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Episode 120 - Dr. Tristan Grunow (Yale)
In this concluding episode of the Meiji at 150 Podcast series, Dr. Grunow joins Dr. Hitomi Yoshio (Waseda) to revisit the background and production of the series, to…
Episode 119 - Dr. Xiaowei Zheng (UCSB), Dr. Robert Tierney (Illinois)
In this episode, Drs. Zheng and Tierney recount the political discourse of China and Japan at the turn of the 20th century, focusing on the influential translations and…
Episode 118 - Dr. Ryosuke Maeda (Hokkaidō)
In this episode, Dr. Maeda retraces the process of political centralization during the Meiji period, culminating in the establishment of the Imperial Diet in 1890. We discuss the…
Episode 117 - Dr. Paul Kreitman (Columbia)
In this episode, Dr. Krietman uncovers the history of human waste in Tokyo, from early modern nightsoil collection to postwar sewage systems. We discuss the Edo nightsoil economy,…
Episode 116 - Dr. Rachael Hutchinson (Delaware)
In this episode, Dr. Hutchinson traces the origins of many themes in contemporary Japanese video games to the Meiji Period. We discuss continuity in themes of Japanese identity…
Episode 115 - Dr. Ayelet Zohar (Tel Aviv)
In this episode, Dr. Zohar recounts the history of photography in modern Japan, detailing the contributions of Japanese and foreign photographers. We discuss the introduction of photography, the…
Episode 114 - Dr. Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci (Stanford)
In this episode, Dr. Takeuchi-Demirci resituates Japan's place in the transnational history of prewar birth control movements through the life and activism of Ishimoto Shizue, known as the…
Episode 113 - PREVIEW: The Hokkaidō 150 Podcast - Dr. ann-elise lewallen (UCSB)
This episode previews a new podcast series called Hokkaidō 150, produced in conjunction with the "Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond" workshop hosted…
Episode 112 - Dr. Hitomi Yoshio (Waseda)
In this episode, Dr. Yoshio reassesses the category of the "woman writer" (joryū sakka) during the Taishō period, tracing the emergence of an interwar transnational women's literature. We…
Episode 111 - Dr. Oleg Benesch (York)
In this episode, Dr. Benesch surveys what happens to Japan's medieval castles following the Meiji Restoration, highlighting how they stand for both continuity and change in modern Japan.…
Episode 110 - Dr. Tatiana Linkhoeva (NYU)
In this episode, Dr. Linkhoeva reinserts Russia into the Meiji Period and modern Japanese history more broadly, calling into question narratives of constant tension and conflict between Russia…
Episode 109 - Dr. Paul Barclay (Lafayette)
In this episode, Dr. Barclay reorients modern Japanese history to the perspective of the periphery, focusing on Japan's first colony of Taiwan. We discuss Indigenous Taiwanese resistance to…
Episode 108 - Dr. Susanna Fessler (Albany)
In this episode, Dr. Fessler chronicles the travel writings of Japanese who went overseas to North America and Europe during the Meiji period, noting how writers revived traditional…
Episode 107 - Dr. Ian Miller (Harvard)
In this episode, Dr. Miller maps the contours of environmental history in Japan and charts how attention to the human interrelationship with the world around us reshapes our…
Episode 106 - Dr. Patricia Sippel (Tōyō Eiwa)
In this episode, Dr. Sippel surveys the field of environmental studies in Japan before sketching the environmental history of the Tokugawa period. We discuss Tokugawa flood control projects…
Episode 105 - Dr. Miriam Wattles (UCSB)
In this episode, Dr. Wattles sketches the political potential of artists and artistic production, from early manga artists in the Tokugawa period to activist artists today. We discuss…
Episode 104 - Dr. M. William Steele (ICU)
In this episode, Dr. Steele questions narratives of the Meiji success story by reviewing modern Japanese history from the bottom-up. We discuss how common people experienced and reacted…
Episode 103 - Dr. Catherine Phipps (Memphis)
In this episode, Dr. Phipps revisualizes the Meiji era through a global lens, complicating narratives of Meiji Japan "following" or "catching up" to the West and reinserting Japanese…
Episode 102 - Dr. Dan Orbach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
In this episode, Dr. Orbach revisits prewar Japanese military disobedience starting on the eve of the Meiji Restoration. We discuss the shishi of the Bakumatsu years, the Taiwan…
Episode 101 - Dr. Kirsten Ziomek (Adelphi)
In this episode, Dr. Kirsten Ziomek highlights the diversity of the prewar Japanese empire by surveying native reactions to Japanese colonialism in four locations: Hokkaidō, Taiwan, Micronesia, and…
Episode 100 - Dr. Takahiro Yamamoto (Heidelberg)
In this episode, Dr. Yamamoto reviews Japan's diplomatic interactions with Russia in the northern territories of the Kuril Islands and Karafuto in the years around the Meiji Restoration. …
Episode 99 - PREVIEW: On the Record with Dr. Noell Wilson
This episode previews a new podcast series, Japan on the Record, a shorter format current events-themed series. In episode 1, Dr. Noell Wilson (University of Mississippi) details the…
Episode 98 - Dr. Lionel Babicz (Sydney)
In this episode, Dr. Babicz makes a compelling case for dating the start of "Modern Japan" to February 11, 1889, the date when the Meiji Constitution was promulgated,…
Episode 97 - Dr. Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins (Edinburgh)
In this episode, Dr. Sasamoto-Collins notes tension in Japanese society following the Meiji Restoration between authoritarian state power and political dissenters. We discuss the absolutism of the Meiji…
Episode 96 - Dr. Jolyon Thomas (Penn)
In this episode, Dr. Thomas revisits the history of religion during the Meiji Period, outlining the impacts of the Restoration on Buddhism in Japan. We discuss the anxiety…
Episode 95 - Dr. Jennifer Prough (Valparaiso)
In this episode, Dr. Prough guides a tour of historical sites in Kyoto associated with Sakamoto Ryōma, stopping along the way to discuss Ryōma's role in the Restoration,…
Episode 94 - Dr. David Wittner (Utica)
In this episode, Dr. Wittner revisits narratives of the technological and industrial transformation of Japan following the Meiji Restoration. We discuss the Meiji government's emphasis on technology, the…
Episode 93 - Dr. Rebecca Copeland (Washington Univ.)
