Jun 28, 2024
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the descent towards the Second World War. Why did the leadership of imperial Japan start a war many of them were aware they were unlikely to win? And how did the failures of the Meiji system enable the descent into militarism and defeat?
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Jun 21, 2024
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: during the 1920s, Japan's political system became more democratic and representative--an "imperial democracy" that evolved out of the Meiji system. How did this happen, and why did those democratic gains prove to be so unstable in the long term?
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Jun 14, 2024
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: Japan joins the ranks of the great powers by building its own colonial empire. How did Japan come to be a great colonial power, what made its empire different from the others of the age, and more importantly: what made it the same?
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Jun 4, 2024
Hello all,
I'm back from Japan, but the jetlag is hitting me harder than expected and I'm a bit behind on some other year-end stuff for the school year. As a result, there will be no new HoJ episode this week; tune in next week for a resumption of our regularly scheduled programming.