Podcasts about saigo

Los especiales de martes digievolucionan: tomen su cafecito, acomódense en el sillón, relájense y disfruten de charlas variadas, exóticas y vigorizantes. En esta centésima septima edición, cumpleañeros del doblaje, Ranma 1/2, Towa no Yūgure, Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai shitemo Yoroshī deshō ka, Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu, Sanda parte 5.

Golf: Mao Saigo Tied for 4th after 1st Round at The Annika Driven by Gainbridge

Los especiales de martes digievolucionan: tomen su cafecito, acomódense en el sillón, relájense y disfruten de charlas variadas, exóticas y vigorizantes. En esta centésima cuarta edición, Ranma 1/2, Towa no Yūgure, Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai shitemo Yoroshī deshō ka, Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu, Sanda parte 4.

Tennis: Rina Saigo of Japan Eliminated in 1st Round of Women's Jiangxi Open

Los especiales de jueves digievolucionan: tomen su cafecito, acomódense en el sillón, relájense y disfruten de charlas variadas, exóticas y vigorizantes. En esta centésima cuarta edición Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai shitemo Yoroshī deshō ka, Ranma 1/2, Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu, y Sanda parte 2.

Los especiales de martes digievolucionan: tomen su cafecito, acomódense en el sillón, relájense y disfruten de charlas variadas, exóticas y vigorizantes. En esta centésima tercera edición arrancamos con la temporada de anime otoñal con Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai shitemo Yoroshī deshō ka, Ranma 1/2 y Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu, parte 1.

Women's Golf: Japan's Mao Saigo Drops 1 Spot to 10th in Weekly Global Rankings

Women's Golf: Japan's Mao Saigo Stays in 9th Place in Latest Global Rankings

Golf: Mao Saigo of Japan Remains in 9th Place in Women's Global Rankings

Golf: Japan's Mao Saigo Rises 1 Notch to 9th in Women's World Rankings

Women's Golf: Mao Saigo of Japan Remains 10th in World Weekly Rankings

Women's Golf: Mao Saigo of Japan Falls 1 Spot to 10th in World Weekly Rankings

Women's Golf: Mao Saigo of Japan Rises 2 Spots to 8th in World Weekly Rankings

Mao Saigo beats four others in a playoff in Houston at the Chevron Championship, Andrew Novak and Ben Griffin at Zurich, and Joaquin Niemann in Mexico City. We run down them all, tackle news and notes, play some games, and more. Presented by High Noon. Support our sponsors: High Noon - Sun's Up! FootJoy - HyperFlex ServPro - Like it never even happened NLU x Evans Scholars: https://secure.wgaesf.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2540&mfc_pref=T&2540.donation=form1 If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ The Nest⁠⁠: No Laying Up's community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It's a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If one of our correspondents is correct in saying that we didn't break 80 with our last episode, then it is very possible we shoot in the low-90s with this one. Iain is absent and Andrew and Eddie drift, rudderless, across the golfing oceans although they do make attempts to discuss the dramatic finish to the first women's major of the season, a first win for Marco Penge and his impressive thighs on the DP World Tour and also wonder if playing good golf on your own is actually good golf at all.Visit: www.petermillar.co.ukhttps://biggolfrace.prostatecanceruk.org/Instagram: @chippingforecastemail us: tcf@thechippingforecast.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Women's Golf: Japan's Mao Saigo Wins Shevron Championship for Her 1st US Victory

Mao Saigo won the 2025 Chevron Championship in The Woodlands, Texas, on Sunday, becoming the fifth Japanese golfer to claim one of the five major titles for women.

Guest Set from Chicago Tech House DJ JL3 Tracklist Meduz, GENESI (ITA); Run Syence; Underground Layton Giordani; Freaks at Night David Guetta, MARTIN HORGER; The Freaks SUBSHIFT, Basura Boyz; Disco Demon Hosanna, Westend; Drum Death OMRI, Yamagucci; Selector Sofi Tukker, DORIANN, Adam Sellouk; Purple Hat Bart Skils, Layton Giordani; Deadly Valentine Yulia Niko, Saigo; The Only One Pharaoh, Elem3nts; Black Swan Meduza, Aya Anne, GENESI (ITA); Freak SLAMM, Dan Molinari; Pink Roddy Lima; Be a Freak Max Styler; I Know You Want To Maceo Plex, Tyler Hille; Nasty

