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Hello and welcome to the history of Japan Podcast, episode 284, Rags to Riches, Part 3.

So first things first, you probably noticed that there have been a lot of Sengoku-themed episodes on the podcast lately.

There is a reason for that.

So, before we get started, I'm very excited to announce that I've just finished recording my part of a documentary for Netflix on that

very subject. That's going to be going live sometime towards the end of this year, hopefully,

though of course film production is always tricky business. You can never be sure with these kind of things.

Details will follow when we get closer to release, I promise.

For now, I can just say that I think it's going to be very cool.

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