In this episode, Dr. Copeland documents several cases of "unruly women" who disrupt Japanese social norms, from mythical goddess Izanami to popular activists and female writers in the…
Episode 92 - Dr. Jun Isomae (Nichibunken)
In this episode, Dr. Isomae charts the changing importance and role of religion in Japanese society following the Meiji Restoration, tracing the emergence of public and private spheres…
Episode 91 - Dr. Susan Burns (Chicago)
In this episode, Dr. Susan Burns positions the history of leprosy in Japan amidst changing conceptions of disease and medical practice in the Tokugawa and Meiji periods. We…
Episode 90 - Dr. Gavin Campbell (Dōshisha)
In this episode, Dr. Campbell reviews the Meiji Restoration from the perspective of American cultural history, situating Japan within American interests in the Pacific. We question narratives of…
Episode 89 - Janice Nimura
In this episode, Janice Nimura recounts the remarkable story of the women of the Iwakura Mission, three young girls sent to America in 1872 for a decade to…
Episode 88 - Dr. Colin Jaundrill (Providence)
In this episode, Dr. Jaundrill complicates the easy association between Bushidō, samurai, and Japan in the contemporary popular imagination. We discuss military reforms dating to the 1850s and…
Episode 87 - Dr. Deborah Shamoon (NUS)
In this episode, Dr. Deborah Shamoon redraws depictions of the shōjo, or adolescent women, in Japanese cultural production in the Meiji and Taishō period, drawing connections between literature…
Episode 86 - Dr. Mark Ravina (Emory)
In this episode, Dr. Ravina reconsiders received narratives of the Meiji Restoration, challenging ideas of the Restoration as a sharp break and reviving the importance of antiquity to…
Episode 85 - Dr. Shi Lin Loh (NUS)
In this episode, Dr. Loh re-examines the history of science in modern Japan and charts Japan's singular experiences of radiation, from the development of Japanese radiology during the Meiji…
Episode 84 - Dr. David Ambaras (NC State)
In this episode, Dr. Ambaras retraces the intimate and illicit networks of regional mobility in East Asia to rethink nation-centric narratives of modern Japanese and Chinese history. We…
Episode 83 - Dr. Donna Brunero (NUS)
In this episode, Dr. Brunero places treaty ports in Japan leading up to and after the Meiji Restoration into an East Asian regional perspective, comparing life in treaty…
Episode 82 - Dr. Jordan Sand (Georgetown)
In this episode, Dr. Sand maps the urban change of Tokyo following the Meiji Restoration, highlighting material and spatial changes along with continuities and discontinuities in Tokyo planning…
Episode 81 - Dr. Carol Gluck (Columbia)
In this episode, Dr. Carol Gluck reconsiders recent scholarly treatments of the Meiji Restoration by prominent historians in Japan, challenging narratives of a "simple Meiji". We question whether…
Episode 80 - Dr. Ellen Nakamura (Auckland)
In this episode, Dr. Nakamura diagnoses the development of medical practice in Meiji Japan, starting with battlefield medicine during the Bōshin War. We discuss the violence of the…
Episode 79 - Dr. Steven Ericson (Dartmouth)
In this episode, Dr. Ericson rethinks several common understandings of Meiji industrialization and economic modernization, reassessing ideas of fiscal retrenchment during the Matsukata Deflation, challenging assumptions of Tokugawa…
Episode 78 - Dr. Taka Oshikiri (UWI-Mona)
In this episode, Dr. Oshikiri describes changes to the cultural significance of tea ceremony from the Tokugawa Period into the Meiji Period. We discuss the practice of tea…
Episode 77 - Dr. James Huffman (Wittenberg)
In this episode, Dr. Huffman chronicles the daily lives of the down and out poor residents in the slums of Tokyo and Osaka during the late Meiji Period. …
Episode 76 - Dr. Sayaka Chatani (NUS)
In this episode, Dr. Chatani raises the importance of rural Seinendan youth mobilization groups in rallying local support for the Japanese military across the Japanese empire, from Miyagi…
Episode 75 - Dr. Jonathan Reynolds (Columbia)
In this episode, Dr. Reynolds reinforces the Meiji foundations of modern Japanese national architectural as mix of Western and traditional forms. We discuss the Meiji origins of institutions…
Episode 74 - Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu (UBC)
In this episode, Dr. Yoshimizu outlines and deconstructs discourses of proper women's behavior amongst the Japanese-Canadian community in prewar British Columbia through representations of Japanese sex workers, waitresses,…
Episode 73 - Dr. Simon Partner (Duke)
In this episode, Dr. Partner retraces the footsteps of Japanese merchant Shinohara Chūemon in treaty-port Yokohama in the 1850-1860s, emphasizing the individual efforts from the bottom-up that made…
Episode 72 - Dr. Ayako Yoshimura (Chicago)
In this episode, Dr. Yoshimura weaves kimono into the study of Japanese material culture and folklore from the Meiji Period, noting how kimono fashion and cultural practices changed…
Episode 71 - Dr. Michael Dylan Foster (UC Davis)
In this episode, Dr. Foster guides us into the realm of yōkai, or supernatural spirits and monsters, as an introduction to the study of Japanese folklore. We discuss…