Your reading lists/bibliographies should include the following elements:

• Sources providing the historical context of the topics. These include journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopaedia entries (NOT from Wikipedia). These may be delivered electronically or via the internet (but make sure you check its provenance, authenticity and accuracy, hence the prohibition on Wikipedia).

• If you are using film you must provide a brief background of the director and the film’s context. You may use sleeve notes for this or additional material provided on the DVD. However, if using the latter make sure you use this material critically since the quality of this information is very variable. Critical reviews of films or books, online (again, check the provenance) or in journals and book chapters.

• Journal articles/book chapters on the main historical and conceptual themes discussed in the essay or the seminar.

The reading lists included below are not definitive and you are expected to track down additional material on your own.

Preparatory Reading

It is recommended that you undertake some general reading in preparation for the lectures. You will find the following useful:

• W. G. Beasley The Rise of Modern Japan Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1990

• John Dower Japan in War and Peace: Essays on History, Race and Culture. Harper Collins, 1995 and Embracing Defeat

• Janet Hunter The Emergence of Modern Japan: An Introductory History Since 1853: Longman, 1989.

• Ann Waswo Modern Japanese Society 1868-1994 (1996)

• Many of the articles cited in the reading list for the seminars will be found in Stephen S Large (ed.) Showa Japan: Political, Economic and Social History 1926-1989. 4 vols., London: Routledge, 1998.

• Japanese Journals: The main journals are Japan Forum available electronically.

• Journal of Asian Studies, Monumenta Japonica and the Journal of Japanese Studies are available from JSTOR up to 2003 and online. For JJS select Project Muse to download articles.