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The Siege of Osaka Castle in the winter of 1614-15 and the final Battle for Osaka Castle in the summer of 1615 marks the final chapter in the Sengoku Jidai. After years of rivalry between the forces of the Toyotomi and the Tokugawa the final question of who would dominate Japan for the next few hundred years was decided - but not before conspiracy, cowardice, spanked bottoms and cross dressing was tried as a winning strategy! Here is a map of the events discussed in the podcast.
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History of Japan
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This week: why did the American government think it was necessary to round up Nikkei on the West Coast? And what did that policy mean for the people who actually lived it?
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History of Japan
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This week we cover the life and career of the legendary judge Oka Tadasuke, who rose from minor samurai to the rank of daimyo and a major position in the bakufu -- only to become a legendary figure. Who is he? How did he rise so high? And what can he tell us about the role of judges and bureaucrats in Japanese society more generally?
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, edo, tokugawa
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History of Japan
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This week, we turn our attention to the 1980s. Japan and the United States find their relationship wracked by increasing tensions over political and economic relations, and turn to the solution of an agreement designed to ease the pressure of Japan's economic growth. The result? Japan's infamous Bubble Era!
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History of Japan
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This week: did the postwar period destroy the soul of Japanese culture? Mishima Yukio certainly thought so. We'll explore his life, his career, and the unusual manner of his untimely death this week!
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History of Japan
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This week: your questions! What places are fun to visit Japanese? How do you learn Japanese outside of school? And does the Emperor obey traffic laws when he drives himself? All that and more today!
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History of Japan
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This week, we'll be discussing the history and possible future of Article 9, the peace clause of Japan's constitution. Where did it come from? How has it been interpreted? What does its future look like? All that, this week!
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History of Japan
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This week: the Taira family continue their rise to prominence, the Minamoto get stuck spinning their wheels for a few decades, and warrior violence makes its way to Kyoto. All that, plus the hottest court gossip of the 1120s, this week.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, samurai, history, minamoto, taira
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History of Japan
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This week, we're going to talk about the evolution of manga. We'll discuss the roots of the comic form in Japan, both Eastern and Western, and its rapid explosion in popularity after World War II.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, manga
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History of Japan
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This week, we cover Sorge's career in Tokyo, and explore just how he was able to convince so many people that he was exactly what he was not -- a loyal Nazi here to report on Japan for the benefit of Hitler's regime. Plus, some thoughts on Sorge's significance in the history of the Second World War. Show notes here.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, communism, ww2, ussr, sorge
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History of Japan
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As the 1950s become the 1960s, the truth of Chisso's failure to address its problems comes out thanks to a new round of poisoning on the other side of Japan. The people of Minamata seek justice for themselves. Show notes here.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, mercury, minamata, chisso
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History of Japan
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This week, we round out our look at the celebrated women of Heian Japan with two very different careers: that of the celebrated poet Akazome Emon and the recluse known either as Takasue's daughter or Lady Sarashina. Plus some final thoughts on women in the Heian era.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesewomen, japan, history, poetry, heian
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History of Japan
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This week: why is a military failure worth 7 episodes of our time? The legacy of the Mongol invasions of Japan, explained.
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History of Japan
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This week we'll finish up our two-parter on Japanese-Okinawan relations with a look at Okinawa during the Imperial Period. We'll be focusing heavily on the bloody Battle of Okinawa, and then wrap things up by looking at the relationship between the islands and the Japanese mainland today.This week's episode is rather more graphic and violent than usual -- I could not in good conscience whitewash the battle, but I do feel I should warn those of you who might be offended by such things to pass on...
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesewar, japan, history, pacific, okinawa
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History of Japan
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This week, we look at the Revisionist critiques of the atomic bomb. Why did America use it, and was it really necessary to end the Pacific War?
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History of Japan
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The war rages on as the Japanese land in Port Arthur and press the attack, and Oyama Iwao advances north. The Russians will attempt to make a stand as divisions open up in their leadership.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, russia, manchuria
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History of Japan
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This week: war in the Ashikaga age. Plus; the reign of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is generally considered the zenith of Ashikaga prestige, but why was his power built on such shaky foundations? Once the Ashikaga had seized control of Japan, how did they go about actually governing it?