Esthetique - Deep House Petersburg #152 Live @ Saigo Izakaya Bar part.02 [July 2022] by Deep House Petersburg

Comenzamos el último programa de este año 2024 adentrándonos en la historia de Japón. Viajamos a su época más trascendental, la que su puso el cambio a la modernidad en el siglo XIX. Lo hacemos viajando en el cronovisor con nuestro compañero Jesús Callejo quien nos descubre la figura de Saigo Takamori. Luego vamos hasta la Universidad de Salamanca para hablar con Ana Carabias, profesora de Historia Moderna de esa universidad, con quien descubrimos a la verdadera Beatriz Galindo, La Latina, lejos del mito que se ha creado a su alrededor. Nuestro palabrista José Luis Díaz Prieto, nos trae en esta ocasión el término “guiri”. Con Pedro Ortega conoceremos la historia tras las cartas del tarot. Y acabamos con nuestra sección de libros infantiles, Los libros de Candela, que viene con su biblioteca debajo del brazo para proponernos hoy libros para regalar en estas fiestas.

Este último cronovisor de 2024 se lo dedicamos a Saigo Takamori, el último samurái que murió en 1877 defendiendo una serie de valores y tradiciones que durante siglos habían marcado la identidad de Japón. Junto a Jesús Callejo nos hacemos eco de algunas de estas historias curiosas que sirven para crear lazos entre el presente y la tradición.

US Golf Woman: Saigo Becomes 1st Japanese in 34 Yrs to Win Rookie of Year Award

Golf: Mao Saigo of Japan Finishes Tied for 19th in LPGA's FM Championship

Golf Women: Mao Saigo Comes 4th after British Open R1

This episode is a follow up on the Satsuma Rebellion - which we aired 2 weeks ago and is tagged below. We enjoyed looking at the life of Saigo Takamori with Sensei Randy. His first visit to the podcast was in 2019 - our first year. Here's the episode in case you'd like to hear a little about him:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/1815622During this episode we mentioned our earlier episode on Sun Tzu's The Art of War. So I tagged it here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/12656331And as promised. Here's the episode on the Satsuma Rebellion:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/15494331Don't forget our support the show link below, if you have spare time and feel like clicking...Thanks!Support the Show.We appreciate our listeners so much and hope that you'll get in touch. Reach us all over the web. Facebook and twitter are simply wildcatdojo. However, insta is wildcatdojo conversations. (There's a story there.)On YouTube (where we are now airing some of our older episodes - complete with a slideshow that I tweak constantly) https://www.youtube.com/@wildcatdojo9869/podcastsAnd for our webpage, where you can also find all the episodes and see some info about the dojo: http://wildcatdojo.com/025-6/podcast.html . And of course, we love it when you support our sponsor Honor Athletics. Here is their link:https://honor-athletics.com/Thank you for listening.

US Golf Women: Saigo Finishes 2nd at CPKC Open

Golf: Yamashita Finishes 2nd at US Women's Open, Shibuno, Saigo 7th

Golf: Shibuno, Iwai, Saigo Tied for 4th at 1st Round of Women's PGA Championship

Three samurai are credited with significant contributions to the success of the Meiji Revolution and in this episode we explore their backgrounds and experiences during the tumultuous Bakumatsu period.Support the Show.

This time, let's take a look at what Saigo did, aspired to and dreamed of in the new era. And what he regretted or was angry about. And, most importantly, what earned him the title of the last samurai, which still inspires not only the Japanese but people all over the world.Support the show: https://japanexplained.com/#supportMore info on https://japanexplained.com/saigo-takamori-en/Instagram: @japanexplainedCover design: @justlavi

Saigo has returned from exile, and in Kyoto his lord, Hisamistu, fights daily with Hitoshubashi Keiki. How did Japan get into this mess, and how can it be saved? Let's take a step-by-step look at the Forbiden Gate incident, the SatCho alliance, the abdication of the last Shogun, the Battle of Toba-Fushimi and finally the arrival of the Meiji era.Support the show: https://japanexplained.com/#supportMore info on https://japanexplained.com/saigo-takamori/Instagram: @japanexplainedCover design: @justlavi

Sketch, LaserKid and Umeko surive the rumbling and finally lay Attack on Titan to rest. Music credits for this episode: "UNDER THE TREE" as performed by SiM "Saigo no Kyojin - The Last Titan" as performed by Linked Horizon

