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Japanese
Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School School of Economics Economics Day Course
Lecture Code G6024215 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name 日本経済史1
Subject Name
(Katakana)
ニホンケイザイシ1
Subject Name in
English
Japanese Economic History 1
Instructor KATSUBE MAKOTO
Instructor
(Katakana)
カツベ マコト
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 3rd-Year,  First Semester,  1Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (1T) Weds5:ECON B255, (1T) Weds6-8:ECON B155
Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
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Lecture 
Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week   Language of Instruction J : Japanese
Course Level 3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate
Course Area(Area) 24 : Social Sciences
Course Area(Discipline) 03 : Economics
Eligible Students
Keywords Economic history, industrialization, financial politics, society, historical particularity 
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Economic Analysis program 
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Economic Analysis
(Abilities and Skills)
・The ability to develop historical analysis applying knowledge on economic history, history of economic doctrines and political economy. 
Class Objectives
/Class Outline
Objectives:
Needless to say, the history is not “a learning by heart subject”. The past phenomenon was caused in environment or the condition of the times concerned, and, as for it, there is not plasticity. However, in an abstracted dimension, the phenomenon has a problem to overlap now.
In this class, I aim for you acquiring the consciousness that you find a problem and consider from the historical essence.
Outline:
In the Edo era, a monetary economy and market economies spread in the Japanese Islands. And, with it as a base, economic growth and the industrialization progressed in afterward for the Meiji period. The Japanese economy traced the original development course, while coming under a global influence. In this lecture, I want to think about a characteristic of the Japanese economy development, while investigating the factor. 
Class Schedule 1.Orientation
2. What was the factor that brought bubble economy of Japan? In addition, as a result, how becomes the Japanese society?
3.Viewpoint to carry through Japanese economic history
4. Was the society of the Edo era really "self-sufficiency"?
5. Which level did the economy develop to, in the late Tokugawa period?
6. Was the industrialization of Japan really Western imitation?
7. I think about tax reform after the Sino-Japanese War.
8. I think about a fight over national budget created by multipolarization of the politics, after Russo-Japanese War
9. What did the Japanese economical development bring, in the World War I time?
10. Why was the popularized society created?
11.How did the party politics deal, in a series of economic crises?
12. Why did the Osachi Hamaguchi Cabinet perform a lifting the gold embargo policy?
13. How did Minister of Finance Korekiyo Takahashi foresee economy after the gold standard secession?
14. How did we say the Japanese organization which pushed forward war?
15. What are the characteristics of Japanese manufacturing?

I carry out an examination on the last day. 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
There is not the textbook. As a reference book, I recommend Japanese History series (Shogakukan, Shueisha, Chuokoron-Sha) for public. In addition, you should read "the introduction seminar Japanese economy" of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.. Both are comprised in the central library of Hiroshima Univ. 
PC or AV used in
Class,etc.
 
(More Details) PowerPoint 
Learning techniques to be incorporated  
Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review
I do not explain basic knowledge about the Japanese history some other time. The person who does not learn Japanese history in a high school hopes to read the educational comics "Japanese history" first of all. In addition, it is slightly difficult, but the comics "Japanese history" of Shotaro Ishinomori is good, too. 
Requirements nothing 
Grading Method I evaluate it by the comments of the every hour(10 points) and a term-end examination (90 points) .
I pay attention to the next points and mark it. One, you think or not about essence, while writing comments and the answer of the examination? Two, you write them or not while associating the essence with a modern problem?
 
Practical Experience  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it  
Message The time of this class is a problem, and my way of speaking may provoke your sleep. Though there is not it, as for the cunning of the speech skill to attract a person to me, only the eagerness is not defeated by a person. But I want to make an effort to tell that I can draw your interest as much as possible. I hope that you polish intellectual curiosity without yielding to moisture and sultriness, when my lecture is carried out. 
Other When coronavirus infection spreads, it may become the remote class. 
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. 
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