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, muromachi, ashikaga
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History of Japan
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This week, we talk about what it took to make a peace on paper a peace in fact. With millions of Japanese civilians and soldiers scattered across Asia, what would it take to get them all home again?
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, occupation, pows
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History of Japan
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This week, we tackle a political scandal from 1930s Japan to dig deeper into the question: just why did Japan's system of parliamentary government and liberal democracy, which seemed to be flourishing in the 1920s, fall apart so quickly in the 1930s? Show notes here.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, scandal, teijin
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History of Japan
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This week, we're turning our attention to Christianity in Japan after the \"Christian Century.\" Despite its status as a minority religion in Japan, Christianity has had a major historical impact on the country. How did this happen? We'll start this week by looking at the Christian persecutions which destroyed the communities built by European missionaries in the 1500s. Show notes here.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, religion, christianity, edo
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History of Japan
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This week: how do historians learn about the lives of everyday people? Let's take a look at how it's done by thinking about a group of people often overlooked in histories of the Edo period even though they made up half the population: women. Show notes here.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesewomen, japan, samurai, history, feminism, gender, edo
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History of Japan
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This week -- what was colonial Korea like? We'll do a quick overview of 35 years of colonial economic, political, and social policy to give you a feel for what Japan's goals in Korea were and how those goals effected the lives of ordinary Koreans.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, korea, colonialism
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History of Japan
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We'll be wrapping up our discussion of the Ikko Ikki this week, as the unstoppable force of the militant wing of Jodo Shinshu meets the immovable objects of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga. What follows is a tale of treachery, war, and revenge worthy of an HBO miniseries.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, jodo, toyotomi, nobunaga, ikki, oda, shinshu,...
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History of Japan
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This week, we're wrapping up our history of the colonization of Hokkaido with a look at the impact of the American occupation on the island, as well as some final thoughts on the modern history of the Ainu and their political organizing. Show notes here.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, wwii, hokkaido, ainu
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History of Japan
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It's time for the Imperial Japanese Navy to bail out the Imperial Japanese Army. But first, let's enjoy the Russian Baltic Fleet's Party Cruise to the Pacific!
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History of Japan
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This week: one of Japan's most famous Buddhist masters, Kukai, takes center stage!
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, buddhism, shingon, kukai
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History of Japan
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This week, we cover the little-known \"Chichibu Incident,\" an uprising against the Meiji government in 1884 that saw several thousand people take up arms against the state. Where did it come from? How did the rebellion fare? And what is its connection to the broader trends of Japanese history?
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, economics, rebellion, chichibu
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History of Japan
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This week, we're beginning an overview of black history in Japan with a focus on the Sengoku and Edo eras, and especially the fascinating tale of Yasuke. What sources do we have for this moment of cultural contact? Show notes here.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japaneseblack, japan, history, african, edo, sengoku, yasuke
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History of Japan
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Today, we dive into the boyhood of Emperor Hirohito. What's it like growing up always knowing that your life is a political tool? How do you process your middle school principal killing himself in a show of loyalty to your grandfather?
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History of Japan
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This week, we'll continue our discussion of Japan's Christian century with the high-point of Christian missionizing in Japan, starting with the arrival of St. Francis Xavier. Xavier's mission will mark the start of Christianity's spread through the islands, but within half a century the progress of the missionary movement will have halted and Japan's Christians and the powers that support them will be facing serious threats to their power and position.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, christianity, catholicism, francis, xavier,...
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History of Japan
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This week, we consider a figure who appears in two stories from the ancient collection of tales known as the Konjaku Monogatari: the bandit chief Hakamadare. What do we know about him? What do the stories say about him? And what can we learn from those tales?
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, heian, hakamadare
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History of Japan
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This week, we cover poet and political activist Yosano Akiko in her drift from icon of the political left to polemicist for the ultranationalist right. What kind of life trajectory drives a person that way? Why did she follow that path? And why did she write so many poems about breasts?
