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Episode 486 - The Nation's Kitchen, Part 1

History of Japan

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Introduction

When I was first learning Japanese and studying Japanese history and undergrad, one of the biggest cities in the country was always explained to me solely in relation to another. In some tellings it's literally the oldest place in Japan you can really call Japanese. See if you believe the ancient histories then Osaka's story goes all-way back to 663 BCE.

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