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Episode 533 – At the Table or On the TAble

June 14, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: Japan joins the ranks of the great powers by building its…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: China, colonialism, History, hokkaido, Japan, Korea, Meiji, Okinawa, Russia

Episode 526 – The Outside World and Tokugawa Japan

April 5, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: “closed country” isn’t quite the full story. How did Japan maintain…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: China, Dutch, Edo, History, hokkaido, Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Tokugawa

Episode 374 – The First Frontier, Part 5

January 29, 2021 Isaac Meyer 2 Comments

This week, we’re wrapping up our history of the colonization of Hokkaido with a look at the impact of the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Ainu, History, hokkaido, Japan, WWII

Episode 374 – The First Frontier, Part 4

January 22, 2021 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we’re talking about Hokkaido in the early 20th century, and in particular the stark problems created by the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Ainu, Anarchism, History, hokkaido, Japan

Episode 373 – The First Frontier, Part 3

January 15, 2021 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’re looking at the early decades of Japan’s colonization of Hokkaido, and the means by which the island…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Ainu, colonialism, History, hokkaido, Japan, Meiji

Episode 372 – The First Frontier, Part 2

January 8, 2021 Isaac Meyer

This week: how did the threat of Western imperialism change the relationship between mainland Japan and Hokkaido, and help set…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Ainu, Edo, Ezo, History, hokkaido, Japan, Meiji, Tokugawa

Episode 371 – The First Frontier, Part 1

January 1, 2021 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we’re starting a multi-part series on the history of one of Japan’s major islands, and its first colonial…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Ainu, History, hokkaido, Japan, matsumae

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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