| 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" |