The 19th Century was a tremendously exciting time for Japan. By then, the island country had been isolated from the rest of the world for some three centuries. But now, having been forced to open its doors by the Americans, Japan was exposed to both the wider world as a whole as well as Western ideals. But not everyone welcomed such changes. One who was perhaps the most resistant to such changes was Saigo Takamori, better known to history as Saigo-san, and he'd ultimately lead a rebellion against the Japanese government. But how did this conflict come about? Who was Saigo-san exactly? And how did he and his cause become an enduring symbol of opposition to government tyranny? Find out in the first episode of the new year! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historylovescompany/support

Golf Women: Saigo, Yoshida Make Good Scores to Earn LPGA Tour Berths

Golf: Mao Saigo of Japan Moves to 2nd Place from 15th in LPGA Q-Series

Ryktbar för sitt mod i strid och frontfigur i den mest omstörtande tiden i Japans historia men den nya ordning som han var medskapare till blev hans egen undergång. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Redaktionen för detta avsnitt består av:Cecilia Düringer – programledare och manusJenny Bergman – producent, manus och researchZardasht Rad – scenuppläsarePeter Jonason – ljuddesign och slutmixVill du veta mer om Saigo Takamori? Här är några av de böcker som ligger till grund för avsnittet:”Japans Historia” av Thomas Ekholm och Ingemar Ottosson”Samurajerna” av Monica Braw och Juhani Lompolo”Saigo Takamori – The Man Behind the Myth” av Charles L Yates”The last Samurai – The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori” av Mark Ravina

I avsnitt 106 pratar Charlie och Alexander återigen om samurajer och den här gången om Saigo Takamori. Saigo benämns som den sista samurajen och i avsnittet lyfts inte enbart hans historia utan också hur och varför Japan bröt sin isolering som varat under 265 år. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In der Nacht des 23. auf den 24. September 1877 haben sich knapp 500 Samurai in das gebirgige Hinterland Kagoshimas bei den Höhlen von Shiroyama verschanzt. Angeführt von Saigo Takamori sind sie die Letzten, die versuchen, ihre Kriegerkaste zu retten. In einem modernen Japan ist nämlich kein Platz mehr für die Samurai, ihr Kriegshandwerk und ihre traditionellen Werte. Mit Sakeschalen, dem Reiswein, stoßen Saigo, sein treuer Gefährte Beppu Shinsuke und die anderen Samurai an diesem Abend ein letztes Mal an, bevor sie sich den 30.000 Männern der kaiserlichen Armee stellen, die den Befehlen preußischer und französischer Offiziere gehorchen... ........Das Folgenbild zeigt die Samurai im Kampf gegen die kaiserliche Armee während der Unterwerfung von Kagoshima in Satsuma. Gemälde von Yoshitoshi, 1877.........WERBUNGDu willst dir die Rabatte unserer Werbepartner sichern? Hier geht's zu den Angeboten!........LITERATURHabersetzer, Roland: Die Krieger des alten Japan - Berühmte Samurai, Ronin und Ninja, 2. Auflage, Chemnitz 2008.Schwentker, Wolfang: Die Samurai, 6. Auflage, München 2023..........UNTERSTÜTZUNGIhr könnt uns dabei unterstützen, weiterhin jeden 10., 20. und 30. des Monats eine Folge zu veröffentlichen!Folgt und bewertet uns bei Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Podimo, Instagram, Twitter oder über eure Lieblings-Podcastplattformen. Über diesen Spendenlink oder unseren Fanartikel-Shop könnt ihr uns auch finanziell unterstützen!Wir freuen uns über euer Feedback, Input und Vorschläge zum Podcast, die ihr uns über das Kontaktformular auf der Website, Instagram und unsere Feedback E-Mail: kontakt@his2go.de schicken könnt. An dieser Stelle nochmals vielen Dank an jede einzelne Rückmeldung, die uns bisher erreicht hat und uns sehr motiviert..........COPYRIGHTMusic from https://filmmusic.io: “Sneaky Snitch” by Kevin MacLeod and "Plain Loafer" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY !Neu! Jetzt hier His2Go unterstützen, Themen mitbestimmen und Quiz2Go mit Moderatorin Chiara erleben! https://plus.acast.com/s/his2go-geschichte-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Now we're getting really obscure, with a movie that one of our lovely hosts watched on Sci Fi channel late at night many years ago. She only really remembered the end, and what an end it is. The rest of the movie is certainly a trip, too. For the right reasons? The wrong reasons? The answer lies within. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howsitholdup/support

