[COIL] The Pacific War revisited
春名 展生/東京外国語大学 大学院国際日本学研究院
授業カリキュラム概要
As a common goal of all COIL courses, students are expected to cultivate intellectual flexibility and resilience through international academic discussions with U.S. students in English. As for this course in particular, students will problematize and re-examine their understanding of national and racial relations by exploring its re-imagination and reorganization during the Pacific War.
- Introduction
- Opening hostilities against the United States
- The decision to use A-bombs
- Wartime U.S-Japanese mutual perceptions
- Racialization on screen? Know Your Enemy: Japan (directed by Frank Capra)
- Wartime nation-building (1) Reunification of the Japanese people
- Wartime nation-building (2) Reunifying the empire
- Rethinking nationalism
- Racial order within the empire
- Racism and the “comfort women” system
- Preparation for the online (COIL) discussion
- Online (COIL) discussion
- Postwar racial encounters on screen: Tokyo Joe (1949)
[Instructor] Akito SAKASAI - Postwar racial representations
[Instructor] Akito SAKASAI - Summing up