Put yourself in the shoes of an Ainu person who lived through the extension of the boundaries of the old Tokugawa regime to include your ancestral homelands. How might your life change on an everyday level? …

week #1 What are the long-term impacts that Hideyoshi’s edicts may have had upon social relations between ordinary people of different strata? For example, how do you think the directive that farmers no longer would be allowed to have weapons, impacted their day-to-day lives? Hideyoshi made sure he had an absolute control…

With the enormous phenomenon of Anime culture all over the world, I, as well as a lot of kids around my age at the time, was greatly influenced by it since we were in elementary school. We were appealed by the colorfulness, of a somewhat familiar culture to our, but…

Read “The Way of Subjects” alongside “Goodbye Asia” from week 3. What has remained consistent in the justifications that each piece makes for imperialism, and what has transformed over the course of 55 years? What do you think accounts for the main changes? Both “The Way of Subjects” and “Goodbye…