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 the general stability of the Tokugawa period (1603-1868). The course then moves to the birth of modern Japan in the 1860s and its evolution to a military state and the consequences of World War II. The course concludes with an assessment of Japan's transformation in the post-World War II era. (Cross-listed with HIST 8756 ).