Schedule:

Session 1  Introduction to the course  and post-war Tokyo

    film:   "MacArthur’s Children"
    readings:  Hayashi Fumiko  "Late Chrysanthemums"
Tsuboi, Sakae "Umbrella on a Moonlit Night"



Session 2  Neighborhood Society
    
film: “Tampopo”   
    readings: Bestor, Theodore, "Conflict, Legitimacy and Tradition in a Tokyo Neighborhood"
Atoda, "Paper Doll"
 


Session 3  Urban Family – Middle class

film: "Sazae san" 3 episodes: "Day before Girl's Day at the Isono House," ""Everyone  wants to be the Fire Warder" (hi no yo jin)" and It's difficult to be a model (o tehon wa taihen desu)
 “Tokyo Story” Ozu Yasujiro
readings: Sugimoto, "Gender Stratification and the family system"
Ochiai, "the Truth about the Nuclearization of the Family"
Trans. Of Sazae-san episodes

  

Session 4  Urban Family  - working class

film: "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" #26 Torajiro Kamone uta 1980
readings: Buehler "the Wander" and "Foster Daddy, Tora"
(synopsis of the Tora-san film)
 
Session 5  Stresses on family life, education and work

    Film:  "Family Game"
Readings: Yoshimoto "Kitchen”
    Shimizu "Japanese Entrance Exams



Session 6  Urban Cults, Developers and Yakuza  
    
    film:  "The Taxing Woman Returns"
    readings:  Shiroyama "Kinjo: the Corporate Bouncer"
    Kinsela and Mullins " Social Crisis and Religion in Modern Japan"


Session 7   Tokyo in the Future

    film:  "Akira"
    readings:  Ohara, "Girl"
Napier,  "Panic Sites: the Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira"



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