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Demonstrate an understanding of the major historical forces and episodes that have shaped modern Japanese history.
Identify and interpret a wide variety of secondary and primary materials.
Examine historical issues by undertaking research according to the methodological and ethical conventions of the discipline.
Analyse historical evidence, scholarship and changing representations of the past.
Construct an evidence-based argument or narrative in audio, digital, oral, visual or written form.
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1. The Beginning of Tokugawa Power
2. Maintaining Tokugawa Power
3. The End of the Tokugawa Period
4. Creation of the Emperor Cult
5. The Social Costs of Industrialisation
6. Taisho
7. Korea Under Japanese Colonial Rule
8. Rural Japan in the 1930s
9. The Allied Occupation of Japan
10. The Security Treaty Crisis of 1960
11. The Economic ‘Miracle’
12. Positioning Japan for the Twenty-First Century