This course surveys Japan's modern political institutions and
foreign policy.  There are no prerequisites.  Class meetings combine
lectures and student discussion, and the required work includes a term paper
and two exams.
	We will spend about three weeks on the period from the late 19th
century to the U.S. Occupation of Japan after World War II, emphasizing
continuities and discontinuities after the war.  We will then cover the
police, the judiciary, elections, the party system, the bureaucracy, the
press, interest groups in sectors such as big business and agriculture, and
political culture.  Special attention will go to the state's industrial
policy, welfare policy, and policy toward the environment.
	Regarding foreign relations, we will examine Japanese policy toward
Korea and China as well as security and trade relations between Japan and
the United States.