Sleepy Japan History
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Sleepy Japan History is a calm, long-form English-language podcast that walks listeners through Japanese history one figure, event, or era at a time. Each episode lasts 45 to 55 minutes and is designed for slow listening — for the hour before sleep, for a long evening walk, or for any moment when you want to drift through the past without urgency. Episodes cover the people who shaped Japan: shoguns and emperors, monks and merchants, artists and inventors, as well as the events and turning points that defined each era — from the Heian court to the founding of Kamakura, from the Edo townscape to the...
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Recent episodes
- Inō Tadataka: The Chain, the Stars, and the Map That Was Finished After He Died
- The Silk Mill Girls of Meiji: Tomioka, the Daughters Who Were Sent, and What Became of a Model Factory
- The Sankin-Kotai Road: Daimyo Processions and the Inns, Porters and Post Towns of Edo Japan
- The Fumie: A Small Brass Plate, a Winter Morning in Nagasaki, and the Test of Faith
- Sugawara no Michizane: The Scholar Exiled to Dazaifu on a Winter Night
- The Hikyaku: Edo's Runners Who Carried News Through the Night
- The Goseibai Shikimoku: The Code of Laws Written in a Kamakura Study
- The Great Kanto Earthquake: Seventy-Two Hours in the Ruins of a City, September 1923
- The Kitamaebune: Merchant Ships That Sailed Through the Fog of the Japan Sea
- The Shinsengumi and the Ikedaya Affair: A Rainy Night That Changed the Course of the Restoration
