Episode 316 - The Entrepreneur

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week, it's time to talk backroom deals and business trickery, because we're chronicling the rise of Mitsubishi and the rags to riches story of its founder Iwasaki Yataro.

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0:41.3	Babylon Berlin happens to be both.
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0:49.0	during the final years of the Weimar Republic in Germany prior to the rise of the Nazi party.
0:54.4	It's a really interesting look
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1:10.2	... Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, Episode 316, The Entrepreneur.
1:30.5	We've talked a lot over the long history of this podcast about famous politicians and
1:35.9	statesmen in the way they've shaped the course of Japanese history. And with good reason,
1:41.4	politicians do, of course, have a lot of power over the course of events.
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