PS 131 - Tufts University
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Political Science <strong>131</strong><br />
DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM IN JAPAN<br />
<strong>Tufts</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
Spring 2012<br />
Mon. & Wed., 7:30-8:45 p.m.<br />
Braker 001<br />
Professor Shinju Fujihira<br />
Office: Packard Hall 003<br />
Email: shin.fujhira@tufts.edu<br />
Office Hours: MW 6:30-7:15 p.m., and<br />
by appointment<br />
Objectives<br />
This course offers a survey of contemporary Japanese democracy, capitalism, and foreign<br />
policy. It aims to: (1) develop a series of arguments in order to explain the main questions and<br />
puzzles of Japan’s political trajectories; (2) place Japan’s contemporary experiences in the<br />
comparative and global context, as they relate to Asia, Europe, and the U.S.; and (3) familiarize<br />
the student with the influential writings in English by prominent scholars and practitioners<br />
dedicated to the study of political science and Japan.<br />
Reading Assignments<br />
All required readings are available on Trunk (http://trunk.tufts.edu).<br />
Requirements & Expectations<br />
1. Class attendance: presentation and discussion.<br />
Each class will consist of a student presentation, lecture, and discussion. Students are<br />
required to have completed the reading assignments before class.<br />
Each student is required to work with one or two more students to do a presentation for a<br />
particular class; the pairing will be done randomly by the instructor, to encourage students to get<br />
to know one another. The presentation should be no more than 10 minutes. The presentation<br />
should not summarize the readings in detail. Instead, it should offer a critical analysis of the main<br />
arguments and evidence in the readings, and clarify the major points of debate among different<br />
perspectives. The presentation should also raise questions which remain unanswered or demand<br />
more analysis. Any format would be fine—Powerpoint, a skit, rap song etc.—as long as the<br />
presentation is helpful to the entire class and launches a general discussion.<br />
2. Two papers, no more than 8 pages each:<br />
The papers are due on Friday, March 9, and Friday, April 27. The paper topics<br />
will be distributed one week in advance.<br />
3. Final examination:<br />
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The final examination will take place on Wednesday, May 9, during 7-9 p.m. It will consist<br />
identifications of important terms (consisting of events, individuals, and policies) and essays. The<br />
possible questions for the essays will be distributed on the last day of class (April 30).<br />
Grading<br />
Class Participation and Presentation: 20%<br />
Paper (I): 20%<br />
Paper (II): 30%<br />
Final Examination: 30%<br />
1. Class Participation and Presentation:<br />
The student’s class participation grade will be based on her/his ability to engage the ideas in<br />
the readings, and to respond to lectures and student presentations in a constructive and thoughtful<br />
way. Frequency of speaking does not necessarily raise the student’s class participation grade. The<br />
class presentation grade will be based on its ability to present the main debates in the readings<br />
clearly and to raise an interesting debate in the discussion.<br />
2. Papers (I) & (II), and final examinations:<br />
Only health and family emergencies will exempt you from submitting the two papers on time<br />
and taking the final examination at the appointed date and time. Such emergencies include<br />
serious medical illnesses and a death in the immediate family, and must be explained in a written<br />
