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The history of Japan, from ancient myth to the modern day. Researched with AI and NotebookLM, but held to a high standard of sourcing.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe history of Japan, from ancient myth to the modern day. Researched with AI and NotebookLM, but held to a high standard of sourcing.
From Edo to the World is hosted by Makati Archives. The show has published 18 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Taming Samurai with Terror and Paperwork" (16 May 2026, 29 minutes), "How Japan’s Terrain Dictated Its Society" (16 May 2026, 15 minutes), and "How Japan invented the word religion" (4 May 2026, 30 minutes).
From Edo to the World publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 18 episodes.
Booking probability for From Edo to the World is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. From Edo to the World requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. From Edo to the World's contact route on record: public web form.
Makati Archives hosts From Edo to the World, a history podcast with 18 episodes published.
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<p>Three men spent sixty years turning a century of civil war into a functioning state. This episode covers the Era of Pacification — Nobunaga’s secular brutality, Hideyoshi’s global overreach, and Ieyasu’s cold...
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<p>Japan’s history didn’t begin with the Sengoku warlords. This episode examines the geographical and institutional foundations that made the country what it was before Nobunaga picked up a sword — the mountain terrain...
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<p>Japan didn’t have a word for “religion” until the 19th century — and when it needed one, it was mostly for diplomatic paperwork. This episode explores how Shinto was defined, separated from Buddhism, and declared a...
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<p>Before the Tokugawa peace could begin, someone had to disarm the country. This episode examines the three edicts that restructured Japanese society from the ground up — Hideyoshi’s Sword Hunt, which stripped...
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<p>Shinto is often described as Japan’s ancient indigenous religion — but the version that exists today was largely assembled, reorganized, and in some cases invented across centuries of political need. This episode...
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<p>He was sixteen years old, leading forty thousand people with nothing left to lose. This episode tells the story of Amakusa Shirō and the Shimabara Rebellion — part peasant uprising, part holy war, and the largest act...
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<p>Japan didn’t open because of four ships. It opened because two centuries of isolation had already begun to crack. This episode traces the decades before Perry’s arrival — Russian probes in the north, the shock of the...
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<p>武士道は、古くから伝わる規範ではない。このエピソードでは、武士の倫理観がどのように作られたかを辿る。平和な時代に存在意義を失った武士階級を正当化しようとした江戸の学者たち、死を厭わない国民軍を必要とした明治の為政者たち、そして降伏を恥辱へと変えた帝国の思想家たち。1945年に兵士たちを死へと駆り立てたその精神は、大部分が1899年に生み出されたものだった。</p>
From Edo to the World
<p>Bushidō was never ancient. This episode examines how the so-called warrior code was constructed — first by Tokugawa scholars justifying a class with nothing left to fight, then by Meiji statesmen who needed a...
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<p>Two hundred and fifty years after Sekigahara, it took four American warships to bring it all down. This episode traces the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate — the fiscal rot, the famines, the ideological crisis, and...
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<p>For a century, Christianity spread through Japan with remarkable speed. Then the shogunate decided it was an existential threat — and spent the next two hundred years trying to eradicate it. This episode traces the...
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<p>Two centuries of peace had a price. This episode looks at the cracks forming beneath the surface of Tokugawa Japan — samurai drowning in debt while merchants grew rich, famines that killed hundreds of thousands, over...
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<p>Japan spent the Tokugawa period thinking hard about what Japan actually was. This episode traces the intellectual currents that ran beneath the surface of the Great Peace — Confucian scholars wrestling with China’s...
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<p>Warriors who couldn’t read were an embarrassment by the 1600s. This episode traces how Tokugawa Japan transformed from a society of soldiers into one of the most literate cultures on earth — and how that literacy...
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<p>Edo was the beating heart of Tokugawa Japan — a city of over a million people, built on hierarchy, held together by obligation. This episode explores how the alternate attendance system, the five highways, and the...
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<p>Tokugawa Japan ran on hierarchy — samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants, and those the system refused to count at all. This episode breaks down the status system that organized every aspect of life in Edo-period...
<p>This AI-generated episode hosted by the NotebookLM twins and sourced from The Making of Modern Japan covers the construction of the Tokugawa Shogunate and how Japan went from the chaos of the Sengoku period to the...
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<p>Shinto is often described as Japan’s ancient religion yet the version that sent soldiers to war was largely invented in the 19th century. This episode traces how the Meiji government turned folk religion into state...
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