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Episode 444 - The Crysanthemum Taboo

Episode 444 - The Crysanthemum Taboo

History of Japan · Isaac Meyer

July 1, 202235m 44s

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Show Notes

This week: how did a spate of right wing violence in the early years of the 1960s help to fundamentally reshape public discourse around the emperor (and thus around politics and history more generally) up to the present day? And what does all of this have to do with one of the most bizarre short stories that has ever been published?

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