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Episode 162 – Best of Frenemies, Part 8

August 27, 2016 Isaac Meyer 2 Comments

  This week, we close out this series with a look at the relationship between South Korea and Japan. Also…

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

Episode 132 – The Fall of the Samurai, Part 15

January 16, 2016 Isaac Meyer 5 Comments

This week, we’ll cover the military campaigns of 1868. Edo will (surprisingly anticlimactically) fall, the north will rebel, and Matsudaira…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Bakumatsu, Boshin War, Japan, Tokugawa

Episode 66 – An Unnatural Intimacy, Part 4.

August 29, 2014 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’ll discuss the Second Konoe Cabinet, which was torn by indecision and plagued by bad leadership. The Japanese…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Axis, Germany, Japan, Soviet Union

Episode 64 – An Unnatural Intimacy, Part 2

August 16, 2014 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’ll discuss America and Japan’s new roles as Great Powers in the 20th century. We’ll discuss the reasons Japan…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Japan, Versailles, WWI

Episode 59 – The Only Women in the Room

July 4, 2014 Isaac Meyer 2 Comments

This week, we’re covering two women whose work in the Occupation helped reshape Japan into a modern state. Beate Sirota…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Beate Sirota, Eleanor Hadley, History, Japan, SCAP

Episode 53 – The Sun Queen

May 17, 2014 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’re going to take a look at the first figure in recorded Japanese history: Himiko, queen of Yamatai.…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Himiko, Japan, Yamatai

Episode 41 – Striking from the Shadows

February 15, 2014 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we’re going to discuss the ninja, or at least what we can discern about them from the limited…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Japan, Ninja, Sengoku, Tokugawa

Episode 14 – The Course of Empire

July 14, 2013 Isaac Meyer

Resuming our regularly scheduled programming, we will be turning this week to Japanese foreign policy from 1895 to 1940. There’s…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Chiang Kai-shek, China, History, Japan, Manchukuo, Manchuria, Russo-Japanese War, World War I

We’re live on iTunes!

April 17, 2013 Isaac Meyer

The podcast is now available on the iTunes store at the following link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-japan/id635736811 You should be able to locate…

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

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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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