Episode 527 - The Beginning of the End
History of Japan
English - April 12, 2024 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 597 ratingsHistory japan history japanese Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: crises about during the late Edo period. A crisis of samurai identity! Questions around vengeance, honor, and duty! And of course, the most confounding subject of them all: macroeconomics. But hey, I'm sure we can figure this all out as long as no pesky Americans show up to ruin things, right?
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