Best Lin Pacific Podcasts (2025)

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For They Are My Prize - Lin Pacific 2:54

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Send us a text For They Are My Prize Oh, Man, can’t you see through the veil, to the foe? How he’s closing your heart’s doors so you will not know The voice of the Father, He’s calling your soul Out from destruction and out of Death’s hold. Search and you’ll find, it is all so plain. The Son paid for the Law, though He’d little to gain. “Little?” H…

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Heaven Is Coming Soon - Lin Pacific 1:59

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Send us a text Heaven Is Coming Soon How long will it take me to break Out of this prison of mistakes The preacher man said "Heaven is comin' soon" They don't want the truth They just want it sweet The ones that you lose The ones that you keep The ones you forgive The ones that you won't [Chorus] Who gets to stay Who gets to go Heaven's on the way …

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As He Gazes On Man - Lin Pacific 3:03

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Send us a text As He Gazes On Man - Lin Pacific This terrible picture – Him nailed to a tree? For this lesson endeavor – How can that be? - To teach us His love He would risk us to know The path of destruction in following the foe! [Chorus] As He gazes on Man, His heart is set free To walk among His precious souls – His testimony! But how could it …

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The Love I Enfold You - Lin Pacific 4:19

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Send us a text The Love I Enfold You He lovingly, Carefully, set Man as a stage - Where Man could grow daily, page after page, - And said to the watchers – - “Man is like Me, Watch him grow daily sustained by My tree. [Chorus] The love I enfold you, the life I impart, - Living water flowing straight from My heart.” [Verse] I gave Him My image – I g…

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Twas The Night Before Christ Was - Lin Pacific 4:28

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Send us a text Most beautiful new Christmas Carol. by Lin Pacific 'Twas the night before Christ was 'Twas the night before Christ was, and all through the land Not a creature was stirring, not even a lamb Bethlehem's doors were all shut - Inns were full As Mary and Joseph walked in from the hills The time so appointed had dawned on this earth To sa…

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Galit Friedlander Shares her Story from LaGuardia High School in NYC to Los Angeles Dancer, Dance Educator, and Choreographer 44:21

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Galit Friedlander is a Los Angeles-based choreographer, dance educator, and certified personal trainer with over 20 years of experience in the industry. She has worked on projects including PRINCE’s Welcome 2 America Tour, Pharrell’s Happy video, and served as the lead choreographer for the WNBA’s LA Sparks’ SparKids dance team for six seasons. As …

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Which Vine Have You Been Grafted To? - Lin Pacific 2:23

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Send us a text Which vine have you been grafted to? The vines are grown and hanging full, the grapes of wrath are ripe, The winepress waits prepared and still, just what will it be like? The harvest waits upon the Lord, the workers are too few To spread around the Master’s Word and nourish me and you [Chorus] Which vine have you been grafted to? Wh…

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He Changeth Not, So Is The Law - Lin Pacific 3:21

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Send us a text He Changeth Not God is Love, His Law, His Nature Will be love forever more, And His ways are everlasting He changeth not – so is the law. In the history of the conflict From the time that sin began Till the final overthrow of it The Father’s love still stands! He's the well spring of all glory The fountain of humanity And He sent His…

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Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, "Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, Japan and the Great Divergence in Business History" (JESB, 2025) 32:37

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For much of the late 20th century, Japanese business historians were core contributors to the global field. They published, collaborated, and shaped debates. But something shifted after 2000. Their international visibility - and participation in emerging theoretical conversations - declined. In Japan and the Great Divergence in Business History (Do…

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On The Other Side Of Midnight - Lin Pacific 1:54

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Send us a text On The Other Side Of Midnight On the other side of midnight At that great eternal morn When the Son shall reign in glory evermore And the Father's vindicated And salvation's story told He'll descend and reap His souls from shore to shore [Chorus] Oh The Son's love shines eternal from the rainbow round the throne Where the angels prai…

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Nailed Down - Lin Pacific 1:42

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Send us a text Nailed Down As the wind blows on the ocean Spirit moves humanity, So the mighty battle for each soul Takes place where none can see. But each wind has a direction, It is named from whence it comes, And an “ill” wind blows no good but blows Souls who let go The Son. Throw your anchor to The Rock, He’ll hold and keep you through the st…

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Come Walk With Him - Lin Pacific 3:29

