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Tag: Postwar

Episode 468 – To Eat Their Own

January 13, 2023 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’re looking at the implosion of the Japanese New Left with a focus on the factional conflicts of…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, History, Japan, Postwar, Zengakuren

Episode 467 – The Cause of Peace

January 6, 2023 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’re looking at a very different kind of 60s protest movement: an attempt to build a cross-sectarian, non-ideological…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: 1960s, History, Japan, Postwar, vietnam

Episode 465 – Rebels Without a Cause, Part 1

December 16, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we’re beginning a month on radical activism in the 1960s with a look at the student uprisings of…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: 1960s, 1968, History, Japan, Postwar, students

Episode 464 – The Wolves of Mibu

December 9, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week: a long-requested dive into the ronin police force known as the Shinsengumi. Who were the members of this…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Bakumatsu, History, Japan, Meiji, Postwar, Samurai

Episode 463 – The Afterlives of a Samurai

December 2, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week is all about a biography of a fascinating figure of the Meiji Restoration: Oguri Tadamasa. But it’s also…

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

Episode 453 – The Waves are High But the Day is Clear, Part 2

September 9, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week: how has the JMSDF gone from an afterthought to a central part of Japan’s security planning? Sources Patalano,…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: History, Japan, Postwar, SDF

Episode 452 – The Waves are High but the Day is Clear, Part 1

September 2, 2022 Isaac Meyer

This week: the start of a two part series on the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces. Today: how did Japan’s current…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: History, Japan, Postwar, SDF

Episode 444 – The Crysanthemum Taboo

July 1, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week: how did a spate of right wing violence in the early years of the 1960s help to fundamentally…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: 1960s, Anpo, History, Japan, Postwar

Episode 443 – The Collapse

June 24, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week: why did the Japanese Socialist Party and the left more generally utterly fail to capitalize on the momentum…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Anpo, History, Japan, JSP, Postwar, Socialism

Episode 442 – The Transistor Salesman

June 17, 2022 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we’re kicking off a short series on the transformations of 1960s Japan with a look at the unassuming…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: 1960s, History, Japan, LDP, Postwar

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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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