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Episode 545 – The Extreme Right in Postwar Japan, Part 1

September 13, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week’s footnote: the first of two parts on the postwar extreme right. This week, we’re mostly focusing on the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Anpo, extremism, Fascism, History, Japan, Postwar

Episode 444 – The Crysanthemum Taboo

July 1, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week: how did a spate of right wing violence in the early years of the 1960s help to fundamentally…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: 1960s, Anpo, History, Japan, Postwar

Episode 443 – The Collapse

June 24, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week: why did the Japanese Socialist Party and the left more generally utterly fail to capitalize on the momentum…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Anpo, History, Japan, JSP, Postwar, Socialism

Episode 244 – The Summer of Rage, Part 1

June 16, 2018 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we look at the contentious summer of 1960, in which the disputes of postwar Japan boiled over into…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Anpo, History, Japan, protests

Episode 55 – Peace in Our Time

May 31, 2014 Isaac Meyer 2 Comments

This week, we’re going to be talking about the origins and background of Article 9, the peace clause of Japan’s…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Abe Shinzo, Anpo, Article 9

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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