Episode 291 - What Goes Up, Part 2

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're going to talk about life in the bubble era by looking at three snapshots of that experience: a movie, a book, and a poem.

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1:21.1	Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 291, What Goes Up, Part 2.
1:29.3	Every year, I teach my students a lesson on the bubble era in Japan. It covers all the material we talked about last week, in a bit less depth, to be sure, but same basic outline, but the bulk of the
1:34.4	day is about the impact of the bubble on everyday life in Japan. But of course, that's a very
1:41.2	hard thing to quantify. What can we really say about everyday life?
1:45.6	What even is everyday life?
1:47.5	How can we grasp an idea that's so vague?
1:50.6	And this gets at an important difficulty in terms of the work of doing history.
1:56.3	Political history, for sure, has its complexities.
2:00.0	Following the path of alliance and counter alliance and the shaping of
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