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).
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Episode 59 - Dr. Garrett Washginton (UMass-Amherst)
Episode 58 - Dr. Andrew Gordon (Harvard)
Episode 57 - Dr. Timothy Brook (UBC)
Episode 56 - Dr. Indra Levy (Stanford)
Episode 55 - Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht (Seton Hall)
Episode 54 - Dr. Andrew Bernstein (Lewis & Clark)
Episode 53 - Dr. Maren Ehlers (North Carolina-Charlotte)
Episode 52 - Dr. Frederick Dickinson (Penn)
Episode 51 - Dr. Alice Tseng (Boston)
Episode 50 - Dr. Sidney Lu (Michigan State)
Episode 49 - Dr. Laura Nenzi (Tennessee)
Episode 48 - Dr. Eric Han (William & Mary)
Episode 47 - Dr. Jakobina Arch (Whitman)
Episode 46 - Dr. Nick Kapur (Rutgers-Camden)
Episode 45 - Dr. Sarah Thal (Wisconsin)
Episode 44 - Dr. Takashi Fujitani (Toronto)
Episode 43 - Prof. Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ANU)
Episode 42 - Dr. Timothy David Amos (NUS)
Episode 41 - Dr. Anne Walthall (Irvine)
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