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History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Episode 633 - The Catastrophe, Part 1

July 10, 2026 6:00am 37 min

The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 was one of the most devastating catastrophes in modern Japanese history, but in English scholarship it's often overshadowed by the destruction of the Second World War. This week we'll k...

Episode 632 - The Pretender, Part 2

July 03, 2026 6:00am 36 min

This week: the question of whether Hirohito would remain emperor of Japan or be replaced with "Emperor Kumazawa" was, in fact, decided before the Southern Court claimant had ever gone public. So why was the idea of remov...

Episode 631 - The Pretender, Part 1

June 26, 2026 6:00am 34 min

In January, 1946, a man came to the headquarters of the American occupation government of Japan and claimed to be Japan's true emperor. Who was he, why did he do this, and how does his story connect to an obscure figure ...

Episode 631 - An Interview with Evelyn Iritani

June 19, 2026 6:00am 44 min

First thing's first: I made a numbering error a few weeks back, and so to get us back on the correct count we're just going to skip episode 630! This week, I'm very lucky to be joined by journalist and writer (and Pulitz...

Bonus episode - The Chishima Incident

June 05, 2026 6:00am 1:03

We're coming up on the end of the school year here in the US and will have to briefly interrupt our normal programming. To tide you over, here's a bonus episode from my old podcast Criminal Records. We'll be back on June...

Episode 629 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 4

May 29, 2026 6:00am 36 min

Fate twists once again in Fujiwara no Michinaga's favor as an unfortunate accident of birth sees him solidify his grip on power. This week: the final steps of Michinaga's rise, his legacy, and that of Eiga Monogatari.  S...

Episode 628 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 3

May 22, 2026 6:00am 34 min

Fujiwara no Michinaga is on top of the world, but there's one final hurdle to overcome. His deceased brother's daughter is still the leader of the emperor's harem, and his closest confidant in the world. Without a grands...

Episode 627 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 2

May 15, 2026 6:00am 35 min

This week: Fujiwara no Kaneie is a name we've encountered once before on the podcast. But now we get to see him in his element as a wheeler and dealer who lays out a perfect blueprint for assuming political power from an...

Episode 626 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 1

May 08, 2026 6:00am 33 min

We're starting a new series taking a look at an oft neglected classic of Heian literature: The Eiga Monogatari, or Tale of Flowering Fortunes, which tells the history of the great Fujiwara family at the height of its pow...

Episode 625 - An Ocean Between Us, Part 3

May 01, 2026 6:00am 36 min

This week: in 1988, a Japanese company bought a paper mill in Port Angeles, WA, in a story that basically nobody except one reporter from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer bothered to pay much attention to. But in fact, tha...

Episode 625 - An Ocean Between Us, Part 2

April 24, 2026 6:00am 35 min

This week: rumors swirled around Port Angeles for decades after WWII that a Japanese man, Osasa Masaru, who had lived there from 1930-39 was in fact a Japanese spy who'd been sent to Port Angeles to report on the movemen...

Episode 624 - An Ocean Between Us, Part 1

April 17, 2026 6:00am 34 min

This week: what role does a sleepy town in Washington's Olympic Peninsula play in Japan's history? Well, more than you'd think. We'll look at three different connections between Japan and Port Angeles over the next few w...

Episode 623 - The Great Peace, Part 2

April 10, 2026 6:00am 35 min

This week: how does the Taiheiki depict its most famous characters? How does it describe the downfall of the Hojo? And from that, what can we say about the charge that it's purely derivative from a more famous text? Show...

Episode 622 - The Great Peace, Part 1

April 03, 2026 6:00am 36 min

The Taiheiki is arguably one of the most dismissed works of literature in Japanese history, doomed to always exist solely in comparison to the far more highly regarded Heike Monogatari. But even so, there's a lot to draw...

Episode 621 - The Manga Revolution, Part 3

March 27, 2026 6:00am 32 min

This week: the manga industry during World War II. Plus some thoughts on the development of shojo manga, and finally a look at Tezuka Osamu and the ways in which his work helped create the manga market that exists today....

Episode 620 - The Manga Revolution, Part 2

March 20, 2026 6:00am 32 min

Histories of manga tend to skip from the colorful woodblocks of the Edo period directly to the post-WWII industry we'd recognize today. But what do we lose when we do that? And what do we gain when we do investigate the ...

Episode 619 - The Manga Revolution, Part 1

March 13, 2026 6:00am 33 min

This week: manga is today one of the most ubiquitous forms of entertainment in Japan. But the idea of comics as we might understand them has a much longer history. So how did we get from there to here--what, in other wor...

Episode 618 - Live by the Sword

March 06, 2026 6:00am 36 min

This week, we're tackling the most legendary samurai in Japanese history: Miyamoto Musashi. Why is he so famous, what do we actually know about him, and why is there such a big gap between the story most are familiar wit...

Episode 617 - I am Legend, Part 4

February 27, 2026 6:00am 39 min

This week, we cover how the legend of Yoshitsune as told in Gikeiki describes his demise. Which is how his tale ends, unless of course you know the truth: that Yoshitsune actually escaped to Hokkaido, became a god, and t...

Episode 616 - I am Legend, Part 3

February 20, 2026 6:00am 33 min

This week, we come to the text that more than any other helps build the Yoshitsune legend: Gikeiki. Here, at long last, we see the legend of Yoshitsune taking a form that a modern audience might recognize--and in the pro...

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