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Episode 185 – Lifting the Lost, Part 3

March 18, 2017 Isaac Meyer

This week: where did Japan’s constitution come from, and how the hell did it get done in only six days?…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Occupation

Episode 184 – Lifting the Lost, Part 2

March 11, 2017 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

The Occupation begins! This week, we’ll set the stage with a focus on the relationship between Supreme Commander Douglass MacArthur…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: MacArthur, Occupation

Episode 183 – Lifting the Lost, Part 1

March 4, 2017 Isaac Meyer 3 Comments

This week, we turn our attention to the US Occupation of Japan. When did Americans first start thinking seriously about…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: MacArthur, Occupation

Episode 182 – Building Better Worlds

February 18, 2017 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’re doing a biography of the little known Buddhist socialist Seno’o Giro. How do you reconcile Buddhism and…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Buddhism, Japan, Socialism

Episode 181 – Red Star Over Tokyo, Part 6

February 11, 2017 Isaac Meyer

This week, we round out our look at the hard left in Japan. Militant communist uprisings (if less than 100…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Socialism

Episode 180 – Red Star Over Tokyo, Part 5

February 4, 2017 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’ll see how the advent of the Liberal Democratic Party kept Japan’s socialist and communist parties from real…

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Episode 179 – Red Star Over Tokyo, Part 4

January 28, 2017 Isaac Meyer

This week, the floodgates are open! The system has fallen, and the left is poised to seize power…or not! Listen…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Communism, Socialism

Episode 178 – Red Star Over Tokyo, Part 3

January 21, 2017 Isaac Meyer

Today, a specter is haunting Japan. But that specter is not communism; it’s the ghost of the communist party, dead…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Communism, Marxism

Episode 177 – Red Star Over Tokyo, Part 2

January 14, 2017 Isaac Meyer

The revolution comes to Japan…but not really. Today we explore the birth and very rapid death of Japan’s first socialist…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Marxism

Episode 176 – Red Star Over Tokyo, Part 1

January 7, 2017 Isaac Meyer

Today, we’ll turn our attention to a set of ideas that will ultimately fall flat on their face in Japan…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Japan, Marxism

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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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