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[COIL] Postwar U.S.-Japan Relations

HARUNA, Nobuo/Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Course Description

As a common goal of all COIL courses, students are expected to cultivate intellectual flexibility and resilience through international academic discussions with U.S. students in English. As for this course in particular, students will problematize and re-examine common understandings concerning the “U.S.-Japan alliance” by critically exploring its historical development.

  1. Introduction

    [Instructor] Nobuo HARUNA

  2. Transforming the enemy: U.S. occupation and the new constitution

    [Instructor] Nobuo HARUNA

  3. Censorship under U.S. occupation

    [Instructor] Akito SAKASAI

  4. Black market and “culture of defeat”

    [Instructor] Akito SAKASAI

  5. From enemy to ally: the peace treaty and the security pact

    [Instructor] Nobuo HARUNA

  6. Equal partners? The struggle over the Security Treaty revision

    [Instructor] Nobuo HARUNA

  7. Fire across the sea? The Vietnam War

    [Instructor] Nobuo HARUNA

  8.  U.S. occupation of Okinawa

    [Instructor] Kozue UEHARA

  9. Okinawa and the Cold War

    [Instructor] Kozue UEHARA

  10. The “Okinawa problem” updated

    [Instructor] Nobuo HARUNA

  11. Online (COIL) discussion

    [Instructor] Nobuo HARUNA

  12. End of the Cold War, end of the alliance?

    [Instructor] Nobuo HARUNA

  13. Redefining the alliance in the post-Cold War era

    [Instructor] Nobuo HARUNA

  14. U.S.-Japan relations during the “war against terrorism”

    [Instructor] Nobuo HARUNA

  15. The controversy over the right to “collective self-defense”

    [Instructor] Nobuo HARUNA

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