Episode 585 – The All-Seeing Eye, Part 2
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Japan’s “Christian Century” is the source of many fascinating aspects of Japanese history, from modern firearms to tenpura. But there’s one more way that the century from 1543-1639 shaped Japan–as the source of its first conspiracist moment!
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Dickey, Colin. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies: New One-Volume Edition
Hesselink, Reinier. The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640
Leuchtenberger, Jan. Conquering Demons: the “Kirishitan”, Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature
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