Episode 134 - The Fall of the Samurai, Part 17

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, we take a look at the new balance of power now that the Tokugawa are gone. Who's calling the shots? What do they want? And most importantly of all, now that the war is over, will we all be resolving our differences with calm discussion like a bunch of grownups?

Spoilers: no.

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0:34.0	This week I'm going to recommend the great debate, advocates and opponents of the American Constitution
0:40.0	from the Great Courses series.
0:43.0	The U.S. Constitution is, of course, important in its own right as one of the iconic founding
0:48.9	documents of the world's only remaining superpower.
0:52.8	However, it's also really important for Japanese history specifically.
0:57.0	The leaders of Meiji Japan looked to it as one possible model,
1:00.9	and of course the current Japanese constitution was written in part with one eye on its
1:05.8	American counterpart.
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1:31.6	Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast.
1:36.7	Episode 134, The Fall of the Samurai, Part 17.
1:42.1	So now the war is over, and we have one big question left to answer.
1:43.7	What comes next?
1:49.4	As I alluded to last week, this is actually a fairly complicated question to answer,
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