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, Mori Arinori was assassinated, and the Nihon newspaper published its first issue. We discuss the significance of the date and its connection to "National Foundation Day" today, the rise of conservatism from the middle of the Meiji period, popular reactions to these events at the time, and what their concurrence suggests about Japanese modernization. (Transcript here).
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Episode 118 - Dr. Ryosuke Maeda (Hokkaidō)
Episode 117 - Dr. Paul Kreitman (Columbia)
Episode 116 - Dr. Rachael Hutchinson (Delaware)
Episode 115 - Dr. Ayelet Zohar (Tel Aviv)
Episode 114 - Dr. Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci (Stanford)
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Episode 111 - Dr. Oleg Benesch (York)
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Episode 109 - Dr. Paul Barclay (Lafayette)
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Episode 107 - Dr. Ian Miller (Harvard)
Episode 106 - Dr. Patricia Sippel (Tōyō Eiwa)
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Episode 103 - Dr. Catherine Phipps (Memphis)
Episode 102 - Dr. Dan Orbach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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