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Send us a text Come Walk With Him Come walk with Him on streets of old, Through pages thin and edged with gold, The Father’s precious lessons here Will fall upon each listening ear Of those within His fold. Come walk with Him through lessons dim, Of how the man fell into sin, And Father’s precious sacrifice That paid the law’s tremendous price – Re…

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A Useful Chengyu - Hébù Shí Ròumí 何不食肉糜 12:40

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This morning, in between recording sessions, I checked out what was headlining on Drudge. And right there was the leading story, "Let Them Eat Steak." You can imagine what the piece was about. This made me think, what a perfect time to post this Chinese Saying podcast episode. I released this one on Patreon and CHP Premium a while back. It's more o…

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Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024) 1:01:17

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In Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule (U Washington Press, 2024), female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and Japanese ideas and practices. A latecomer to the age of imperialism, Japan used modernization efforts in T…

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WWII Pacific Atrocities | Quin Cho and the Kwantung Army 41:18

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In early 2025, I was approached by Jenny Chan at pacificatrocities.org about interviewing one of their experts in an upcoming CHP episode. I had a nice interview with Quin Cho, born in my hometown of Chicago. Those who lament that the young generation of today doesn't bother to learn history, here is some relief. When I saw him, I was surprised to …

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Christopher Nelson, "When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa" (Duke UP, 2025) 1:08:00

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Haunted by the past, ordinary Okinawans struggle to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. They are caught up in a web of people and practices--living and dead, visible and immaterial--that exert powerful forces often beyond their control. In When the Bones Speak, Christopher T. Nelson examines the…

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Dr Shelly Bar, MD talks about her work with Eating Disorders 38:35

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Dr. Bar is a highly qualified and experienced physician with double board certification in Internal Medicine and Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Bar completed her Fellowship at Stanford Medical Center and worked as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford Medical Center. Dr. Bar provides expert care around the medical complications of malnut…

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Stephen C. Mercado, "Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito's Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2025) 38:33

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War, and the threat of war, spurs governments to invest in secret military technologies and weapons. Imperial Japan, ahead of the Second World War, was no exception. After the First World War, Japan set up the Noborito Research Institute: a division of scientists and technicians to invest in overt and clandestine warfare. Stephen Mercado dives into…

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Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025) 44:06

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In Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future (University of Arizona Press, 2025), archaeologist Joe E. Watkins provides a comprehensive look at the rich history and cultural resilience of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan, tracing their journey from ancient times to their contemporary struggles for recognition. Relaying th…

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Ep. 369 | Chenxiang, Pound for Pound, Costs More than Gold 40:41

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Here's something a little different from the usual CHP fare. It concerns a natural substance that's not too well-known outside of Asia, mainly because it's so dang expensive! Chénxiāng 沉香 or Agarwood as it's also known, grows inside the heartwood of certain Aquilaria trees. Chenxiang has a few interesting things about it and is often mentioned in C…

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Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021) 58:38

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A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism Anime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its global reach raises a perplexing question--what happens when anime is produced outside of Japan? Who actually makes anime, and how can this help us rethink notions of cultural production? In Anime's I…

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A Candid Talk with Sondra Kronberg About her Work with Eating Disorder Clients 51:41

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Sondra Kronberg, MS, RD, CEDS-S is a seasoned nutrition therapist and recognized leader in the field of eating disorders. Founder and Executive Director, Eating Disorder Treatment Collaborative, FEED: IOP, CONNECT and CONCIERGE programs in New York. She is the founder and host of the Chats in the Living Room support groups and podcast. Sondra speci…

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Roni Mahler Talks about her new book "Tomboy Ballerina"....Life as a Ballerina with American Ballet Theatre, Baseball and Beyond 53:22

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From a spirited tomboy to a celebrated ballerina, Roni Mahler’s journey is as captivating as her performances. In this episode, Roni shares about her love of the Yankees, Mickey Mantle and all her experiences as a young ballerina on the road. This interview will make you want to buy her new book. In Tomboy Ballerina, she shares the triumphs, heartb…

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Ep. 368 | Wang Jingwei 51:14

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Hi Everyone, just coming up for air. This is actually one of the several new episodes that have been available on Patreon and CHP Premium since July, three months ago. This is a brief overview of the life and times of Wang Jingwei, the 中国头号大汉奸. Strong words. Why is he so despised? What drove him to make the decisions he did that forever branded him…

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M. G. Sheftall, "Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses" (Penguin Random House, 2025) 53:42

