Episode 313 - The Doctor is In

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're going to zoom in on the kind of life that doesn't usually make the big picture history of Japan. It's time to look at the story of a single medical student during the final years of the Tokugawa era and explore everything from his education to his drinking habit, and to ask ourselves just what we can learn from such a focused examination of the past.

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1:18.6	You know, Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast.
1:22.0	Episode 313, The Doctor Is In.
1:32.3	One of my favorite things about history as a discipline is that it gives us a chance to recover lives that otherwise would be lost to the mists of time. Certainly it doesn't always work that way. Many people, indeed most have ever lived, have left us little to nothing in terms of concrete records with which to reconstruct their lives.
1:43.3	But even when it's done indirectly, the chance to literally revive a person from the murky past
1:48.5	and bring their lives back to the forefront is always fascinating to do.
1:53.1	And that's even more fun when the person in question lived in interesting times,
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