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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 542 – The Heart of Darkness

August 16, 2024 Isaac Meyer

For our second footnote to the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: a simple question that definitely won’t result in an…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Fascism, History, Japan, Politics, WWII

Episode 204 – No Peace Without War

August 5, 2017 Isaac Meyer

This week we tackle the question of Japanese fascism by looking at one of Japan’s foremost fascists, the authoritarian scholar…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Fascism

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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