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Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (Penguin Random House, 2025) is the second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War. On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapo…

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The Living Present - Lin Pacific 6:50

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Send us a text This gift of The Present was given to us to live in and care for as the days scroll Future into Past. Time marches us through each day, which we can use to share with others and make this Present a better place. We can choose to do what’s right so our future can stretch into Eternity. This is the Creation verses in Genesis put to a d…

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The Vineyard - Lin Pacific 1:08

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Send us a text The Vineyard (Lin Pacific) The Father has a vineyard here on earth, He sent His Son To be rooted into mankind through His birth, To be “The One”. Each man could graft his life into this Vine, And grow in grace, As his life bore fruit so man could make him wine, So sweet to taste. With this wine and Bread of Life he’d nurture other so…

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T’was The Night Before Christ Was - Lin Pacific 3:43

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Send us a text Reading The Night before Christmas, by CC Moore has become a Christmas tradition for so many folk. Here, in our story, The Night Before Christ Was, it tells us, in the same familiar poetic way, of another Christmas Eve that played out so many years ago in a town called Bethlehem. The story in this book is about Someone Else that came…

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Introducing The Chinatown Sting: Lucky Bird 39:58

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Here's a preview of a new podcast, The Chinatown Sting, from our friends at Pushkin Industries. In the late 1980s, a group of women connected through the mahjong parlors in Manhattan's Chinatown were caught in a massive undercover drug bust. But this bust was just the beginning of an even bigger case. Host Lidia Jean Kott and co-reporter Shuyu Wang…

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Aaron L. Miller, "Basketball in Japan: Shooting for the Stars" (Routledge, 2024) 1:03:34

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Today we are joined by Aaron Miller, Lecturer in Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay and the author of Basketball in Japan: Shooting for the Stars (Routledge, 2025.) In our conversation, we discussed the beginnings of basketball in Japan, the ongoing legacy of Samurai culture in Japanese sport, and what Japanese basketball’s succes…

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Sherry Lin, RD talks about work as a Dancer and a Dietitian 42:37

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Sherry Lin is a registered dietitian and dancer from Chicago, IL. She provides a holistic, non-diet approach to help clients experience greater joy and fulfillment in life and in their relationship with food. Sherry is committed to meeting clients where they're at, and walking alongside them as they discover what “healthy” means for them. She value…

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Josh Spell Talks about his Journey from Pacific Northwest Ballet to Therapist 40:16

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Josh Spell is a licensed social worker in the state of Washington and currently works in private practice in Seattle. Before beginning his practice, Josh worked in the field of eating disorders and generalized behavioral health settings. He earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Washington and received his undergraduate degr…

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Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018) 1:08:51

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Maren A. Ehlers’s Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018) examines the ways in which ordinary subjects—including many so-called outcastes and other marginalized groups—participated in the administration and regulation of society in Tokugawa Japan. Within this context, the book focuses…

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Victoria Young, "Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference" (Routledge, 2024) 56:21

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Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference (Routledge, 2024) examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world literature, and the relationship each of these to translation, from the perspective of modern Japanese fiction. By reading between the gaps and revealing tensions and bli…

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Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2025) 1:04:46

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In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic order. In Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II (Basic Books, 2025), historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin opens a longer and wider aperture on World War II a…

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The Other Side Of Midnight - Lin Pacific 0:43

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Send us a text On the other side of midnight, at that great eternal morn, when the Son shall reign in Glory evermore, and the Father’s vindicated and Salvation’s Story told, He’ll descend and reap His souls from shore to shore. Poetry by Lin Pacific Share Link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2526013/episodes/17654269 Amazon Author page https://www.amaz…

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Come Walk - Lin Pacific 1:50

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Send us a text Listen to Come Walk, lyrical thoughts to provoke reflection on various things in life. Daily living can be a challenge, chore or blessing. I choose blessing and you never know who you will meet in your walk of life, but you can be a blessing to them, even with just a smile. Poetry by Lin Pacific Share Link: https://www.buzzsprout.com…

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Did You Catch One Too? - Lin Pacific 5:42

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Send us a text Read this cute story to little kids to help them dress warm when it's cold outside. There are cute little reasons in the book to help kids understand how to dress to stay warm and what might happen if they do not dress warm so they might get cold outside. It takes kids through a fun experience while the pictures tell a story. Nothing…

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The Dinosaur Ball - Have you seen a dinosaur dance? - Lin Pacific 5:11

