The Meiji at 150 Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Student Podcast Episode 19 - Political Pop Music
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student catalogues ...
Episode 25 - Dr. Amy Stanley (Northwestern)
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Amy Stanley (Northwestern University) outlines the impact of the Meiji Restoration on the practice of prostitution in Japan along...
Student Podcast Episode 18 - J-Pop
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student charts the ...
Student Podcast Episode 17 - Juken (School Entrance Exams)
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student sits for an a...
Episode 24 - Prof. Peter Kornicki (Cambridge)
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Prof. Peter Kornicki challenges the narrative of the Meiji period as revolutionary, instead underlining continuities in literary tast...
Student Podcast Episode 16 - Otaku
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student introduces Ot...
Student Podcast Episode 15 - 1960s Counterculture
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student records the...
Episode 23 - Dr. Marnie Anderson (Smith)
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Marnie Anderson (Smith) canvasses the political agency of women's groups during the Meiji period, changes in women's place in pub...
Student Podcast Episode 14 - Ukiyo-e (Pictures of the Floating World)
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, two students paint a ...
Student Podcast Episode 13 - Sushi
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student presents th...
Episode 22 - Dr. Mark Metzler (Washington)
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Metzler (Washington) views the Meiji Restoration from the perspective of global economic history. We discuss the impacts of glo...
Student Podcast Episode 12 - J Hora- (J-Horror)
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student directs our a...
Student Podcast Episode 11 - Da-ku Souru (Dark Souls)
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student walks throu...
Episode 21 - Dr. Barbara Molony (Santa Clara), Dr. Sabine Frühstück (UCSB), Dr. Hillary Maxson (Oregon)
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Barbara Molony (Santa Clara), Dr. Sabine Frühstück (UCSB), and Dr. Hillary Maxson (Oregon) trace how gender norms and the posit...
Student Podcast Episode 10 - Keigo
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student introduces ...
Student Podcast Episode 9 - Ō-to Re-su (Auto Race)
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student steers our ...
Episode 20 - Dr. Seth Jacobowitz (Yale University)
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr Jacobowitz (Yale) chronicles internal sources for Meiji Period developments in Japanese literary practices and techniques, placing...
Workshop - Gendering War & Peace in Modern Japan
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this workshop, Dr. Barbara Molony (Santa Clara), Dr. Sabine Frühstück (UCSB), Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh (UBC), and Dr. Hillary Maxson (Oregon) present...
Lecture Series - Sherri Kajiwara (Nikkei National Museum)
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, Sherri Kajiwara (Nikkei National Museum) traces the history of Japanese immigration to Canada and introduces several exhibits concern...
Episode 19 - Sherri Kajiwara (Nikkei National Museum)
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sherri Kajiwara uncovers the roots of Japanese immigration to Canada and the deracination of the Japanese-Canadian population from Br...
Student Podcast Episode 8 - Yoshoku (Japanese-style Western Food)
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student samples Yos...
Student Podcast Episode 7 - Seichi Junrei (Anime "Holy Site" Pilgrimages)
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student guides us o...
Episode 18 - Dr. Radu Leca (Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives)
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Leca (Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives) charts conceptions of spatiality in the Tokugawa period and maps continuities in und...
Student Podcast Episode 6 - Japanese Whisky
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student gives us a ...
Student Podcast Episode 5 - Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies)
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student reviews the...
Episode 17 - Dr. Kate McDonald (UCSB)
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Kate McDonald (UCSB) repositions tourism starting in the late-Meiji period as a site for establishing claims to empire in Taiwan,...
Student Podcast Episode 4 - Anime in the West
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student shares his ...
Student Podcast Episode 3 - Americana in Japan
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student talks about...
Episode 16 - Dr. William Brecher (WSU)
16 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Brecher (Washington State University) challenges narratives of Meiji modernization from the “top-down” by exploring tourist s...
