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Episode 273 – The House of Cards, Part 1

This week we start a multipart series on the Muromachi period and the reign of the Ashikaga family. How did…

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Episode 272 – I am the Law!

This week we cover the life and career of the legendary judge Oka Tadasuke, who rose from minor samurai to…

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

Episode 242 – Castaway

This week, the story of Nakahama Manjiro, the castaway turned American whaler turned gold miner turned samurai turned English professor.…

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Episode 131 – The Fall of the Samurai, Part 14

  In early 1868, the armies of the loyalists and the Tokugawa bakufu will clash outside Kyoto. We’ll discuss the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Bakumatsu, Boshin War, Tokugawa 2d Comments

Episode 130 – The Fall of the Samurai, Part 13

  This week, we cover 1867: the final year of the Tokugawa shogunate (sort of). Caught between a loyalist rock…

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Episode 127 – The Fall of the Samurai, Part 10

1864 is probably the most important year in the Meiji Restoration that nobody really has heard of; the Tokugawa will…

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Episode 124 – The Fall of the Samurai, Part 8

This week, the turbulent politics following the death of Ii Naosuke will result in the rise of one of the…

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Episode 44 – A Review of The Last Samurai

This week, we’ll be going all Tom Cruise for our second media review, and discussing the actual history behind the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Jules Brunet, Meiji, Saigo Takamori, The Last Samurai

Episode 43 – The Great Traitor

This week, we’ll be doing our second shogunal biography. We’re going to discuss the life and legacy of the man…

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Travels in Japan, Part 1 – Sakuradamon, Kan’eiji, and Yokohama

So, for those of you who aren’t caught up yet — I’m in Japan doing some summer work for the…

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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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