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Episode 25 – The Shadow Shogun

October 6, 2013 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week we will be discussing the great political wheeler and dealer of modern Japanese politics: Tanaka Kakuei. We will…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Dokken Kokka, LDP, Money-power Politics, Ozawa Ichiro, Takeshita Noboru, Tanaka Kakuei

Episode 24 – In Buddha’s Name: The Rise and Fall of the Ikkō Ikki, Part 2

September 22, 2013 Isaac Meyer

We’ll be wrapping up our discussion of the Ikkō Ikki this week, as the unstoppable force of the militant wing…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Ikko Ikki, Jodo Shinshu, Kennyo, Oda Nobunaga, Shibata Katsuie, Tokugawa Ieyasu

Episode 23 – In Buddha’s Name: The Rise and Fall of the Ikkō Ikki, Part 1

September 15, 2013 Isaac Meyer

For our first two-part episode, we’re going to discuss the Ikkō Ikki, a militant insurrection of believers in the faith…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Ikko Ikki, Jodo Shinshu, Rennyo, Sengoku period, True Pure Land Buddhism

Episode 22 – The Way of the Warrior

September 8, 2013 Isaac Meyer

For our first listener-submitted topic, we’re tackling Bushido: the warrior code of the samurai class. We’ll discuss the evolution of…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Bushido, Meiji, Samurai, Sengoku, Tokugawa

Episode 21 – The Crash

September 1, 2013 Isaac Meyer 3 Comments

For our final outline episode, we’ll be tackling the origins and effects of the real-estate bubble which devastated the Japanese…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Asset Bubble, LDP, Murayama

Your Podcast Needs You…Again!

August 27, 2013 Isaac Meyer

Hello all! We’re coming up on the end of the outline episodes (the last one will be out on Sunday),…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized

Episode 20 – Japan as Number One

August 26, 2013 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’ll be talking about the height of postwar Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. On the surface, it’s…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Education, LDP, Society, Tanaka Kakuei

Episode 19 – Rising from the Ashes

August 17, 2013 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’re going to discuss the postwar strategy that enabled Japan to revive itself after World War II. In…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Ikeda Hayato, LDP, Liberal Democratic Party, Occupation, Sato Eisaku, Yoshida Shigeru

Episode 18 – Enduring the Unendurable

August 11, 2013 Isaac Meyer

This week’s episode is an overview of the Allied Occupation of Japan. In just seven years (1945-1952), the Allies undertook…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: International Military Tribunal for the Far East, MacArthur, Occupation, Tokyo Trials, Treaty of San Francisco

Episode 17 – He Who Saves One Life, Saves an Entire World

August 3, 2013 Isaac Meyer 5 Comments

This week, we’ll be discussing the life and career of Sugihara Chiune, a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Holocaust, Judaism, Lithuania, Sughiara

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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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