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Episode 458 - The Empty Throne, Part 1

Oct 21, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
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2
What Can We Learn From Japan's Two Most Famous Emperors?
02:41 • 2min
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3
The Death of the Future Emperor Kolme
04:52 • 3min
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4
The Importance of Traditional Chinese Medicine
07:27 • 4min
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5
Emperor Komei's Childhood
11:19 • 2min
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6
Emperor Komei's Life
13:09 • 3min
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7
Japan's Child Emperors
16:10 • 2min
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8
Kome - The Birth of a Child in Kyushu
18:01 • 2min
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9
Kome's Response to the Intrusion of the West
20:26 • 3min
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10
Kome's Sense of Politics
23:06 • 3min
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11
Kyoto's Future Meiji - A Brief History
26:12 • 4min
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12
The History of the US-Japan Treaty
30:15 • 3min
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13
The Harris Treaty and Kome's Assassination
32:54 • 2min
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14
Kome's Courtiers Leaped the Harris Treaty to the Daimyo Warlords Around Japan
34:54 • 3min
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15
Woodhouse Nissan - Part One
37:28 • 2min
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This week: the beginning of a multipart biography of two of the best documented figures we know very little about: Emperor Komei, and his son and heir Meiji, whose name would end up defining one of the most important eras in Japanese history.

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