Episode 35 OMG Part 2
"How did it come to this?" - This must have been the question the Christian missionaries asked themselves as Hideyoshi followed by successiv...
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A Short History of Japan Podcast
A walk through the best bits of Japanese history with a focus on the key people, best stories and the funny little mistakes that created Japan
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20 of 36 episodesEpisode 34: OMG Part 1
To Christian missionaries, Japan was a most attractive prospect. Literate, cultured and rich - the Jesuits arrived in Japan in the 1500s and...
Episode 32: Masterful Inactivity
With the destruction of the Toyotomi at Osaka in 1615, the Tokugawa clan were unrivalled in their domination of Japan. They would establish...
Episode 31: End of the Sengoku Jidai
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 th...
Episode 30: For Whom The Bell Tolls
Tokugawa Ieyasu had won the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and set up organising Japan under his clan's domination. However, safely ensconced...
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Episode 29: My Trip to Japan
I went to Japan with 25 students and 2 other teachers. In this podcast I'll tell you where we went with a particular emphasis on the histori...
Episode 28: Sekigahara
With Hideyoshi's body barely cold, the plotting and scheming began in earnest. This was the complete opposite of what Hideyoshi had hoped an...
Episode 27: You Can't Take It With You
My mother says that the cemetery is full of people who thought they were indispensable - but in Hideyoshi's case, he would have been right....
Episode 26: Hideyoshi Dreams Big
In 1592 and 1598 Hideyoshi pointed the enormous Japanese capacity for warfare at the task of conquering one of the greatest civilizations in...
Episode 25: From War to Peace (Almost)
Hideyoshi, in spite of being a warlord, transitioned Japan from a state of war to a state of peace. Though Japan wasn't finished with the se...
Episode 24: Hideyoshi's Japan
The rise of Hideyoshi from sandal bearer to dictator of Japan was phenomenal. After hundreds of year of civil war, he, without any sense of...
Episode 23: The Three Day Shogun
If murdering Nobunaga was Phase One of a long thought-out and well-considered plan for the take-over of Japan it certainly wasn't obvious in...
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Episode 22: The Empire is Mine
Between 1575 and 1582 Oda Nobunaga was sorely tested by the most powerful opponents to his domination; The Ikko Ikki Buddhists, the Takeda C...
Episode 21: Nobunaga v Buddha
In 1570 Oda Nobunaga faced a dangerous combination of rival daimyo and religious fanaticism. He decided to treat Buddhist rivals to his powe...
Episode 20: The Realm Subjected To Military Power
Oda Nobunaga took Kyoto in the name of the Shogun and the Emperor in 1568. By 1570 the Shogun knew that he served at Nobunaga's pleasure and...
Episode 19: Oda Nobunaga's License to Kill
Oda Nobunaga had the luck, the allies, the staff, the location, the armies and the validation to make a move on Kyoto while the other major...
Episode 18: Sengoku Jidai, The Rise of Oda Nobunaga
In this episode we introduce one of Japan's three Great Unifiers. His rise to power was certainly not easy and could easily have relegated h...
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