Reading for the course will include some short stories, information on the films and some articles relating to Japanese society.  These can be obtained through the Kennedy Library on-line reserve.  To access these readings you need to be registered and have a student I.d. number.  You may read them on-line, download them to your computer or print them off.  You will also be asked to purchase Banana Yoshimoto’s "Kitchen” will be available throught the El Corral Bookstore.  The course schedule will indicate when you should read each of these readings.

On-line Reserve materials:

Short stories:   Hayashi Fumiko  "Late Chrysanthemums"
                        Tsuboi, Sakae "Umbrella on a Moonlit Night"
                        Atoda, "Paper Doll"Sugimoto
                        Shiroyama "Kinjo: the Corporate Bouncer"
                        Ohara, "Girl"

Academic articles:  Bestor, Theodore, "Conflict, Legitimacy and Tradition in a Tokyo                                        Neighborhood"
                             "Gender Stratification and the family system"
                                Ochiai, "the Truth about the Nuclearization of the Family"
                                Buehler "the Wander" and "Foster Daddy, Tora"
                                Shimizu "Japanese Entrance Exams
                                 Kinsela and Mullins " Social Crisis and Religion in Modern Japan"
                                Napier,  "Panic Sites: the Japanese Imagination of Disaster from                                         Godzilla to Akira"

Translations of Japanese language films:   Sazae-san episodes
                                                                    synopsis of the Tora-san film   

Novella:  BananaYoshimoto "Kitchen”
    
For general reading about the city, the following are recommended:

Sansom, Katherine, "Living in Tokyo" London: Chatters and Winders, 1936

Seidensticker, Edward , “High City, Low City” England:Penguin Books, 1983.

Seidensticker, Edward, Tokyo Rising,

Waley, Paul, Tokyo: City of Stories, Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1991.

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