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Episode 500 – The 500th Episode

This week, it’s a listener question episode! Let’s talk about the topics I’d like to cover, a D&D party made…

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Episode 464 – The Wolves of Mibu

A long-requested dive into the ronin police force known as the Shinsengumi. Who were the members of this group, and how, despite their rather marginal role in the history of the 1860s, have they become one of the most famous organizations in Japanese history?

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Bakumatsu, History, Japan, Meiji, Postwar, Samurai 1 Comment

Episode 463 – The Afterlives of a Samurai

This week is all about a biography of a fascinating figure of the Meiji Restoration: Oguri Tadamasa. But it’s also about much more: about how the present shapes our view of the past, and about how, as a result, the ways we talk about someone long dead can shift and change as well.

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Episode 440 – Tipping the Balance

The Jokyu Rebellion is one of the more minor conflicts in Japanese history; yet it also represents a tipping of…

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Episode 405 – The Road Not Taken

This week, we’re talking about one of the last attempts to save the Tokugawa shogunate: the Tenpo Reforms of the…

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Episode 372 – The First Frontier, Part 2

This week: how did the threat of Western imperialism change the relationship between mainland Japan and Hokkaido, and help set…

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Episode 332 – Lady Kasuga

This week, we tackle the life of one of Japan’s most interesting women, who rose from obscure origins to become…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Edo, History, Japan, kasuga, Tokugawa, Women

Episode 308 – The Prisoners of Nanbu, Part 3

This week, the crew of the Breskens is freed at last. Plus some final thoughts on Tokugawa diplomacy. Sources Hesselink,…

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Episode 301 – Stand Up For Your Rights, Part 1

While the Meiji Restoration was going on, where was everybody else? We’ll start trying to answer that question today with…

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Episode 277 – The House of Cards, Part 5

This week, we arrive at the end of the Ashikaga. What were the final 100 years of Ashikaga “rule” like,…

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About Me

My name is Isaac Meyer, and I’m a  former PhD student at the University of Washington, specializing in modern Japan (with sub-specializations in modern China, modern Europe, and international relations). Today, I work as a teacher at an independent school in the Seattle area.

I also have a tendency to go off on random historical tangents. One day, I decided to combine these two traits in podcast form, and thus was born the History of Japan Podcast!

In 2018, I decided start the Criminal Records Podcast with my wife, Demetria Spinrad. This podcast gives me the chance to talk about world history–and the weird, wonderful world of historical crime and punishment.

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