The University of Oxford is one of the world’s leading centers for the study of Japan. This course focuses on the urbanization movement and the Governmental-led measures for shrinking communities in Japan, social life and policies of Japan. You will learn about how they are managing population decline in Western-Europe. You will know about Abenomics, how they cope up with the double responsibility of care: balancing childcare, elderly care and work, the immigration policies and so on.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
Certification
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
| Module: 01 | |||
| What does the anthropology of Japan tell us about Japan – and about anthropology? | 00:58:00 | ||
| Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan | 00:51:00 | ||
| Japan’s Immigration Policy, 1999-2008: Discrepancy between Comprehensive Debate and Partial Reforms | 01:04:00 | ||
| Motivations for marriage and marital (un)happiness: Discourses in Japanese women’s magazines | 01:05:00 | ||
| Sarin no ato: Tracing the Aftermath of the Tokyo Subway Gassing | 00:47:00 | ||
| After Cool Japan: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble, Post-Disaster Society | 01:09:00 | ||
| Transnational History and Japan | 00:47:00 | ||
| Britain and Japan; Reflections on the bilateral relationship | 01:05:00 | ||
| Cultural Diversity and the law: From the Perspective of Cultural Policy | 01:04:00 | ||
| Nissan Seminar: Population reproduction: a new fertility regime (with remarks on the role of migration) | 01:00:00 | ||
| Module: 02 | |||
| Little paid and Overworked: Marriage prospects of low income Japanese men | 00:49:00 | ||
| The Political Arena of Low Fertility – Comparing Japan and Germany | 01:01:00 | ||
| Declining Fertility Rates in Japan and Other Low Fertility Nations: Can We Diagnose and Cure this ‘Disease’? | 00:56:00 | ||
| A Comparison of the Determinants of Low Marital Fertility between Japan and Korea | 00:54:00 | ||
| The Geography of Ageing and Population Decline in Japan | 00:58:00 | ||
| Productive Motherhood: Women’s Labour and Japan’s Lowest-Low Fertility | 00:39:00 | ||
| Economic Uncertainty and Fertility: Insights from Japan’s Long Recession | 00:49:00 | ||
| Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan | 01:02:00 | ||
| Module: 03 | |||
| The Downward Spiral of Japan’s Relations with China since 2012 | 01:01:00 | ||
| Take jellyfish for headaches: language, print and presentation in early 17th-century medical manuals | 00:48:00 | ||
| Engineering the Empire: “Comprehensive Development” in Japan’s Colonial Borderlands | 00:54:00 | ||
| Japan’s New Security Cooperation in Counter-Piracy Missions | 00:58:00 | ||
| The Greece of the East: Writing the History of Music in Meiji Japan | 00:56:00 | ||
| Introduction to the Memorial Event to Commemorate the Work and Influence of Dr Mark Rebick | 00:09:00 | ||
| An International Comparison in Hope and Happiness between Japan, United Kingdom, and United States | 00:44:00 | ||
| Lessons from Studying the Japanese Economy | 00:24:00 | ||
| Redefining the community firm? The unionization of part-time workers in the retail industry | 00:56:00 | ||
| Module: 04 | |||
| The Social Life of the Solitary Death: Aging, housing, and the limits of dwelling | 00:35:00 | ||
| A History of the IUD in Japan: Birth control policy and Cold War diplomacy | 01:02:00 | ||
| The Double Responsibility of Care: Balancing childcare, elderly care and work. | 00:47:00 | ||
| Abenomics: Past, Present, and Future | 01:08:00 | ||
| From Growth to Shrinkage: Managing Population Decline in Western-Europe | 00:31:00 | ||
| Cittaslow Experiences against the Social Desertification and to Promote Local Micro-economies on Resilient Way | 00:37:00 | ||
| The Slow City Approach and the Resilience of Japanese Shrinking Communities | 00:31:00 | ||
| The Degradation and Regeneration of Rural Areas in Japan | 00:31:00 | ||
| Achieving an Asia-Pacific Depopulation Dividend: Evidence and Experience from Shrinking Regions in Japan and New Zealand | 00:35:00 | ||
| Towards Synthesis of the Youth’s Counter-urbanisation Movement and the Governmental-led Measures for Shrinking Communities in Japan | 00:24:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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