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Episode 351 – The Rising Sun Will Come to Us From Heaven, Part 3

August 14, 2020 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we’re going to talk about the heyday of Japanese Christianity during the Imperial era: the 1870s and 1880s,…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Christianity, History, Japan, Meiji, religion

Episode 350 – The Rising Sun Will Come to Us From Heaven, Part 2

August 7, 2020 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’re talking about Christianity during the Bakumatsu Period — the era that saw the forced opening of Japan…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Christianity, Edo, History, Japan, Meiji, religion

Episode 344 – Blackness in Japan, Part 2

June 26, 2020 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we look at Japan’s relationship with blackness and black communities in the wake of the Meiji Restoration, and…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: America, black, History, Japan, Meiji, race

Episode 317 – Separate Ways

December 13, 2019 Isaac Meyer 2 Comments

This week, we explore the career of the first woman to make a big splash in modern Japanese literature: Higuchi…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Higuchi, History, Japan, literature, Meiji

Episode 316 – The Entrepreneur

December 6, 2019 Isaac Meyer 2 Comments

This week, it’s time to talk backroom deals and business trickery, because we’re chronicling the rise of Mitsubishi and the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: economics, History, Japan, Meiji, mitsubishi

Episode 312 – Freedom and People’s Rights, Part 3

November 1, 2019 Isaac Meyer

This week, we look at the violent incidents that eventually undermined the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement, and the legacies…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: democracy, freedom, History, Japan, Meiji

Episode 311 – Freedom and People’s Rights, Part 2

October 25, 2019 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

How do you talk about a movement without clear leaders? By breaking down its different levels. Plus, a look at…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: freedom, History, Japan, jiyu, Jiyuto, Meiji, minken, rights

Episode 310 – Freedom and People’s Rights, Part 1

October 18, 2019 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’re starting a look at the Jiyu Minken Undo — the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement — by…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: democracy, freedom, History, Japan, jiyu, Meiji, minken

Episode 301 – Stand Up For Your Rights, Part 1

August 16, 2019 Isaac Meyer

While the Meiji Restoration was going on, where was everybody else? We’ll start trying to answer that question today with…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: bakufu, Edo, History, Japan, Meiji, shindatsu, Tokugawa

Episode 298 – The Ghost of Japan Past

July 26, 2019 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we profile one of the great Western interpreters of Japan: Lafcadio Hearn. How did some Anglo-Greek kid end…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: hearn, History, Japan, Meiji

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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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