Watch The Rise of Modern Japan

2025
1 Season

Professor Mark J. Ravina covers Japan since World War II, dealing with the economic miracle that made it second only to the United States in the size of its economy. You learn how this happened and why Japanese markets plunged in the 1990s. You explore the economic, political, and social background, and the natural and nuclear disasters that befell Japan in 2011.

The Rise of Modern Japan is a series that ran for 1 seasons (11 episodes) between July 17, 2025 and on The Great Courses

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12. Japan after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

July 17, 2025

Learn that Japan

11. Japan Confronts the Collapse of a Bubble

July 17, 2025

Since the end of WWII, Japanese voters have favored the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partners more than 90% of the time. What accounts for the LDP

10. Jobless and Divorced in Japan:

July 17, 2025

See how Japan

9. From the Heights of Japan

July 17, 2025

The Japanese economic miracle fueled steady growth in asset and stock values that crashed spectacularly in the 1990s, eventually dropping by a catastrophic 75%. Study what made Japan

8. How Japan

July 17, 2025

By the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to overtake the US lead as the largest and most innovative economy in the world. Emblematic of Japan

7. The Rise of Japanese Cinema

July 17, 2025

Trace the shifting public mood in Japan through its popular and award-winning films. Mark highlights some of his favorites

6. Japan Faces the Nixon Shocks: China and Gold

July 17, 2025

Learn how a misunderstood Japanese euphemism shaped US President Richard Nixon

5. Japan Inc. and Its Upstart Challengers

July 17, 2025

Investigate the causes of the Japanese economic miracle, especially the planning role of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Observe that market success sometimes came in spite of the MITI

4. Japan

July 17, 2025

Focus on the 1960 political crisis over a new security treaty with the US that ironically brought an era of stability to Japanese politics. Then-prime minister Kishi Nobusuke used dictatorial methods to outflank leftist opponents, causing his own downfall, but also establishing a rule for his successors: Don

3. The Japanese Economic Miracle: Empire 2.0

July 17, 2025

How did postwar Japan go from utter devastation and poverty to astonishing prosperity? Focus on the role of American occupation authorities in setting up Japan for success, both by design and by accident. See how the promotion of free trade and land reform paved the way for growth; political reform encouraged new blood and new ideas; and the Korean War provided a windfall of export opportunities.

2. How the US Occupation Remade Japan, 1945

July 17, 2025

Probe the reasoning that led US occupying forces, headed by General Douglas MacArthur, to exonerate the Japanese emperor from any responsibility for his country

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The Rise of Modern Japan is available for streaming on the The Great Courses website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch The Rise of Modern Japan on demand at Apple TV Channels, Prime Video and Amazon.