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Episode 427 – The Ones Who Walked Away

February 25, 2022 ijmeyer 1 Comment

This week, we’re taking some material from the cutting room floor of last series to talk about the stories of…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Christianity, History, Japan, Nagasaki, Samurai, Sengoku

Episode 426 – The City on the Edge of Forever, Part 5

February 18, 2022 ijmeyer 1 Comment

Our final episode of this miniseries will detail the early decades of the Christian persecutions in Nagasaki. Once the religion…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Christianity, History, Japan, Nagasaki, Tokugawa

Episode 425 – The City on the Edge of Forever, Part 4

February 11, 2022 ijmeyer

This week, Hideyoshi’s death seems to suggest an end to the persecution of Nagasaki’s Christians. However, the city quickly finds…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Christianity, History, Japan, Nagasaki, Tokugawa

Episode 424 – The City on the Edge of Forever, Part 3

February 4, 2022 ijmeyer

This week: Hideyoshi’s ‘friendship’ proves less useful than hoped, resulting in a 1587 ban on Christianity and Nagasaki losing its…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Christianity, History, Japan, Nagasaki, Sengoku

Episode 423 – The City on the Edge of Forever, Part 2

January 28, 2022 ijmeyer

This week, Christian Nagasaki survives its early trials and tribulations to become a Jesuit fortress-town, and a centerpiece of some…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Christianity, History, Japan, Kyushu, Nagasaki, Sengoku

Episode 422 – The City on the Edge of Forever, Part 1

January 21, 2022 ijmeyer 4 Comments

This week, we’re covering the founding of Japan’s most unusual city: Nagasaki, unique among major Japanese cities in being founded…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: History, Japan, Jesuit, Nagasaki, Sengoku

Episode 388 – The First of Us

April 30, 2021 ijmeyer 1 Comment

We’re trapped in a loop this week as Isaac talks about another Isaac: specifically, Isaac Titsingh, a member of the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Dutch, Edo, History, Japan, Nagasaki

Episode 246 – There and Back Again

June 30, 2018 ijmeyer

This week, we cover the story of Engelbert Kaempfer, who wrote one of the most thorough and best known accounts…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Dutch, Edo, History, Japan, Nagasaki

Episode 39 – Japan’s Christian Century, Part 2

February 1, 2014 ijmeyer 2 Comments

This week, we’ll continue our discussion of Japan’s Christian century with the high-point of Christian missionizing in Japan, starting with…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Catholicism, Christianity, Francis Xavier, Nagasaki, Otomo

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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