and signed letter by the academic dean and/or healthcare provider.<br />
For the papers, the student’s grade will be penalized by 1/3 of a letter grade for every twentyfour<br />
hours after the deadline of the paper. This means that a grade of “B+” will be “B” within the<br />
first 24 hours after the deadline, and “B-“ between the 24 to 48 hours after the deadline. With<br />
proper documentation, the student will be allowed to take the final examination during the<br />
different time and date.<br />
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1/23. Introduction: From “Postwar” to “Post-Disaster”<br />
1/25. State-building, Democratization, and Militarism<br />
1/30. The Great East Asian War<br />
2/1. U.S. Occupation<br />
2/6. The Emperor and the Postwar Constitution<br />
2/8. Political Ideologies and Leadership<br />
Lecture & Discussion Topics<br />
Part I. Historical Background<br />
2/13. Political Parties, Elections, and Campaigns<br />
2/15. Interest Groups<br />
Part II. Japanese Democracy<br />
2/20. No class due to President’s Day<br />
2/22. Bureaucracy and Executive-Legislature Relations<br />
2/23 (Th). Judiciary and Media (substitute Monday schedule)<br />
2/27. Civil Society, Social Movements, and Minorities<br />
2/29. Electoral Reform, Coalition Governments, and LDP’s Crisis<br />
3/5. The DPJ Government and the March 11 Disasters<br />
Part III. Japanese Capitalism<br />
3/7. Industrial Policy and Technological Innovation<br />
3/9, 4:30 p.m. Paper (I) due in instructor’s mailbox in Packard Hall<br />
3/12. Monetary Policy and Financial Crisis<br />
3/14. Welfare State, Taxation, and Redistribution<br />
3/26. No class.<br />
3/28, 6:00 p.m. Firms and Corporate Governance<br />
3/28, 7:30 p.m. Labor Market and the Varieties of Inequality<br />
4/2. Climate Change and the Nuclear Disaster<br />
4/4. U.S.-Japan Alliance<br />
4/9, 6:00 p.m. The Korean Peninsula<br />
4/9, 7:30 p.m. China’s Rise<br />
4/11. No class.<br />
4/16. No class (Patriot’s Day)<br />
4/18. Globalization and Asian Regionalism<br />
Part IV. Japan in World Affairs<br />
4/23. Nationalism and Historical Reconciliation<br />
4/25. The U.S.-Japan Alliance in Crisis?<br />
4/27, 4:30 p.m. Paper (II) due in instructor’s mailbox in Packard Hall<br />
4/30. Conclusion: Decline or Renewal?<br />
5/9 (Wednesday), 7-9 p.m. Final examination.<br />
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Reading Assignments<br />
Part I. Historical Background<br />
1/23. Introduction: From “Postwar” to “Post-Disaster”<br />
Please note the reading assignments on the first day of class.<br />
• Ezra Vogel. Japan as Number One: Lessons for America (Harper & Row, 1979), Chapters 1-2.<br />
• James Fallows. “Containing Japan.” The Atlantic (May 1989).<br />
• Fred Hiatt. “Does Japan Still Matter?” Washington Post (December 11, 2009).<br />
• Ian Miller. “Bitter Legacy, Injured Coast.” New York Times (March 19, 2011).<br />
• Eamonn Fingleton. “The Myth of Japan’s Failure.” New York Times (January 6, 2012).<br />
1/25. State-Building, Democratization, and Militarism<br />
• David Howell. “Visions of the Future in Meiji Japan.” Ch. 3 in Merle Goldman and<br />
Andrew Gordon eds., Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia (Harvard,<br />
2000).<br />
• Sheldon Garon. “State and Society in Interwar Japan.” Ch. 5 in Merle Goldman and<br />
Andrew Gordon eds., Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia (Harvard,<br />
2000).<br />
1/30. The Great East Asian War<br />
• Scott Sagan. “The Origins of the Pacific War.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Spring<br />
1988).<br />
• Ian Toll. “A Reluctant Enemy.” New York Times (December 6, 2011).<br />
• Saburo Ienaga. “The Glorification of War in Japanese Education.” International Security<br />
(Winter 1993/94).<br />