Last time we spoke about the modernization efforts of Big Brother and Little Brother, aka China and Japan. Both nations went about the process of modernization in vastly different ways. Japan began its Meiji restoration, an incredible hyper modernization process done  to thwart colonization by western powers. Yet China was hampered by hardline conservatives like Empress Dowager Cixi who sought instead  to restore the Qing Dynasty's symbolic grandeur over technological innovations such as railways. China's greatest leaders like Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang did all they could to usher in some form of modernization.  Li Hongzhang emerged as the champion of modernization efforts for China, but he kept butting heads with stubborn conservatives wishing instead to reclaim the Qing's former symbolic glory.. It would not only be the conservatives in China he would have to face, for the Empire of the Rising Sun was growing, and forcing China into the shade. #37 This episode is China & Japan & the Hermit Kingdom    Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. In the early 1860's, before Emperor Meiji took to the throne, the Japanese sought to establish diplomatic relations with China. The Japanese regarded China as an enormous nation that could provide markets for their merchants, but more importantly, China could cooperate with Japan in the face of Western challenges. Who better to help thwart off the west, than Big Brother? In October of 1870, the Japanese official Date Munenari went to Tianjin to meet Li Hongzhang to see if they could open formal diplomatic relations. Li Hongzhang believed in the value of establishing relations with Japan and the importance for China to modernize and self-strengthen. Li Hongzhang admired Japan for preventing westerners from invading their nation and limiting the activities of westerners within her borders. The meeting was a cordial one, both sides saw common interest in working together to resist the west. In 1871 on September 13th, Li Hongzhang and Date Munenari signed the Friendship and Trade Treaty, the first diplomatic document between China and Japan in modern history. Li Hongzhang agreed that the two nations would not launch aggression against another and that if either nation were involved in a conflict with an outside power the other would come to their assistance. It sounded a lot like Pan-Asia unity was atleast on its way, but before the treaty could be ratified the Japanese tried to eliminate the clause to provide assistance and added a new clause, that Japan would be given most favored nation, thus giving Japan the same rights that the western nations had forced upon China, yes it was an unequal treaty clause. As you can imagine Li Hongzhang was greatly annoyed by this and delayed the ratification to try and get the Japanese to back down. By May of 1873 the Japanese yielded, accepting the mutual assistance clause and abandoned the most favored nation clause. Leaders of China and Japan than expressed that their nations shared common culture and were a common race “Tongwen, Tongzu - Dobun, Doshu” and thus they shared an interest in working together to respond to the threat of the west. When this treaty was signed, the Iwakura mission had not yet returned to Japan, but Emperor Meiji had assigned Japans foreign minister, Soejima Taneoimi to go to China to learn about her position on the issue of the Ryukyus and Taiwan. Japan had interests in them and knew this would lead to conflict with the Qing. Soejima was an expert on the Chinese classics and skilled at Chinese poetry. Thus when he went over and the Chinese hosts began to make it clear Japan was in a supplicant relationship with China because she held the Chinese emperor, Soejima used his knowledge to wedge Japan into a special position. He came to Tianjin and met with Li Hongzhang. Famously when they met, Li Hongzhang was in traditional clothing, while Soejima was in western attire and Li criticized him for this. Soejima then went to Beijing and waited several days trying to get an audience with high level Qing officials. The Qing were greatly angered by Japanese attempt to get most favored nation status in the treaty. Thus they were really trying to hammer in that Japan was the supplicant to China. Soejima was upset at the condescension with which he was treated. He quoted the Duke of Zhou stating to the Qing “If you treat [foreigners] as barbarians, they will be just that, but if you treat them as true gentlemen, they will indeed become true gentlemen.” Soejima was the first Japanese person in modern times to meet the Qing emperor. Prince Gong greeted him and told Soejima he would not have to kowtow before the emperor. The kowtow issue had actually been resolved because Western diplomats had made too many problems of it, by proxy Japan would not have to either. The Qing made an effort to show respect to Soejima by seeing him before other foreign diplomats and allowed him to bow just 3 times. Soejima was wine and dined by Li Hongzhang in Tianjin later, it was extremely cordial and there was goodwill between the men. Soejima's experience in China had him returning to Japan confident that China would not stop Japan from expanding her trading activities in the Ryukyus and China. Japan then prepared a legation staff to China and established a formal diplomatic office in Beijing with Mori Arinori as the ambassador. Li Hongzhang advocated that Beijing should establish a legation in Japan, arguing that if China had had a legation there they could have prevented Japan from attacking Taiwan in 1874. China's legation staff would arrive in Tokyo in december of 1877, again slow to the mark. Li Hongzhang was cautious about Japanese intentions now and in 1876 met with Mori Arinori. They shared concerns over Russian advances and Li Hongzhang suggested to Mori Arinori that their nations should cooperate on matters in Korea.  