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Send us a text There were dinosaurs long, long ago. But today we can't find any. So many different dinosaur bones have been found in the ground. Big and small, long legs, short legs, long necks, with tails, fish dinos, bird dinos, more than you can imagine. But now they are all gone, they're gone. Reading this fun story might just give some clues o…

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Need a Noid? Story about a sorry hug - Lin Pacific 3:13

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Send us a text How exciting, Dad’s getting a Noid and maybe more than one if he could be persuaded that they should each have one. A Noid could be really helpful every day. There are a lot of lessons hidden in this lovely story and it is a fun read to find out more about Noids. It has a rhymey flow and is short enough for a bedtime story. Might jus…

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The Best Medicine - Not a Sad Story - Lin Pacific 6:27

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Send us a text Cute children’s book about a daddy's love This is not a sad book. This is a heartwarming kids story to read over and over again. Everyone knows that being sick is not fun. There are people that love us so much they would give anything to see us happy and healthy. In this story, Glory is a very sick little girl. She loves her Papa ver…

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Too Many Lemons - Story about Bun's sweet life - Lin Pacific 4:06

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Send us a text Read this kid's book by author Lin Pacific about how Bun, the Bunny, and his friend, make the best of Bun's lemon problem and end up with a sweet life. Cute bunny story with "Find It" on every page and easy one-glass Cloudy Lemonade Recipe. Amazon Bunny Book Link: https://a.co/d/4Hh1I8u Amazon Author page https://www.amazon.com/store…

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Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 49:03

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How did Tokyo—Japan’s capital, global city, tourist hotspot and financial center—get to where it is today? Tokyo–or then, Edo–had a rather unglamorous start, as a backwater on Japan’s eastern coast before Tokugawa decided to make it his de facto capital. Eiko Maruko Siniawer picks ten distinct moments in Edo’s, and then Tokyo’s, history to show how…

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Are You At Sea - Lin Pacific 2:03

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Send us a text Listen to The Sea Of Humanity, lyrical thoughts to provoke reflection on various things in life. Others might seem to have a perfect life but don't be fooled. When you sweep back the facade we are all struggling to panel-beat ourselves into what we perceive to be a perfect life. Time to let go and be you. Poetry by Lin Pacific Share …

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Ep. 367 | The Unsung Chinese Heroes of D-Day 28:46

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Here's another quickie for you, only a half hour long. It seems not only are the portions at fast-food chains shrinking, so are the CHP episodes. Thanks to a team of amateur historians, WWII enthusiasts, and survivors, this interesting tale can now be told. It concerns a forgotten man named Mr. Lam Ping Yu 林炳堯, who left behind a WWII diary from 194…

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Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence" (Praeger, 2018) 1:06:07

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When you mention Japanese War crimes in World War Two, you’ll often get different responses from different generations. The oldest among us will talk about the Bataan Death March. Younger people, coming of age in the 1990s, will mention the Rape of Nanking or the comfort women forced into service by the Japanese army. Occasionally, someone will men…

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Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022) 1:43:12

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Sarah Teasley's Designing Modern Japan (Reaktion, 2022) unpicks the history of Japanese design from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, focusing on continuities and disruptions within communities and practices of design. Designing Modern Japan explores design in the unfolding contexts of modernization, empire and war, defeat and…

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Alison J. Miller, "Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868-1952" (Routledge, 2024) 36:14

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Envisioning the Empress illuminates dynamic and powerful empresses who impacted not only women in their own time but whose influence extended to later generations of royalty, creating a greater role for imperial women and elevating the status of women’s roles at a crucial juncture in Japanese history. The central focus of this book is visual monarc…

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James D.J. Brown, "Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge" (Hurst, 2025), 39:49

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The Russians came late to Japan, arriving after the Portuguese and other European powers. But as soon as they arrived, Russia tried to use spies and espionage to learn more about their neighbor—with various degrees of success. Sometimes, it failed miserably, like Russia’s early attempts to make contact with pre-Meiji Japan, or the debacle during th…

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Sonia C. Gomez, "Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America" (NYU Press, 2024) 1:01:46

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Picture Bride, War Bride examines how the institution of marriage created pockets of legal and social inclusion for Japanese women during the period of Japanese exclusion. Gomez’s work joins together an analysis of picture brides, or Japanese women who migrated to the United States to join husbands whom they married [in absentia] in the early 20th …