Lecture Series - Shunya Yoshimi (University of Tokyo)
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this Meiji at 150 Project Keynote Lecture, Dr. Shunya Yoshimi (University of Tokyo, Harvard University) proposes that a longue durée approach to h...
Lecture Series - Marcia Yonemoto (Colorado)
14 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, Dr. Marcia Yonemoto (University of Colorado-Boulder) details practices of male heir adoption during the Tokugawa period, and charts c...
Student Podcast Episode 2 - Yakyū (Baseball)
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, two students discuss ...
Student Podcast Episode 1 - Karōshi (Working to Death)
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture that they research in class. In this episode, two students dis...
Episode 15 - Dr. Marcia Yonemoto (Colorado)
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Marcia Yonemoto (Colorado) stresses the continuities between the early modern and Meiji Periods, resituating the Meiji Restoratio...
Episode 14 - Dr. David Anderson (UBC)
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. David Anderson (UBC) appraises historical memory in Japan and the reactions of visitors to Japanese history museums, particularly...
Episode 13 - Dr. Millie Creighton (UBC)
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Millie Creighton (UBC) revisits the Meiji Period through the lens of tourism, exploring the way the Restoration is repackaged and...
Episode 12 - Dr. Naoko Kato (UBC)
30 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode, Dr. Naoko Kato (UBC) catalogues the impact of the Meiji Period on Sino-Japanese relations through the person of Uchiyama Kanzo and th...
Episode 11 - Dr. Eiji Okawa (Victoria)
22 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Eiji Okawa (University of Victoria) documents how the Meiji Restoration impacted the epistemology of history in Japan and Japanes...
Episode 10 - Dr. Gideon Fujiwara (Lethbridge)
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Gideon Fujiwara (Lethbridge) positions the Meiji Restoration in the comparative context of a global "Age of Revolution." We dis...
Lecture Series - Gideon Fujiwara (University of Lethbridge)
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, Dr. Gideon Fujiwara (Lethbridge) discusses the ritualization of the "Utakai Hajime" imperial poetry reading-ceremony in the early Mei...
Episode 9 - Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh (UBC)
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh (UBC) sheds light on the story of Nogi Shizuko and her gruesome suicide alongside husband Nogi Maresuke on the d...
Episode 8 - Dr. David Howell (Harvard)
02 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. David Howell (Harvard University) situates the Meiji Restoration as one moment in Japan's longer nineteenth century of social, cu...
Lecture Series - David Howell (Harvard)
29 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this presentation, Dr. David Howell (Harvard University) argues that the night-soil economy of Edo offers a novel way to situate late Tokugawa and ...
Episode 7 - Dr. Ignacio Adriasola (UBC)
29 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Ignacio Adriasola (UBC) paints a picture of how “modern Japanese art” was first defined during the Meiji Period. We discuss...
Episode 6 - Dr. Christina Yi (UBC)
17 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Yi reads the Meiji Period from the perspective of literary studies and discusses the impacts of the Meiji Restoration on writers ...
Episode 5 - Dr. Peter Nosco (UBC)
10 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Nosco dispels several misconceptions about individuality in Japan prior to the Meiji Restoration. We then contrast the protest ...
Episode 4 - Dr. Julian Dierkes (UBC)
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Dierkes analyzes how the Meiji Restoration is presented in history textbooks in Japan. We compare the historiography of the Res...
Episode 3 - Dr. Kenneth J. Ruoff (PSU)
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Ruoff explains the impact of the Meiji Restoration in global history and the role of the emperor system in Japanese modernization...
Episode 2 - Dr. Christopher Craig (Tōhoku)
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Craig offers a glimpse of the Meiji Restoration as it was viewed from peripheral regions, in this case rural Miyagi prefecture. ...
Episode 1 - Dr. Thomas Conlan (Princeton)
18 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Conlan gives us a view of the Meiji Restoration from the perspective of late-medieval Japan. We discuss how viewing the Restora...