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History of Japan

History of Japan

By: Isaac Meyer
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 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. World
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  • Episode 609 - The Final Frontier, Part 5

    Episode 609 - The Final Frontier, Part 5
    Dec 26 2025

    In the last episode of 2025: a bomb "mysteriously" goes off just outside Mukden during the evening of September 18, 1931. Less than six months later, Manchuria becomes an "independent country." Japan's government loses complete control over the army, all over the issue of its new "Manchurian Lifeline." And suddenly, for some reason, the last emperor of China is back!

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    37 mins
  • Episode 608 - The Final Frontier, Part 4

    Episode 608 - The Final Frontier, Part 4
    Dec 19 2025

    As Japan enters the 1920s, national policy becomes increasingly liberalized--but Manchuria remains a holdout of extremists who, if anything, begin to take a more aggressive position on the "China Problem." How did that happen--and how did that aggressive position, seemingly overnight, become normalized back in Japan proper?

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    38 mins
  • Episode 607 - The Final Frontier, Part 3

    Episode 607 - The Final Frontier, Part 3
    Dec 12 2025

    This week: Japan's military and civilian leaders find themselves at a crossroads in Manchuria in the 1910s, as views begin to split around what the point of Japan's presence there even is. As Russia and China collapse into civil war, the new liberal post-WWI order will see the beginnings of a very different vision of what Japan's purpose on the Asian mainland even is.

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    39 mins
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