Ep. 60: Japanese Texas
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In the early 20th century Japan sought to extend its relations around the world. Texas made imminent sense. A Japanese professor saw the Alamo as a perfect companion to one of ancient Japan’s most famous battles. The Emperor saw Texas as a perfect place to relocate some of his brightest farmers. Learn about the early connections between Japan and Texas in this latest episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I'm your host Ken Wies. I want to thank you for |
| 0:13.9 | tuning in today for a little bit of Texas history. We've gotten our first coal |
| 0:18.5 | front of the year this year. This episode is being released in October 2018. |
| 0:24.0 | First Cold Front of the Year, at least in Houston, is almost a holiday. |
| 0:28.0 | You hear a lot of talk about summer wardrobes and winter wardrobes. |
| 0:32.0 | For me, that means I put up the straw hat and get the felt hat out. |
| 0:35.8 | But so we're glad to have that cool weather. We also celebrate this holiday by making a big pot of |
| 0:42.2 | chili. No beans, of course, not even a question as |
| 0:45.7 | listeners of this podcast know and for our Cajun brothers and sisters of which |
| 0:50.0 | there are a lot in Houston it's a pot of gumbo. |
| 0:52.9 | So either one is fine with me, both of those, or even better. |
| 0:57.2 | I want to tell you today, as you listen to this, |
| 0:59.7 | you're joining over 250,000 downloaders around the world. |
| 1:04.7 | This podcast has been heard in 97 different countries, which blows my mind. |
| 1:10.5 | But what's interesting about that to me is the country in which this podcast has been downloaded |
| 1:16.3 | the second most frequently. |
| 1:18.3 | The first, of course, is the United States. |
| 1:21.0 | But you can have a tough time guessing the country that has downloaded this |
| 1:24.0 | podcast several thousand times and ranks number two on the list of 97 countries. |
| 1:29.8 | That country is Japan. So today's episode, I thought I would talk about a couple of things that connect Japan and Texas, |
| 1:39.0 | because there are some interesting connections. |
| 1:42.0 | There are two main things I want to mention today. |
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