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Hello and welcome to the history of Japan podcast, episode 286, on the outside, looking in.

This week, returning to a listener request that I've gotten in a couple of different forms, and I finally decided to do it after some thought and a nice conversation with listener and patron Christian.

Thank you again, by the way, and I hope you are still enjoying Sekiro.

For pretty much as long as I've been doing this show, there have been requests for some episodes on the Supernatural in Japan, and there is, for sure, a lot to work with there, but also

not a lot to draw on in terms of academic work.

It's always been something I've wanted to do and that you all have clearly wanted to hear,

but I never really had a sense for how I wanted to approach it.

But I think I've finally started to get a hand on how I sort of want to work through this

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