Explores political, economic, social, and cultural factors in postwar Japan. Although defeat in 1945 is often seen as a moment of breakage with the past, the outlines of Japan today emerged before and during World War II. This course traces the impact of occupation by the Allied powers, the development of a �special relationship� with the United States, high-speed economic growth, social change, globalization, war memory, and other themes in the late twentieth-century Japanese nation-state.
