Episode 290 - What Goes Up, Part 1

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, we turn our attention to the 1980s. Japan and the United States find their relationship wracked by increasing tensions over political and economic relations, and turn to the solution of an agreement designed to ease the pressure of Japan's economic growth. The result? Japan's infamous Bubble Era!

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1:28.9	Okay, so we are officially done with Sengoku stuff for at least a while.
1:33.7	I don't know about y'all, but I am so ready for a change of pace.
1:37.5	So when I started thinking about what I wanted to do next,
1:40.6	I decided that I wanted to get about as far from the age of the samurai as I could for
1:45.0	at least a bit, which left me with two options. Go forward toward the modern era or backward
1:51.0	toward the classical era. In keeping with the requests I've gotten lately, we're going to go
1:56.6	with option one. So let's leave the age of castles and katana behind and head somewhere else, to the city
2:03.6	of Detroit, Michigan on June 19, 1982.
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