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Episode 445 – A Bowl for a Coin

July 8, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week: we tend to think of tea in terms of the tea ceremony and fancy culture, but what about…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: economics, History, Japan, tea

Episode 396 – A Slice of the Pie, Part 3

June 25, 2021 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we’re covering the transformation of the collapsed LTCB into the revived Shinsei (“New Life”) Bank, and the motley…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: banking, bubble, economics, History, Japan

Episode 395 – A Slice of the Pie, Part 2

June 18, 2021 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week: a combination of political scandals, tabloid journalism, institutional inertia, and of course the goddamn Swiss lead to the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: banking, bubble, economics, History, Japan, LTCB

Episode 316 – The Entrepreneur

December 6, 2019 Isaac Meyer 2 Comments

This week, it’s time to talk backroom deals and business trickery, because we’re chronicling the rise of Mitsubishi and the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: economics, History, Japan, Meiji, mitsubishi

Episode 294 – What Goes Up, Part 5

June 21, 2019 Isaac Meyer

This week, the effects of the collapsing asset bubble spread as the extent of the damage caused is revealed; Japan’s…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Asset Bubble, bubble, economics, History, Japan, lost decade

Episode 293 – What Goes Up, Part 4

June 14, 2019 Isaac Meyer

This week, it all starts to come crumbling down. Japan is plagued by scandals that destroy public confidence at the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: 1980s, Asset Bubble, bubble, economics, History, Japan

Episode 292 – What Goes Up, Part 3

June 7, 2019 Isaac Meyer

The Plaza Accord was supposed to fix the US-Japan relationship. How did that work out? Sources A partial translation of The…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: 1980s, bubble, economics, History, Japan

Episode 290 – What Goes Up, Part 1

May 24, 2019 Isaac Meyer

This week, we turn our attention to the 1980s. Japan and the United States find their relationship wracked by increasing…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: 1980s, Asset Bubble, bubble, economics, History, Japan

Episode 269 – The Revolution Will Not Be Live

December 22, 2018 Isaac Meyer

This week, we cover the little-known “Chichibu Incident,” an uprising against the Meiji government in 1884 that saw several thousand…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Chichibu, economics, History, Japan, rebellion

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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