History of Japan
Hosted by Isaac Meyer · Isaac Meyer
4.8from 1,367 ratings
- 685
- Episodes
- 117
- Transcribed
- 1,367
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2010
- First episode
About History of Japan
This podcast, assembled by a former PhD student in History at the University of Washington, covers the entire span of Japanese history. Each week we'll tackle a new topic, ranging from prehistoric Japan to the modern day.
- Publisher
- Isaac Meyer
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jan 2010
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
117 of 685 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 643 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 1
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Episode 642 - The Hunters, Part 2
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Episode 641 - The Hunters, Part 1
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Episode 643 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 1
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Is this a very simplistic summary of Marx? Oh yeah, but for our purposes, workable enough. Because by the late 1960s, several left-wing groups in Japan, including the forerunners of the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, had broken away from the Marxists who they'd begun to derisively call the Old Left. They, meanwhile, were the New Left, and their job was to address the failure of traditional Old Left Marxism to create change. The New Left is, as the name implies, a pretty recent invention. While the Marxist tradition dates, of course, to Marx himself and the 1948 publication of the Communist Manifesto, New Leftism is an invention of about a century later, the 50s and especially the 60s. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 689 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 678 ratings
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