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Episode 475 – Southward, Ho! Part 4

March 3, 2023 Isaac Meyer

This week: Japan’s empire in Micronesia comes apart under the face of both the miscalculations of military leadership and the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: colonialism, History, Japan, Micronesia, WWII

Episode 403 – Yet Shall He Find a Thousand Troubles

August 27, 2021 Isaac Meyer 3 Comments

This week, we’re discussing Japan’s reckoning with its wartime past through the lens of the nation’s self-appointed conscience: the historian…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Education, History, Ienaga, Japan, Postwar, WWII

Episode 374 – The First Frontier, Part 5

January 29, 2021 Isaac Meyer 2 Comments

This week, we’re wrapping up our history of the colonization of Hokkaido with a look at the impact of the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Ainu, History, hokkaido, Japan, WWII

Episode 366 – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Part 2

November 27, 2020 Isaac Meyer 1 Comment

This week, we cover Sorge’s career in Tokyo, and explore just how he was able to convince so many people…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Communism, History, Japan, USSR, WWII

Episode 365 – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Part 1

November 20, 2020 Isaac Meyer 3 Comments

This week, we begin our exploration of the life and career of Richard Sorge, one of the most famous spies…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Communism, History, Japan, Russia, USSR, WWII

Episode 352 – The Rising Sun Will Come to Us From Heaven, Part 4

August 21, 2020 Isaac Meyer 2 Comments

This week, we’ll cover the striving of Japanese Christians to be accepted as genuine patriots by the government during the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: Christianity, History, Japan, religion, WWII

Episode 247 – Edokko

July 7, 2018 Isaac Meyer

This week, we’re very lucky to have a chance to speak with Mr. Isaac Shapiro. Mr. Shapiro grew up in…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Podcasts Filed under: History, Japan, Tokyo, WWII

Episode 142 – Nanjing, Part 1

March 26, 2016 Isaac Meyer 3 Comments

NOTE: Though there is substantial photographic evidence of the massacre, I am not going to post it directly on the…

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Posted in: History of Japan Podcast, Uncategorized Filed under: China, Nanjing, WWII

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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