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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 520 – The Age of Chaos

February 16, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week on the Revised Intro to Japanese History: the social, religious, and economic changes of the Sengoku period. Though…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Art, culture, economics, History, Japan, religion, 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 517 – The Center Cannot Hold

January 26, 2024 Isaac Meyer

This week: the Muromachi bakufu comes crashing down, thanks to a combination of structural weaknesses and a shogun who is…

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

Episode 488 – The Nation’s Kitchen, Part 2

June 9, 2023 Isaac Meyer

Note: due to a numbering error on my end, I recorded this episode as 487. It is actually 488. This…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: History, Japan, Osaka, Sengoku, Tokugawa, Toyotomi

Episode 431 – The Tale of Nakako, Part 1

March 25, 2022 Isaac Meyer

This week on the podcast, we’re exploring the life of a woman whose story would normally be confined to the…

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

Episode 427 – The Ones Who Walked Away

February 25, 2022 Isaac Meyer 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 424 – The City on the Edge of Forever, Part 3

February 4, 2022 Isaac Meyer

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

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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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