In this episode, Dr. Lisa Yoshikawa chronicles how professional historians in the Meiji and Taisho Periods legitimized imperialism as they attempted to elevate the discipline of history within Japanese academia. We discuss the mobilization of history and myth to justify colonialism, the development of academic history in the Meiji period, and scholars' complicity with interwar illiberalism before considering the politics of historical memory along with legacies for Japanese historians and historiographies in the postwar and today. (Transcript here).
Episode 100 - Dr. Takahiro Yamamoto (Heidelberg)
Episode 99 - PREVIEW: On the Record with Dr. Noell Wilson
Episode 98 - Dr. Lionel Babicz (Sydney)
Episode 97 - Dr. Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins (Edinburgh)
Episode 96 - Dr. Jolyon Thomas (Penn)
Episode 95 - Dr. Jennifer Prough (Valparaiso)
Episode 94 - Dr. David Wittner (Utica)
Episode 93 - Dr. Rebecca Copeland (Washington Univ.)
Episode 92 - Dr. Jun Isomae (Nichibunken)
Episode 91 - Dr. Susan Burns (Chicago)
Episode 90 - Dr. Gavin Campbell (Dōshisha)
Episode 89 - Janice Nimura
Episode 88 - Dr. Colin Jaundrill (Providence)
Episode 87 - Dr. Deborah Shamoon (NUS)
Episode 86 - Dr. Mark Ravina (Emory)
Episode 85 - Dr. Shi Lin Loh (NUS)
Episode 84 - Dr. David Ambaras (NC State)
Episode 83 - Dr. Donna Brunero (NUS)
Episode 82 - Dr. Jordan Sand (Georgetown)
Episode 81 - Dr. Carol Gluck (Columbia)
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