Episode 626 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 1
We're starting a new series taking a look at an oft neglected classic of Heian literature: The Eiga Monogatari, or Tale of Flowering Fortune...
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History of Japan
A weekly podcast on Japanese history, covering everything from prehistory to the modern era. Additional information available at the podcast blog, at www.historyofjapan.wordpress.com
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20 of 640 episodesEpisode 625 - An Ocean Between Us, Part 3
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 th...
Episode 625 - An Ocean Between Us, Part 2
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...
Episode 624 - An Ocean Between Us, Part 1
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 a...
Episode 623 - The Great Peace, Part 2
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 w...
Episode 622 - The Great Peace, Part 1
The Taiheiki is arguably one of the most dismissed works of literature in Japanese history, doomed to always exist solely in comparison to t...
Episode 621 - The Manga Revolution, Part 3
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...
Episode 620 - The Manga Revolution, Part 2
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...
Episode 619 - The Manga Revolution, Part 1
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...
Episode 618 - Live by the Sword
This week, we're tackling the most legendary samurai in Japanese history: Miyamoto Musashi. Why is he so famous, what do we actually know ab...
Episode 617 - I am Legend, Part 4
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 k...
Episode 616 - I am Legend, Part 3
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...
Episode 615 - I am Legend, Part 2
This week, the Yoshitsune legend finds its legs with Heike Monogatari--one of the most epic works in Japanese history. Except that while Yos...
Episode 614 - I am Legend, Part 1
Note: I made a mistake recording this episode but did not have time to go back and fix it. It's episode 614! This week, we're starting a thr...
Episode 613 - I am a Cat
This week, we're covering one of the most titanic names in Japanese literature--Natsume Soseki--and the work that propelled him to fame. How...
Episode 612 - The Final Frontier, Part 8
This week: Japanese Manchuria comes crashing down as a combination of poorly planned colonial policies and a worsening war situation see imp...
Episode 611 - The Final Frontier, Part 7
This week: some reflections on the hollow nature of Manchurian "independence", and on what kept the state going if so few of its own residen...
Episode 610 - The Final Frontier, Part 6
This week on the podcast: the Japanese presence in Manchuria was never particularly large, even at its height. So how did Japanese rule in M...
Episode 609 - The Final Frontier, Part 5
In the last episode of 2025: a bomb "mysteriously" goes off just outside Mukden during the evening of September 18, 1931. Less than six mont...
Episode 608 - The Final Frontier, Part 4
As Japan enters the 1920s, national policy becomes increasingly liberalized--but Manchuria remains a holdout of extremists who, if anything,...
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