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    Education

    History of Japan

    This podcast, assembled by a former PhD student in History at the University of Washington, covers the entire span of Japanese history. Each week we’ll tackle a new topic, ranging from prehistoric Japan to the modern day.

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    Episode 459 - The Empty Throne, Part 2 Oct 28, 2022
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    This week: Emperor Komei attempts to protect tradition in a nation beset by crisis. However, his efforts will be brought short by his untimely death, and the reigns of power passed to his untested boy successor: Meiji.

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    Episode 458 - The Empty Throne, Part 1 Oct 21, 2022
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    This week: the beginning of a multipart biography of two of the best documented figures we know very little about: Emperor Komei, and his son and heir Meiji, whose name would end up defining one of the most important eras in Japanese history.

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    Episode 457 - The Purple Robe Incident Oct 14, 2022
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    This week: political infighting about purple robes and what it can tell us about Buddhism, political power, and the relationship of religion and the state. Plus, a brief biography of Takuan, a man who is famous for far more than the pickled radishes named after him!

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    No new episode this week Oct 03, 2022
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    Hello all: due to my very first COVID-19 infection, there won't be a new episode this week. We'll be back as normal next week.

    Episode 456 - Stranger in the Shogun's City Sep 30, 2022
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    This week: the story of Tsuneno, a commoner whose social status was very different from that of Lady Nijo and Ogimachi Machiko, but whose struggle to define herself and decide her own destiny feels very familiar.

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    Episode 455 - In the Shelter of the Pine Sep 23, 2022
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    This week, the tale of Ogimachi Machiko--the aristocrat whose literary descriptions of her life in a samurai family became one of the most popular works of women's literature during Japan's Edo period.

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    Episode 454 - That All my Dreams Might Not Prove Empty Sep 16, 2022
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    This week: in 1940, a manuscript lost for over 600 years is recovered from the archives of the Imperial family. Within it lies the story of a fascinating woman, and her journey from imperial concubine to Buddhist nun--a journey that covers everything from high politics to the lives of common folk.

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    Episode 453 - The Waves are High but the Day is Clear, Part 2 Sep 09, 2022
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    This week: how has the JMSDF gone from an afterthought to a central part of Japan's security planning?

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    Episode 452 - The Waves are High but the Day is Clear, Part 1 Sep 02, 2022
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    This week: the start of a two part series on the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces. Today: how did Japan's current navy grow out of its old one, and what does that say about the force's relationship with Japan's prewar past?

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    Episode 451 - Those Swept Away Aug 26, 2022
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    This week, the biography of one of the most unusual figures of Bakumatsu Japan: the peasant Matsuo Taseko, whose career as a member of the imperial loyalist movement defied conventions of gender and defies neat categorization today.

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