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Episode 454 – That All My Dreams Might Not Prove Empty

September 16, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week: in 1940, a manuscript lost for over 600 years is recovered from the archives of the Imperial family.…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Heian, History, Japan, Kamakura, Kyoto, Women

Episode 440 – Tipping the Balance

June 3, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

The Jokyu Rebellion is one of the more minor conflicts in Japanese history; yet it also represents a tipping of…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: History, Hojo, Japan, Kamakura, medieval, Samurai

Episode 210 – The Scourge of the Gods, Part 1

September 23, 2017 Isaac Meyer

This week: where did the Mongol Empire come from, and who was in charge when they decided to come after…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: History, Hojo, Japan, Kamakura, mongols

Episode 31 – The First Shogun

November 16, 2013 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’re going to take a look at the man credited with one of the greatest epochal changes in…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Hojo, Hojo Masako, Kamakura, Minamoto no Yoritomo

Episode 6 – A New Order

May 4, 2013 Isaac Meyer 2 Comments

This week’s episode is on the structure of the Kamakura bakufu, its war against the Mongol Yuan dynasty of China,…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Ashikaga, Hojo, Kamakura, Mongol Invasions, Muromachi, Noh, Pure Land Buddhism, Yuan, Zen

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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