JAPAN: FROM WARRING STATES TO THE MODERN DAY

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This course will examine the course of Japanese history beginning with the Warring States (Sengoku) era of fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It will then continue by assessing unified Japan under the Tokugawa bakufu, the initial stability of this period, then the growing tensions which led to the collapse of the bakufu state in the 1860s. From there, the course will analyze the emergence of modern Japan during the Meiji Restoration, its evolution to a military state, and then conclude with an assessment of Japan's transformation in the post-World War II era.