• “Past Haunts Tally of Japan’s Nuke Crisis.” Wall Street Journal (December 23, 2011).<br />
2/1. U.S. Occupation<br />
• John Dower. “The Useful War.” In Carol Gluck and Stephen Graubard eds., Showa:<br />
The Japan of Hirohito (W.W. Norton, 1992).<br />
• John Dower. “Embracing Revolution.” Chapter 7 in Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of<br />
World War II (Norton, 1999).<br />
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• John Dower. “A Warning from History: Don’t Expect Democracy in Iraq.” Boston Review<br />
(February/March 2003).<br />
2/6. The Emperor and the Postwar Constitution<br />
• Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (HarperCollins, 2000), Chs. 15-16.<br />
• “The Constitution of Japan (1947).” Hanover Historical Texts Project.<br />
2/8. Political Ideologies and Leadership<br />
• Richard Samuels. Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan<br />
(Cornell, 2003), pp. 200-11, 225-49.<br />
• Chalmers Johnson. “Tanaka Kakuei, Structural Corruption, and the Advent of Machine Politics<br />
in Japan.” Journal of Japanese Studies (Winter 1986).<br />
2/13. Political Parties, Elections, and Campaigns<br />
Part II: Japanese Democracy<br />
• Mark Ramseyer and Frances Rosenbluth. Japan’s Political Marketplace (Harvard, 1993), Ch. 2.<br />
• Ellis Krauss and Robert Pekkanen. The Rise and Fall of the LDP: Political Party Organizations<br />
as Historical Institutions (Cornell, 2010), Ch. 2.<br />
2/15. Interest Groups<br />
• “Keidanren Growth Strategy 2011.” Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) website.<br />
• Sheldon Garon and Mike Mochizuki. “Negotiating Social Contracts.” Chapter 6 in<br />
Andrew Gordon ed., Postwar Japan as History (California, 1993).<br />
• Christina Davis. Food Fights over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote<br />
Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Princeton, 2003), Ch. 4.<br />
2/22. Bureaucracy and Executive-Legislature Relations<br />
• Jennifer Amyx. Japan’s Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change<br />
(Princeton, 2004), Chs. 2-3.<br />
• Tomohito Shinoda. “Japan’s Cabinet Secretariat and Its Emergence as a Core Executive.” Asian<br />
Survey (September/October 2005).<br />
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2/23 (Thursday). Judiciary and Media<br />
• John Haley. “The Japanese Judiciary: Maintaining Autonomy, Integrity, and the Public Trust.”<br />
Ch. 5 in Daniel Foote, ed., Law in Japan: A Turning Point (<strong>University</strong> of Washington<br />
Press, 2007).<br />
• Eric Feldman. “Deconstructing the Japanese HIV Scandal.” JPRI Working Paper No.<br />
30 (February 1997).<br />
• Laurie Freeman. “Japan’s Press Clubs as Information Cartels.” JPRI Working Paper (April<br />
1996).<br />
• Helen Hardacre. “Aum Shinrikyo and the Japanese Media.” JPRI Working Paper (April 1996).<br />
2/27. Civil Society, Social Movements, and Minorities<br />
• Frank Upham. “Unplaced Persons and Movements for Place.” Chapter 12 in Andrew<br />
Gordon ed., Postwar Japan as History (California, 1993).<br />
• Robert Pekkanen. “Molding Japanese Civil Society: State-Structured Incentives and the<br />
Pattering of Civil Society.” Frank Schwartz and Susan Pharr eds., The State of Civil<br />
Society (Cambridge, 2003).<br />
• Erin Chung. “Workers or Residents? Diverging Patterns of Immigrant Incorporation in Korea<br />
and Japan.” Pacific Affairs (December 2010).<br />
2/29. Electoral Reform, Coalition Governments, and LDP’s Crisis<br />
• Steven Reed and Kay Shimizu. “Avoiding a Two-Party System: The Liberal Democratic Party<br />
and the Duverger’s Law.” In Steven Reed, Kenneth McElwain, and Kay Shimizu eds.,<br />
Political Change in Japan: Electoral Behavior, Party Realignment, and the Koizumi<br />
