Episode 298 - The Ghost of Japan Past

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week, we profile one of the great Western interpreters of Japan: Lafcadio Hearn. How did some Anglo-Greek kid end up in Japan by way of New Orleans, and why do we still care about him today?

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0:36.7	about him,
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1:09.0	Thank you. child.com slash Japan to claim your copy. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 298, The Ghost of Japan Past.
1:18.0	Today's topic is the story of a man who lived, by pretty much any measure, a fascinating life.
1:24.0	It's one I've been meaning to get to for a while now, but while I was away in New Orleans,
1:28.9	I saw some things that really spurred me to get on it.
1:32.1	So today we're going to talk about one of the first people to do, well, what I enjoy doing so
1:37.6	much, trying to help people who have no cultural connection to Japan understand it a little
1:43.2	better.
1:44.4	His name was Lafcadio Hearn, and his story starts in the most obvious place for a story
1:50.7	about a great scholar of Japan to start, the outlying islands of Greece.
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