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Tag: Edo

Episode 565 – Riot Girls

February 12, 2025 Isaac Meyer

This week: what do we know about women and the wrong end of the law during the Tokugawa Period? Given…

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

Episode 564 – You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party, Part 3

February 7, 2025 Isaac Meyer

This week: outside of big urban riots, how did violence figure into the daily life of the Edo period? To…

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

Episode 563 – You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party, Part 2

January 31, 2025 Isaac Meyer

This week, we cover the second and third of Edo’s three great riots in 1787 and 1866. How did samurai…

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

Episode 562 – You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party, Part 1

January 24, 2025 Isaac Meyer

This week: the first of three episodes on urban rioting in Tokugawa period Japan. This week, we’re covering the first…

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

Episode 558 – The Hack

December 20, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week, the story of an Edo period writer whose primary claim to fame was producing decent ripoffs of people…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Edo, History, Ihara Saikaku, Japan, literature

Episode 552 – The Road Less Taken

November 1, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week: what can we learn about the past if we look not at elite literature, but at the lowbrow…

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

Episode 530 – Bakumatsu, Part 3

May 10, 2024 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week: the age of feudalism comes crashing down, as in the span of just two years the Tokugawa shogunate…

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

Episode 529 – Bakumatsu, Part 2

May 3, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the sudden assassination of the tairo Ii Naosuke sparks the rapid…

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

Episode 528 – Bakumatsu, Part 1

April 26, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the beginning of the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. Commodore Perry’s…

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

Episode 527 – The Beginning of the End

April 12, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: crises about during the late Edo period. A crisis of samurai…

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

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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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