Episode 104 - The Patriot

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week: did the postwar period destroy the soul of Japanese culture? Mishima Yukio certainly thought so. We'll explore his life, his career, and the unusual manner of his untimely death this week!

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0:27.4	Go to audibletrial.com slash Japan to claim your offer.
0:32.1	This week, I'm going to recommend cycles of American political thought from the Great
0:36.7	Courses series.
0:38.3	The Enlightenment philosophy that gave rise to modern American political ideas is tremendously
0:44.3	important to understanding the modern world. American ideas about society and government
0:49.4	have had a tremendous impact in Japan ever since the major restoration, not least of all since the United States imposed them at gunpoint after the end of the Second World War.
0:59.6	So it behooves us to understand them better in order to better understand Japan's own,
1:04.7	long and sometimes troubled relationship with American democracy.
1:09.0	Go to audiblechild.com slash Japan to claim your copy. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, Episode 104, The Patriot.
1:39.5	When I first started this podcast, too, two years ago, there was a collection of topics in
1:45.7	the back of my head that I knew I would have to hit eventually.
1:49.3	They included some fun ones, Iihara Saikaku, was and is one of my all-time favorite writers,
1:54.6	and the sheer majesty of Tanaka Kakuay's corruption has always really inspired me, and
2:00.5	they've included some challenging ones as well.
2:02.6	I've been dreading how to do the atomic bomb episodes for a long time,
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