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, poetry, feminism
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History of Japan
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This week; what exactly happened during the final, fateful weeks of World War II? What sequence of events finally led to Japan's surrender?
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History of Japan
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In the final episode of our series on the atomic bomb, we'll talk a bit about some other theories related to the bomb before closing with some general thoughts about the bomb and what it says about how we approach and write history.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, wwii, hiroshima, nagasaki
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History of Japan
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This week, we're jumping ahead to cover the 1950s through the 1980s; Japan and the United States, former foes, are now allies in the Cold War. The relationship, however, is not as smooth as it seems on the surface.
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History of Japan
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We're turning our attention this week to Japan's first classic of poetry: the Man'yoshu, or the Collection of Ten-Thousand Leaves. We'll trace the origins of the work as well as its cultural impact through the ages, and talk about why it is we should care about a bunch of poems some of which date back to times contemporary with the Roman Empire.
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It's time for a b-b-b-b-bonus, from my other show at criminalrecordspodcast.com. I think you all will enjoy it; if you do, check the show out!
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History of Japan
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This week, we look at the contentious summer of 1960, in which the disputes of postwar Japan boiled over into some of the most intense protests in the country's history. How do these conflicts shape modern Japanese society?
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History of Japan
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This week, we cover the remainder of Oda Nobunaga's rise to power: his wars for control of central Japan in 1570, his cleverness as a ruler, his brutal reign, and his eventual death at the hands of one of his most trusted retainers.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, samurai, history, nobunaga, oda, sengoku
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History of Japan
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This week, we start a short series on the history of one of the most influential fiefdoms in Japanese history (Satsuma) and the family who ruled it (the Shimazu). How did this little chunk of land on the edge of Japan grow to national importance?
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, samurai, history, satsuma, shimazu
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This week: can a martial art be a philosophy of life? Can it rise to the level of a religion?
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, aikido, kempo, budo
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A Short History of Japan Podcast
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Between 1575 and 1582 Oda Nobunaga was sorely tested by the most powerful opponents to his domination; The Ikko Ikki Buddhists, the Takeda Clan and the Uesugi Clan. In the end, however, it might have been an unpaid dinner tab that killed him.
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History of Japan
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This week, the floodgates are open! The system has fallen, and the left is poised to seize power...or not!
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Today, we'll turn our attention to a set of ideas that will ultimately fall flat on their face in Japan (and most other places): Marxism. How did the hard left come to Japan? And before that, what even is Marxism?
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This week, we cover the story of Engelbert Kaempfer, who wrote one of the most thorough and best known accounts of Japan for Western consumption before the Meiji era. How did this random German dude end up in Japan? What did he write about it? What did he think of it? And why do we care?
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, dutch, nagasaki, edo
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History of Japan
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This week: karate comes to mainland Japan (and gets a rebrand in the process), and the Butokukai's attempts to militarize the martial arts backfire when the Americans come to town.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, karate, budo, naginata
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History of Japan
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This week on the podcast, we're exploring the life of a woman whose story would normally be confined to the sidelines: an imperial concubine in the early 1600s by the name of Nakanoin Nakako? Who was this young woman and how did she become a part of the emperor's household? Show notes here.
Topics: Podcast, Japan, history, japaneseJapan, japanese, Kyoto, sengoku
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Today, we wrap our look at immigrants from Japan with a brief discussion of Nikkei communities in the Philippines and China, and with a look at Japan's own attempts to have Nikkei return \"home.\"
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This week, we're talking about popular literature, with a specific focus on one of Japan's most famous pieces of detective fiction -- the Hanshichi Torimonocho. Show notes here.
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesemystery, literature, japan, history, tokyo, edo
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This week, we're going to start our exploration of the Sino-Japanese relationship with a quick recap of the history of China's last imperial dynasty. How did China find itself in such desperate straits by the turn of the twentieth century that they were being surpassed by a chain of islands that had been irrelevant for centuries? Tune in to find out!
Topics: Podcast, history, japan, japanesejapan, history, china