Japan was focusing efforts to strengthen its northern island against possible Russian threats. They viewed Sakhalin, Manchuria and Korea to be regions of national security concern. While Japan worried about Russia encroaching on Hokkaido from the sea, China worried about Russia encroaching on its northeast region. Although the trans-siberian railway only began construction in 1891 their efforts to settle people across Siberia in preparation for its construction began much earlier. The Qing had not allowed non Manchu people to reside in their homeland of Manchuria since conquering the Ming dynasty centuries before. To strengthen resistance against Russia, in 1878 the Qing changed their immigration policy to allow and even encourage non-Manchu to come to Manchuria. Within a few years many migrants came from various parts of China to settle in Manchuria. Japan likewise was sending settlers to develop Hokkaido, but unlike Japan, the Qing had no real development plans to modernize manchuria.  Soon after Hokkaido began being developed the Japanese next move was to gain control over the Ryukyu islands south of Japan's 4 main islands. This would be the first real tension between Japan and China. From 1862 to the mid 1870s Japan had concentrated on defense and thus things revolved around her 4 main islands. After the mid 1870s however, Japan gained in strength and began to expand their defensive perimeter. The Ryukyu, in Chinese “the Liuqui Kingdom” was led by indigenous peoples who oversaw the small islands stretching between Kyushu and Taiwan. The Ryukyu kingdom tried to fight for its independence by showing good will to both China and Japan and this brought Qing and Tokugawa presence. The Ryukyu kingdom maintained Chinese and Japanese emissaries who came regularly, but never at the same time. The Ryukyu kingdom paid tribute to China and traded with her, thus was influenced heavily by her. However culturally the Ryukyu were closer to Japan and Satsuma domain in particular had a large influence on her.  From 1871 to 1874, Japan used a shipwreck incident involving some Ryukyu fisherman off the coast of Taiwan to strengthen her rights to govern the Ryukyu islands. In 1871 Ryukyu fisherman in 4 small boats got stuck in a typhoon sinking 1, shipwrecking 2 and 1 remained afloat. The survivors made their way ashore on Taiwan where 44 of them were killed by Taiwanese aboriginals. 12 fisherman survived and escaped aboard their last boat back to the Ryukyus. At this time Taiwan was under the control of Fujian province and the Japanese government demanded China compensate the fisherman. This inherently was also the Japanese government claiming the Ryukyu islands to belong to them. For two years the issue went unresolved and in 1874 Japan launched a punitive expedition led by Saigo Tsugumichi, the brother to the famous last Samurai Saigo Takamori. If you are interested in the story of Saigo by the way over at the Pacific War channel I have an episode dedicated to the Satsuma Rebellion, what inspired the film the Last Samurai, though that movie is sort of a mix between the Boshin War and the Satsuma rebellion, still good movie just not historically accurate. Well the Qing officials explained to the Japanese that the Taiwanese were not technically under Qing control and that the Ryukyu islands were actually under Qing jurisdiction. The Japanese expeditionary forces remained on Taiwan, intentionally to intimidate China.  Soejima and the official Okubo Toshimichi went to China to discuss the issue and under pressure the Qing officials agreed to pay compensation to Japan for the Ryukyu sailors, but later stated they were unaware the payment would also provide Japan with support for her claim over the Ryukyu islands. Li Hongzhang was livid over this betrayal and stated that while the Europeans were at least honest in their negotiations, the Japanese were duplicitous. By the mid 1870's the Japanese and Chinese militaries both increased their presence in the Ryukyus. Then in 1879 during the process of abolishing the old feudal domains to replace them with prefectures, Japan officially recognized the Ryukyu islands as the prefecture we know today as Okinawa. Japan followed this up by ordering Okinawa to stop sending tribute to China. Now Li Hongzhang had supported relations with Japan, even with their incursions in Taiwan in 1874 and their swindle of treaty deals, but in 1880 China refused Japan's official proposal concerning the Ryukyus. China however did not follow this up militarily. The problems between China