Course Description
This course seeks to place the founding of history of ICU in the context of modern Japanese history.The course will trace the history of Christian higher education from the Meiji period and focus on the experience of ICU from its founding in the immediate postwar period to the present day.
ICU献学の理念とその歴史について近代日本社会の歩みの中でとらえる。明治以来のキリスト教の高等教育の歴史に始まり、冷戦時代に創設されたICUの現在までの経験を考察する。
Contents of Lectures 19 Lectures / 12 Videos
Apr 10 Lecture01 Introduction: ICU and Modern Japan
Bibliography
ICU Mission Statement, 1953
Fukuzawa, Encouragement of Learning, Chapter 15 (On Selective Doubt)
Related Links
Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/
Basic Act of Education (Fundamental Law of Education), compares the 1947 law with revisions in 2006 (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Law_of_Education
Imperial rescript on Education, 1890
http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/136
Fukuzawa Yukichi (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa_Yukichi
Fukuzawa Yukichi, An Encouragement of Learning
http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/130
Japan Ministry of Education
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/minister/1304902.htm
Imperial Rescript on Education, 1890
https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/136
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UN 1948
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html
Fukuzawa Yuikichi, An Encouragment of Learning, Source
Apr 14 Lecture02 Instead of class: Campus Tour
Apr 17 Lecture03 Niijima Jo and the Founding of Doshisha
Bibliography
Reading: Life and Letters of Joseph Hardy Neeshima, pp. 180-243
Related Links
Niijima Jo (Joseph Hardy Neeshima) (Wikipedia)
Apr 21 Lecture04 Uchimura Kanzo and Christian Pacificism
Bibliography
John Howes, Uchimura Kanzo and Christian Pacifism
Edinburgh World Missionary Conference, 1910
Related Links
Uchimura Kanzo (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchimura_Kanz%C5%8D
Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Constitution
Nakae Chomin (1847-1901)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakae_Ch%C5%8Dmin
Kotoku Shusui
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%ABsui_K%C5%8Dtoku
Annexation of Korea
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/08/29/editorials/the-annexation-of-korea/#.VvoVuuKLSHt
Apr 24 Lecture05 Missionaries and Higher Education in Modernizing Japan
Bibliography
John Howes, Uchimura Kanzo and Christian Pacifism
Edinburgh World Missionary Conference, 1910
Related Links
Uchimura Kanzo (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchimura_Kanz%C5%8D
Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Constitution
Nakae Chomin (1847-1901)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakae_Ch%C5%8Dmin
Kotoku Shusui
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%ABsui_K%C5%8Dtoku
Annexation of Korea
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/08/29/editorials/the-annexation-of-korea/#.VvoVuuKLSHt
Apr 28 Lecture06 ICU Dedication Day, April 29, 1952
Bibliography
Yuasa Hachiro biography, Chapter 1
Yuasa,” The Ideas of ICU” (1951)
Related Links
Yuasa “The Ideals of ICU” Japanese Original (1951)
Slide（Under construction）
I SEE You
May 01 Lecture07 Yuasa Hachiro: His Early Life (Postcard cataloguing Project)
【Postcard cataloguing Project】
This is the practice of the material organization of historical researchers rather than a lecture.
この授業は、通常の講義ではなく、歴史学研究者が行う資料整理の練習を行っています。
※Videos are condensed version of course.
※この動画は授業内容をまとめたダイジェスト版を公開しています。
Bibliography
Yuasa Hachiro biography, Chapter 1
Yuasa,” The Ideas of ICU” (1951)
Slide（Under construction）
I SEE You
May 08 Lecture08 Christian Education in Wartime Japan
Bibliography
Yuasa Hachiro biography, Chapter 2
Patricia Sippel, “Surviving Japanse Militarism: Canadian Educators in a Christian Girls School”
Related Links
滝川事件 Takigawa Incident 1933
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takigawa_incident
May 12 Lecture09 Nakajima Aircraft Mitaka Kenkyujo
Bibliography
The Nakajima Aircraft Story
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/airplane/museum/nakajima/naka-cont-e.html
Hilary Elmendorf, “Occupying the Vacuum”: Conflicting Interpretations of Christianity in Postwar Japan”
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110007001187
幻の飛行機：富嶽 1981 Video on the Fugaku, Nakajima Chikuhei’s bomber that would win the war for Japan
http://video.fc2.com/content/201312093dEYahp9/
Re-inventing Japan (Video 10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sk5JRd2SWs
Related Links
Postwar ICU (PPT)
Nakajima Aircraft (Powerpoint)
May 15 Lecture10 Founding of ICU in Occupied Japan
May 19 Lecture11 Memories: Special Guest Speaker C-week
May 22 Lecture12 Fighting for Democracy: ICU and the Security Treaty Crisis in 1960 (C-week)
May 26 Lecture13 1960s Student Unrest Document Cataloguing Project I
Related Links
Bob Dylan The Times are Changing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE
Joan Baez, We Shall Overcome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNsEH1GD7Q&feature=kp
Struggle to drive students out of Yasuda Hall, University of Tokyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaBNI9Hs_xI
Okinawa and Agent Orange
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/153476
Beiheiren Peace in Vietnam Movement led by Oda Makoto
Oguma Eiji, 1968 (2 vols)
Slide（Under Construction）
Science Education at ICU (Powerpoint)
May 29 Lecture14 1960s Cataloguing Project II
Jun 2 Lecture15 Focus on Faculty: Takeda Kyoko
Bibliograpy
Professor Worth and Links between Faith and Science
Related Links
Remembering December 8 (Professor Cho (Takeda Kiyoko)
http://ocw.icu.ac.jp/eduCommons/sl/Prof-chou
Concluding Words of BBC documentary on “Knowledge and Certainty”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXsVKbHY_T0
Liberal Arts Education (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education
Slide（Under Construction）
Professor Worth and Links between Faith and Science
Jun5 Lecture16 Focus on Faculty: Donald Worth (Science education at ICU)
Jun9 Lecture17 ICU: From Showa to Heisei
Related Links
Normal Filed “In the Realm of a Dying Emperor”
Newspaper article about shooting at President of Ferris University
What is a 21st Century Liberal Education? (AAC&U)
http://www.aacu.org/leap/what-is-a-liberal-education
Slide（Under Construction）
Academic Reform at ICU 2008 (Powerpoint)
Jun12 Lecture18 ICU and Liberal Arts Education in Japan
Related Links
Normal Filed “In the Realm of a Dying Emperor”
Newspaper article about shooting at President of Ferris University
What is a 21st Century Liberal Education? (AAC&U)
http://www.aacu.org/leap/what-is-a-liberal-education
Slide（Under Construction）
Academic Reform at ICU 2008 (Powerpoint)
Jun16 Lecture19 Student Reports
Instructor: STEELE‚ M. William | Language of Instruction: E
Major: History 歴史学 | Course ID: HST224 | Course Schedule: 4*/M, 4*/TH | Update: 2016.04.18 Category: Major Courses