Reforms (Stanford APARC, 2009).<br />
• Jun Saito. “Pork Barrel Politics and Partisan Realignment in Japan.” In Steven Reed, Kenneth<br />
McElwain, and Kay Shimizu eds., Political Change in Japan: Electoral Behavior, Party<br />
Realignment, and the Koizumi Reforms (Stanford APARC, 2009).<br />
• Patricia Maclachlan. “Storming the Castle: The Battle for Postal Reform in Japan.” Social<br />
Science Japan Journal (2006).<br />
3/5. The DPJ Government and the March 11 Disasters<br />
• Yoichi Funabashi. “Tokyo’s Trials: Can the DPJ Change Japan?” Foreign Affairs<br />
(November/December 2009).<br />
• Ellis Krauss and Robert Pekkanen. “The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party.”<br />
Journal of Asian Studies (February 2010).<br />
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• Yukio Hatoyama. “A New Path for Japan.” New York Times (August 26, 2009).<br />
• “Floundering in the Foggy Fortress.” Economist (February 25, 2010).<br />
• “Mom Turns Activist in Japanese Crisis.” Wall Street Journal (June 17, 2011).<br />
• “Generational Warfare.” Economist (January 28, 2012).<br />
• “Japan Weighed Evacuating Tokyo in Nuclear Crisis.” New York Times (February 27, 2012).<br />
Part III. Japanese Capitalism<br />
3/7. Industrial Policy and Technological Innovation<br />
• Chalmers Johnson. MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-<br />
1975 (Stanford, 1982), Ch. 7.<br />
• Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu. “Capitalizing on Innovation: The Case of Japan.” Harvard<br />
Business School Working Paper 09-114 (2009).<br />
• “Japanese Manufacturing in Search of Salvation.” Financial Times (January 4, 2012).<br />
3/12. Monetary Policy and Financial Crisis<br />
• Richard Katz. “Lessons for U.S. from Japan’s Banking Crisis.” Testimony for Congressional<br />
Oversight Panel (March 19, 2009).<br />
• Robert Feldman and Thierry Porte. “Lessons from Japan for a Troubled World: Finance,<br />
Economics, and Politics.” Transcript from the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar,<br />
Harvard <strong>University</strong> (April 14, 2009).<br />
• Paul Krugman. “Things Could Be Worse.” New York Times (September 9, 2010).<br />
3/14. Welfare State, Taxation, and Redistribution<br />
• Margarita Abe-Estevez. Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan (Cambridge, 2008), Ch. 1.<br />
• Andrew DeWit and Sven Steinmo. “The Political Economy of Taxes and Redistribution in<br />
Japan.” Social Science Japan Journal (Winter 2002).<br />
• William Grimes. “Japan’s Debt Challenge.” (National Bureau of Asian Research, October 2011).<br />
3/28, 6:00 p.m. Firms and Corporate Governance<br />
• Steven Vogel. Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese<br />
Capitalism (Cornell, 2006), Ch. 6<br />
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• Ulrike Schaede, Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies for the 21 st Century (Cornell,<br />
2008), Ch. 5.<br />
3/28, 7:30 p.m. Labor Market and the Varieties of Inequality<br />
• Andrew Gordon. “The End of the Japanese-Style Employment System?” (2011).<br />
• Leonard Schoppa. Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection<br />
(Cornell, 2006), Ch. 7.<br />
• “Generation Gap.” Wall Street Journal (December 29, 2005).<br />
• “Japan Tries to Face Up to Poverty Problem.” New York Times (April 21, 2010).<br />
• “Japan Keeps a High Wall for Foreign Labor.” New York Times (January 2, 2011).<br />
• “In Japan, Young Face Generational Roadblocks.” New York Times (January 27, 2011).<br />
4/2. Climate Change, Energy Security, and Nuclear Disaster<br />
• Yves Tiberghien and Miranda Schreurs. “High Noon in Japan: Embedded Symbolism and Post-<br />
Kyoto Protocol Politics.” Global Environmental Politics (November 2007).<br />