and Japan would only worsen and it would be Korea stuck in the middle. Japan's interests in Korea were both for security and economic. Of all the territories near Japan, Korea was the most significant strategic area. She was in the vortex of Russia, China and Japan. Korea had also been the crux of two military clashes between Japan and China in 661-663 and 1592-1598. Alongside that Korea had been the staging area for the failed Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274-1281. The German military adviser to Japan, Major Jacob Meckle stated that Korea was “a dagger thrust at the heart of Japan” and this had a profound effect on Japanese strategists. Japan was concerned other nations, like Russia, would use Korea as a base from which to attack Japan. Yet if Japan could establish a military presence on the peninsula, well that would prevent this from ever occurring.  Historically Japan had dealt with Korea, better called the Joseon dynasty through the Tsushima islands and Pusan island. Both Korea and Japan took up isolationist policies and much like Nagisaki acted as Japan's open port for so long, Korea kept Pusan as its open port. During the Sakoku period, Japan gave the Tsushima domain the responsibility of dealing with Korea. There had always been limited trade between the two nations, but things certainly changed after Japan kicked off its Meiji restoration. Japan had looked to nations like Britain as an example of how to build a strong economy. This led Japanese officials to seek a relationship like Britain had when it came to economic activity. To manufacture products, sell it to its colonies and build up its own economy. Their idea for this was to import soybeans and wheat from Korea and sell Korea industrial products. Initially Japan's only major export was raw silk, so they decided to try exporting silk textiles. In late 1869 a Japanese representative from Tsushima was sent to Pusan to announce Japan was to have a new emperor, standard stuff. What was not standard however was in the letter sent to the Koreans the term for the Japanese emperor used the Ko character rather than Taikun. The Ko character was used to refer to the Qing emperor, implying the Joseon Dynasty's emperor was inferior. By using the Ko character for the Japanese emperor, Japan was trying to establish the same relationship. And so the Korean officials refused to receive the new representative and his mission as a result. The Koreans wanted to remain in the sinocentric world as tributaries to the Qing. This fiasco led to the legendary Seikanron debates, in which Saigo Takamori argued Japan should perform a punitive expedition against Korea, again if you want to hear more about that hilarious tale check out my Satsuma Rebellion episode on the Pacific War channel. Long story short, the Japanese leadership knew they were not yet strong enough to embark on such a venture so they blocked Saigo's motion. Now Japan did not simply give up on the Korean situation, they kept trying to send envoys to force Korea to recognize the equality between Japan and China. In the meantime in 1875, the steam gunboat Un'yo under the command of Inoue Yoshika was dispatched to survey the Korean coastal water. On the morning of September the 20th, Inoue put ashore a party on the island of Ganghwa to request water and provisions and here came a major conflict. Ganghwa had quite recently been the place of two major conflicts, a French expedition against Korea occurred in 1871 and an American expedition the same year. Thus the men manning the fortifications at Ganghwa were trigger happy with fresh memories of what foreign ships could do to them. When the Japanese came ashore, the Korean shore batteries fired upon the Un'yo.  The Japanese as you might imagine were really pissed off and they quickly dispatched 32 men, 10 marines, 19 sailors and 3 officers to attack Yeongjong fort. The men landed near the eastern gate of the fortress and immediately white coated Joseon defenders began firing their antiquated matchlocks and some arrows down upon the Japanese. A Japanese sailor was wounded by a matchlock ball and another was hit in the groin by an arrow. The Japanese pressed their attack climbing over a wall to open the gates as their marines rushed into the fort. The Un'yo fired its 6.3 in and 5.5 in deck guns to support the assault. The Koreans tried to flee through their western gate only to run into 6 Japanese sailors who ambushed them. Kawamura Kwanshu, a Japanese officer present had this to say "they clambered down the steep bank on the south-eastern side, and in hopes of escaping to the opposite island … they stripped off their clothes and plunged into the sea. Unfortunately, the tide was high and too deep to wade across. Many of them hesitated and  we fired on them without mercy ― 24 Koreans were killed on the rocks and many more drowned trying to swim to safety. Only six or seven were seen making it safely ashore on the distant island.” The commander of the fort, Yi Min-dok managed to escape as the Japanese plundered the fort which Kawamura tells us " We took 36 bronze cannons and a drum nearly 6 feet in diameter. In addition to this there were four drums three feet in diameter. Their trumpets were very like toy trumpets used by children in Japan. Their bows also were very like the Japanese. Their arrows were exactly like those in Japan. The swords were numerous, but they must have been bought in Japan. The guns were all matchlocks. Among the booty was a French book on gunnery translated into Chinese." Many Koreans were captured and they were forced to carry the plunder to the Un'yo as the Rising Sun flag was raised over the fort. The Japanese held the island awaiting a challenge from Korea, but none came. The next day the Un'yo returned to Japan leaving Yeongjong in ruins. The entire ordeal turned into an implicit threat to Korea, if they refused to recognize Japan's claim and open up relations Japan would use its military might.  