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Tag: Sengoku

Episode 41 – Striking from the Shadows

February 15, 2014 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we’re going to discuss the ninja, or at least what we can discern about them from the limited…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Japan, Ninja, Sengoku, Tokugawa

Episode 38 – Japan’s Christian Century, Part 1

January 25, 2014 Isaac Meyer

This is part one of an eventual three part series on the rise and fall of Christianity in medieval Japan.…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Christianity, Francis Xavier, Portugal, Sengoku

Episode 22 – The Way of the Warrior

September 8, 2013 Isaac Meyer

For our first listener-submitted topic, we’re tackling Bushido: the warrior code of the samurai class. We’ll discuss the evolution of…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Bushido, Meiji, Samurai, Sengoku, Tokugawa

Episode 8 – The Three Unifiers

May 17, 2013 Isaac Meyer

To make up for saying I might not get an episode to you this week, I offer you the new…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Azuchi-Momoyama, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Oda Nobunaga, Sengoku, Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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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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