Episode 156 - Best of Frenemies, Part 2

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week, Korea encounters the West. We'll introduce the early Western forays into Korea, explain how Japan came to sign the first unequal treaty with its neighbor, and look into the factionalization of the Korean royal court.

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0:32.7	This week I'm going to recommend the Invitation Only Zone by Robert S. Boynton. This is the story of something
0:40.0	you can bet we'll be spending time on in the next two episodes, North Korea's abduction project,
0:46.2	which involved the capture of dozens of Japanese nationals over the course of the late 1970s and
0:52.6	early 1980s.
0:58.4	Those Japanese nationals were then used to train North Korean spies in how to blend in to modern Japan.
1:02.1	It's a fascinating story and one that continues to poison the waters
1:06.2	between Japan and North Korea.
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1:13.6	Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 156, Best of Frenemies, part two.
1:39.6	The Age of Imperialism, when it came to Korea, did as much to upset the apple cart as it did in Japan.
1:47.7	Now, that statement might surprise you. After all, there was no great uprising in Korea,
1:53.1	no civil war which overturned the established order as a result in part of the threat from the West.
2:00.5	The factors that promoted the Bochian War and the subsequent Meiji Restoration as a result, in part of the threat from the West.
2:01.3	The factors that promoted the Boshin War and the subsequent Meiji Restoration in Japan
2:06.2	were not present in Korea.
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