: Travel in Japan

Web Resources:

• Japan Rail Pass Information: http://www.japanrailpass.net/eng/en001.html
• Tokyo Subway Guide: http://www.tokyo-subway.net/english/index.html
  
• Train schedules in Japan: http://grace.hyperdia.com/cgi-english/hyperWeb.cgi

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Resources: Global Sustainability

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Resources: Global Economy & Politics

Books

• Omae, Kenichi. (1990) The borderless world : power and strategy in the interlinked economy. New York : HarperBusiness. [Available at Webster University Libraries]
  
• Ohmae, Kenichi. (1995) The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies. London: Harper Collins.
• Sueuchi, Keiko. (2002) Revisiting the Japanese Policy Process in a Globalizing World: The State Affected by Societal Conditions. In The New Japanese Political Economy: The Reform from the Above, edited by Minoru Nakano. Fuccechio: European Academic Press.

Articles

• Sasaki, M. (2004) Globalization and National Identity in Japan, International Journal of Japanese Sociology, 13 (1), 69 – 87
• Vogel, David, and Robert A. Kagan. (2004) Introduction: National Regulations in a Global Economy. In Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Politics, edited by David Vogel, and Robert A. Kagan. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Videos

• Globalisation [videorecording] / produced and directed by Brian Davies. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1997. [Available at Webster University Libraries]

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Resources: Human Rights

Chan-Tiberghien, Jennifer. Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004

Neary, Ian. Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. London: Routledge, 2002.

Seraphim, Franziska. War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008

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Resources: Militarism & Pacifism

Books and Articles

Cunningham, P.J. (2005) Japan’s Revisionist History, Los Angeles Times, April 11, 2005, p. B-11. Available at http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/11/opinion/oe-cunningham11

Hirata, K. (2007, Feb) "Questioning Pacifism: Collective Identity and Security Policy in Japan" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA Online Retrieved from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p181561_index.html

Matthews, E. (2003) Japan's New Nationalism. Foreign Affairs, 82 (6, Nov-Dec), 74-90.

Rosenbluth, F., Saito, J., and Zinn, A. (2007) Japan's New Nationalism: The International and Domestic Politics of an Assertive Foreign Policy, Japan World, (January) Available at: http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/japanworld/rosenbluth.pdf

Takada, K. (2008) “Article 9 and the Peace Movement” in Another Japan is Possible: New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education, edited by J. Chan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 158-161.

Chan, J. (Editor) (2008).Another Japan is Possible: New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education, edited Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press

Yamamoto, M. (2004) Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan: The Rebirth of a Nation Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies / Routledgecurzon

Yamane, K. (Editor) (2008) Museums for Peace Worldwide. Kyoto: The Organizing Committee of the Sixth International Conference of Museums for Peace.

Videos

• PBS (2008). Japan’s about face: The military’s shifting role in post-war society. [video recording] Available at: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/japans-about-face/introduction/746/
• Junkerman, John. (Director) (2005) Japan's Peace Constitution (Japanese title: Eiga Nihon-koku Kempo) [video recording] http://www.cine.co.jp/kenpo/english.html
  

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