Episode 314 - Responsibility, Accountability, and the Imperial Throne

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Since Japan just got itself a new emperor, this is a good time to go back and look at an incident from the enthronement of the last emperor -- and at a time where one local politician's comment at a council meeting ignited a national firestorm which ended with him being shot.

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0:31.2	This week, I'm going to recommend Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert Bix.
0:37.4	Look, I'll level with you guys. I'm almost certain that I've recommended this before,
0:42.3	because it's frankly pretty famous.
0:44.3	But the document I used for a long time to track all this stuff has mysteriously disappeared on me,
0:50.3	so I can't be sure.
0:52.3	And even if I was sure, well, this is a real classic.
0:55.7	I don't agree with everything Bix says,
0:58.2	but I think it's a highly readable biography of Hirohito
1:01.3	that does a good job covering a very complex era in Japanese history.
1:06.2	So, even if I've done so once already,
1:08.9	I'm more than happy to recommend it again.
1:11.6	Go to audible trial.com slash Japan to claim your copy. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 314, responsibility, accountability, and the imperial throne.
1:42.2	So you may have heard the news recently that Japan has a new emperor.
1:47.2	Just this year, Akihito, the Heisei Emperor, abdicated the throne and passed it along
1:52.1	to his son, Naruhito.
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