In this episode, Dr. David Howell (Harvard University) situates the Meiji Restoration as one moment in Japan's longer nineteenth century of social, cultural, and political transformations.  We consider the "spirit of 1868" that informed many of the early Meiji state's reforms, along with their impacts on people in different areas of Japan, including the Ainu population of Hokkaido. (Transcript here).

The Meiji at 150 Podcast