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Episode 567 – The Revolutionary, Part 2

February 28, 2025 Isaac Meyer

This week: Miyazaki Manabu completes his transformation from son of a yakuza boss to a committed member of the Communist…

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

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 182 – Building Better Worlds

February 18, 2017 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’re doing a biography of the little known Buddhist socialist Seno’o Giro. How do you reconcile Buddhism and…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Buddhism, Japan, Socialism

Episode 181 – Red Star Over Tokyo, Part 6

February 11, 2017 Isaac Meyer

This week, we round out our look at the hard left in Japan. Militant communist uprisings (if less than 100…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Socialism

Episode 179 – Red Star Over Tokyo, Part 4

January 28, 2017 Isaac Meyer

This week, the floodgates are open! The system has fallen, and the left is poised to seize power…or not! Listen…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: Communism, Socialism

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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