Episode 114 - The King of the Monsters

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week, we cover the rise to global fame of one of Japan's greatest cultural ambassadors: Godzilla. How did a monster designed as a metaphor about the bomb become emblematic of postwar Japan? Find out this week!

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0:43.5	His biography of Saigo Takamori is both well-researched and readable.
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1:01.8	trial.com slash Japan to claim your copy. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast. Episode 114.
1:29.4	The King of the Monsters.
1:36.4	As I was finishing up the last of the atomic bomb episodes, while simultaneously kicking myself,
1:41.7	for promising to do episodes on the Nanjing Massacre in December, because way to not space out the depressing stuff, I came across a few stories I wanted to talk
1:46.5	about, but that didn't really fit in with the tone or the areas I promised to cover.
1:51.2	This is one of those stories, and while it's probably one of the best known things I'll cover
1:56.1	on the show, it's still important enough that I would be remiss not to bring it up.
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