Within Japan, the Korea incidents had gone hand in hand with the Satsuma rebellion of 1877 to push the Japanese public to support military action in Korea. The Meiji leadership were under pressure, but they hoped to avoid conflict by resolving such problems through diplomacy. Li Hongzhang perceived that if Japan were to invade Korea, this might provoke Russia to respond and thus China also wanted to resolve such issues through diplomacy. The Qing dynasty officially held suzerainty over the Joseon Dynasty, thus they held the right to approve Korea's foreign policy decisions but not to interfere with her domestic affairs. For centuries China held this right, but did not exercise it. Then in 1875, Mori Arinori was sent to Beijing seeking Qing support to open trade between Japan and Korea. Mori Arinori met with the Qing office for general management of affairs concerning the various countries, what a mouthful, known as the Zongli Yamen. The Zongli Yamen officials stated while Korea was a Chinese dependency, China still could not interfere with her domestic affairs and thus could not demand she open up trade with Japan. So the next year Mori Arinori met with Li Hongzhang over the issue and both men sought a peaceful agreement. Mori Arinori advocated for Korea to be treated under international law as a sovereign state. Now Ito Hirobumi the rising political leader of Japan during this time believed progress could not be made opening Korea up by working with the Qing. He urged his colleagues that Japan should work with Korea directly instead. Korea at this time was going through some major changes as well. The young Emperor Gojong turned 21 years old in 1873 and replaced his father Yi Ha-eung who was the Heungseon Daewongun, basically a regent ruling the dynasty. His father was a conservative with a very simple foreign policy it went like this according to the American Historian Bruce Cummings “no treaties, no trade, no catholics, no west and no Japan”. Yes the Daewongun liked his isolationist policy and he was not wrong about doing so. By keeping Korea as bottled up as possible he was able to keep the western powers arguably out for quite some time. However the problem with this was while keeping the west out you were also hindering chances at modernization and an industrial revolution. Korea was known as the Hermit Kingdom and while she tried her best to keep the world out, the world eventually would come crashing in.  When Gojong came into power in 1873, unlike his father he was much more willing to consider opening up and working with the Japanese. Now alongside Gojong was his wife, the famous Empress Myeongseong, also called Empress Min. She was born to the Yeoheung Min Clan in 1851. They were a noble clan who historically held high positions in the Joseon dynasty. She lost her father at age 7 and was raised by her mother and other Min relatives. When Gojong turned 15, his father sought a wife for him. He wanted someone with no close relatives so she could not harbor much political ambitions, but came from a noble lineage. He rejected many, until he found the orphaned Min who was beautiful and of ordinary level of education. She was married to Gojong and after Daewongun realized the empress had political ambitions. Daewongun had this to say of her “she was a woman of great determination and poise”, despite this he paid little mind to her and things moved on. Empress Min would quickly ruffle feathers so to speak. She showed herself to be very assertive and ambitious. She did not toss lavish parties for the nobles nor participated in the normal extravagant lifestyle, you know wine and dining, tea parties with the princes and princesses all that jazz you see in the Crown. No instead she spent a lot of her time self educating, reading books reserved for men. She studied history, science, politics, the works.  