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Episode 547 – The Five Mountains, Part 1

September 27, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week on the Footnotes to the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: many describe Zen as the religion of the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Buddhism, History, Japan, Kamakura, religion, Samurai, Zen

Episode 530 – Bakumatsu, Part 3

May 10, 2024 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week: the age of feudalism comes crashing down, as in the span of just two years the Tokugawa shogunate…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Edo, feudalism, History, Japan, Samurai, Tokugawa

Episode 527 – The Beginning of the End

April 12, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: crises about during the late Edo period. A crisis of samurai…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Edo, History, Japan, Samurai, Tokugawa

Episode 524 – The Tokugawa System

March 22, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: how did the Tokugawa bakufu operate? What did the political structure…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Edo, History, Japan, Samurai, Shogun, shogunate, Tokugawa

Episode 523 – Reunification, Part 3

March 15, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: Hideyoshi may have brought peace, but Tokugawa Ieyasu would be the…

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

Episode 522 – Reunification, Part 2

March 8, 2024 Isaac Meyer

With Nobunaga dead, we turn our attention to one of his generals: Hashiba Hideyoshi, who would take up leadership of…

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

Episode 521 – Reunification, Part 1

March 1, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week on the Revised Intro to Japanese History: the beginning of the end of the age of war and…

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

Episode 519 – The Low Conquers the High, Part 2

February 9, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week, we look at the flip side of the chaos of the Sengoku era in the form of two…

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

Episode 518 – The Low Conquers the High, Part 1

February 2, 2024 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: our first foray into the age of civil war! We’re looking…

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

Episode 516 – From the Ashes

January 19, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week: Go-Daigo’s regime collapses, and a second samurai government, the Muromachi bakufu, emerges. How did Ashikaga Takauji successfully establish…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Ashikaga, History, Japan, medieval, Muromachi, Samurai

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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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