• Charles Ferguson. “Think Again: Nuclear Power.” Foreign Policy (November 2011).<br />
• Yoichi Funabashi and Kay Kitazawa. “Fukushima in Review: A Complex Disaster, A<br />
Disastrous Response.” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (March 2012).<br />
• Paul Scalise. “Japanese Energy Policy after Fukushima.” Policy Innovations (December 21,<br />
2011).<br />
4/4. U.S.-Japan Alliance<br />
Part IV. Japan in World Affairs<br />
• Peter Katzenstein. Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan<br />
(Cornell, 1996), Ch. 5.<br />
• Richard Samuels. “Japan’s Goldilocks Strategy.” Washington Quarterly (Autumn 2007).<br />
• “Deployment of U.S. Forces in Japan.” (MOFA website).<br />
4/9, 6:00 p.m. The Korean Peninsula<br />
• Victor Cha. “Abandonment, Entrapment, and Neoclassical Realism in Asia: The United States,<br />
Japan, and Korea.” International Studies Quarterly (June 2000).<br />
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• “Abductions of Japanese Citizens by North Korea.” (MOFA website).<br />
• David Kang and Ji-Young Lee. “Japan-Korea Relations: The New Cold War in Asia?”<br />
Comparative Connections (January 2011).<br />
4/9, 7:30 p.m. China’s Rise<br />
• Michael Green. “Japan-China Relations.” In Japan’s Reluctant Realism: Foreign Policy in an<br />
Era of Uncertain Power (Palgrave, 2001).<br />
• Shinichi Kitaoka. “Answering China’s Japan Bashers.” Japan Echo (Special Issue, 2005).<br />
• Hitoshi Tanaka. “The Senkaku Islands and Mending Japan-China Relations.” East Asia Insights<br />
(November 2010).<br />
4/18. Globalization and Asian Regionalism<br />
• Saadia Pekkanen, Mireya Solis and Saori Katada, “Trading Gains for Control: International<br />
Trade Forums and Japan’s Economic Diplomacy.” International Studies Quarterly<br />
(2007).<br />
• William Grimes. “The Future of Regional Liquidity Arrangements in East Asia: Lessons from<br />
the Global Financial Crisis.” Pacific Review (July 2011).<br />
• “Honda Revs Up Outside Japan.” Wall Street Journal (December 21, 2011).<br />
4/23. Nationalism and Historical Reconciliation<br />
• Daqing Yang. “Convergence or Divergence? Recent Historical Writings on the Rape of<br />
Nanjing.” American Historical Review (June 1999).<br />
• David McNeill. “History Redux: Japan’s Textbook Battle Reignites.” JPRI Working Paper (No.<br />
107, June 2005).<br />
• Kazuhiko Togo. “A Moratorium on the Yasukuni Visits.” Far Eastern Economic Review (June<br />
2006).<br />
• Jennifer Lind. “The Perils of Apology: What Germany Shouldn’t Learn from Japan.” Foreign<br />
Affairs (May/June 2009).<br />
4/25. The U.S.-Japan Alliance in Crisis?<br />
• Christopher Hughes. “How Japan Could Revise Its Constitution and What It Would Mean for<br />
Japanese Security Policy.” Orbis (Fall 2006).<br />
• Kent Calder. Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism<br />
(Princeton, 2007), pp. 130-8, 166-75.<br />
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• Gavan McCormack. “Deception and Diplomacy: The U.S., Japan, and Okinawa.” Asia Pacific<br />
Journal (May 2011).<br />
• “Realignment of USFJ.” (MOFA website).<br />
4/30. Conclusion: Decline or Renewal?<br />
• David Leheny. “A Narrow Place to Cross Swords: Soft Power and the Politics of Popular<br />
Culture in East Asia.” In Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi eds., Beyond Japan:<br />
The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism (Cornell, 2006).<br />
• Glen Fukushima. “Reverse Japan’s Insularity.” JPRI Critique (April 2010).<br />
• Shuichi Wada. “Operation Tomodachi in Miyagi Prefecture: Success and Homework.” Japan<br />
Chair Platform, Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 2011).<br />
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