Episode 344 - Blackness in Japan, Part 2

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, we look at Japan's relationship with blackness and black communities in the wake of the Meiji Restoration, and at the beginnings of a movement among black people to make Japan into a champion of non-white peoples.

Note: this episode includes some language that may be considered dated or offensive (though no use of slurs).

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1:01.0	Music Hello and welcome to the history of Japan podcast.
1:19.9	Episode 344, Blackness in Japan, Part 2.
1:25.6	Before we get started, just a quick heads up, things might sound a little strange today
1:30.3	because I'm trying out a new audio recording option, a new piece of software, and I'm still kind of
1:36.3	figuring my way around things.
1:38.3	Hopefully it will result in some nice, cleaner recordings for you all, but also I'm not the most adept with audio editing,
1:45.6	so please do bear with me, and I apologize for any inconveniences.
1:51.0	So, I feel like, to a certain extent, I'm beating a dead horse by emphasizing how important
1:58.2	the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry and his American naval squadron in Edo Harbor is for Japanese history.
2:06.3	Perry's arrival in Edo on July 8, 1853, is one of those epoch-defining moments.
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