History 222 - (C) Aspects of Japanese History: The Place of Protest in Early Modern and Modern Japan

Topics course: Histories of social conflict, protest, and revolution in early modern and modern Japan. In the early modern period (1600–1867), peasant resistance and protest, urban uprisings, popular culture, “world-renewal” movements, and the restorationist activism of the Tokugawa period. In the modern period, the incipient democratic movements and the new millenarian religions of the Meiji era (1868–1912), radical leftist activism, mass protest, and an emerging labor movement in the Taisho era (1912–26), anti-imperialist movements in China during the prewar years, and finally, a range of citizens’ movements in the postwar decades.