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History of Japan
by Isaac Meyer
Today: #198 in History on our combined chart.
Today: #155 in History, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #26 in History, Japan on our combined chart.
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Ranking history · Japan
Latest daily rankings: Oct 26. New rankings will appear after the next update.
Position on the History, Japan combined chart over the last 14 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.
Episode releases
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Castbox |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26 | #26 | #26 | #25 | #24 |
| Oct 25 | #37 | #38 | #37 | #47 |
| Oct 24 | #62 | #62 | — | #60 |
| Oct 23 | #77 | #75 | — | — |
| Oct 22 | #47 | #50 | #49 | #32 |
| Oct 21 | #74 | #75 | — | #80 |
| Oct 20 | #65 | #65 | — | #67 |
| Oct 19 | #38 | #38 | #37 | #32 |
| Oct 18 | #35 | #35 | #34 | #29 |
| Oct 17 | #27 | #28 | #27 | #58 |
| Oct 16 | #102 | #104 | — | #95 |
| Oct 15 | #55 | #55 | — | #50 |
| Oct 14 | #43 | #43 | #42 | #33 |
| Oct 13 | #27 | #27 | #26 | #19 |
Latest episodes
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Episode 646 - A Fief By Any Other Name, Part 1
October 23, 2026 · 34 minWhat is feudalism? It's a surprisingly hard question to answer, and one that raises an interesting follow up. Here on the podcast I've been describing medieval Japan as a "feudal state" for a long time, but should I even be doing that?…
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Episode 645 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 3
October 16, 2026 · 36 minThis week: the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front publishes its manifesto, and spreads beyond its original four members. But after a few months of terror bombings (and one completely botched attempt to assassinate Hirohito), the group is…
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Episode 644 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 2
October 9, 2026 · 35 minDaidoji Masashi's trajectory from college student to terrorist has a lot to do with the student movement and the New Left in 1960s Tokyo. How did his time at Hōsei University set the idealistic young man on a collision course with the…
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Episode 643 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 1
October 2, 2026 · 34 minOn August 30, 1974, a bomb went off at Mitsubishi corporate HQ in Tokyo's Marunouchi neighborhood. The culprit was a group calling itself the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front - Wolf Cell. This week: how did this radical movement grow out…
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Episode 642 - The Hunters, Part 2
September 18, 2026 · 32 minHow does a matagi hunt actually work, and how has matagi culture evolved over the course of the 20th century? And finally: why is it that so many today seem to think the matagi will be extinct themselves before too long? Show notes here.
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Episode 641 - The Hunters, Part 1
September 11, 2026 · 32 minNot many have heard of the Matagi, the hunters who live in northern Honshu. What do we know of their origins and history, and how do they fit into our knowledge of premodern Japan? Show notes here.
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Episode 640 - The Great Escape, Part 2
September 4, 2026 · 33 minThis week: the Cowra breakout seemed, to those who lived through it, like it came out of nowhere. But nothing does, so what factors led to it? How did the breakout itself play out? And what are its legacies, both in terms of…
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Episode 639 - The Great Escape, Part 1
August 28, 2026 · 34 minIn a wide-ranging episode intended just to be the introduction to the largest mass prisoner breakout of WWII, we first have to tackle...the history of Japan-Australia relations all the way up to 1940 and the role Australia played in…
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Episode 638 - The Catastrophe, Part 6
August 21, 2026 · 34 minAt long last, the fight over how to reconstruct Tokyo is done. But what did rebuilding the imperial capital actually look like? Show notes here.
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Episode 637 - The Catastrophe, Part 5
August 14, 2026 · 37 minAfter Tokyo was burned to the ground, the battle over how to rebuild it began almost immediately. The man leading the charge--one of Japan's foremost bureaucrats--would become so frustrated with the experience that it would crush him…
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Episolde 636 - The Catastrophe, Part 4
August 7, 2026 · 37 minWhy did so many greet the destruction of Tokyo not with consternation, but seeming joy? The answer has to do with one of the most complex phenomenon in the history of modern urbanism, and with the history of Edo's transformation into Tokyo…
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Episode 635 - The Catastrophe, Part 3
July 31, 2026 · 37 minThis week: the Great Kanto Earthquake was also the backdrop for one of the most famous murders of 1920s Japan, one that set the stage for a seismic shift within the nation's political sphere. This week: who was Ito Noe, and how did her…
About the show
This podcast, assembled by a former PhD student in History at the University of Washington, covers the entire span of Japanese history. Each week we'll tackle a new topic, ranging from prehistoric Japan to the modern day.