By the age of 20 she began trying to play an active role in politics in spite of the Daewongun and other officials trying to stop her. She then bore child prematurely who died 4 days after birth. This prompted the Daewongun to state publicly that she was unable to bear a healthy male child, which became quite a public scandal. Queen Min even suspected her father in law had slipped her ginseng to cause her pregnancy issues. Daewongun proceeded to push his son to conceive a child through a concubine called Yi Gwi-in and she soon gave birth to Prince Wanhwa. Daewongun quickly tossed the title of crown prince upon the child and it looked like the jig was up for Empress Min. However Empress Min secretly began to form a powerful faction against the Daewongun. The faction included high officials, scholars, members of the Min Clan and they made a move to remove the Daewongun from power. Empress Min's adoptive older brother, Min Seung-Ho along with the Joseon court scholar Choe Ik-Hyeon formally impeached the Daewongun arguing that Gojong, then age 22 should rule in his own right. The royal council agreed to this and Daewongun was forced to retire. The second he was out of the picture, Empress Min banished Yi Gwi-in and her child to a village outside the capital and stripped them of royal titles. The child also died on january 12th of 1880. Now Empress Min had control over the Joseon court and quickly appointed trusted family members in high court positions to assert her dominant role as Queen consort. So yeah she was a firebrand of a woman, a very interesting character, I do apologize my knowledge of Korean history is limited, but I do recommend if you are into Korean tv series there are quite a few on her like Empress Myeongseong from 2001. Now just a few months after the Un'yo incident, Japan sent an emissary to Korea to push a treaty. It was the exact same type of situation Japan faced when Commodore Matthew Perry's blackships, gunboat diplomacy. King Gojong signed what became known as the Ganghwa Treaty: this opened up 3 Korean ports to Japan, one at Pusan right away, one Wonsan in 1880 and another at Inchon and 1883. The treaty was an unequal treaty, very much in the same light as the ones forced upon Japan by western nations. The treaty had ended the Joseon dynasties tributary status under the Qing dynasty now she was an independent state. The Chinese were now suspecting Japan sought a presence on the peninsula and Li Hongzhang openly expressed fears that Japan might develop territorial ambitions on the mainland. The Chinese and Japanese continued talks about cooperation against the West, especially Russia, but they were also now quite wary of another. Now Korea was not idle during all of this and her officials sought a way to secure her. King Gojong sent a mission to Japan headed by Kim Hong-jip. Kim Hong-jip was presented a plan by a Chinese diplomat named Huang Zunxian there called “a strategy for Korea”. It warned that if Korea was threatened by an empire like Russia, Korea should maintain friendly relations with Japan, China and seek an alliance with the United States to counterweight Russia. Kim reported this to King Gojong who was impressed with the plan. Then in 1880 following the Chinese advice King Gojong established diplomatic ties with the US. Negotiations began between all the nations in Tianjin and the Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce and navigation was signed by Korea and the US. However during the negotiations, issues rose up. The Chinese insisted that Korea was not independent and still a dependency of China. America firmly opposed such a thing, stating the new treaty should build upon the Treaty of Ganghwa which stipulated Korea as an independent state. A compromise was made between China and the US stipulating that Korea held a special status as a tributary state of China. Now as of 1879, China had given Li Hongzhang responsibility for relations with Korea. Li Hongzhang urged Korean officials to adopt China's self-strengthening program to do the same for their nation in response to foreign threats. Korea after all had just opened herself to the world and now would pursue modernization under a doctrine known as tongdo sogi “eastern wars and western machines”. To modernize Korea would incorporate western technology while trying to preserve her culture, it was much alike to the Meiji restoration. In 1881 Korea established the T'ongni kimu amun “office for extraordinary affairs” modeled on the Qing administrative structures. That same year a mission was sent to Japan to see their modernized factories, military, and education system. Korea then hired a Japanese military attache, Lt Horimoto Reizo to help create a modern army for Korea. This led to the Pyolgigun “special skills force”, where around 100 men of Korea's aristocracy were given Japanese military training.  I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. Trouble was brewing between the Qing dynasty and the Empire of the Rising Sun. It seemed the Hermit Kingdom of Korea was a continuous source of conflict for the two empires, and perhaps might drag them into a war that would change the balance of power in Asia forever

“I teach Kodokan judo as a way of life.” — Jigoro Kano “Even though he was drunker than usual, Saigo came to the driver's aid. The burly sailors laughed out loud: “Scram, midget!” Much to their great surprise and considerable pain, in a flash, the pocket Hercules subsequently hurled each of them into the river.” — John Stevens “I have not been able to transmit my ideals to many students, and there are unfortunately few instructors who can impart proper Kodokan values.” — Jigoro Kano “The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many.” — Jigoro Kano In the second half of the 1800s, after the United States made Japan an offer it couldn't refuse, Japan experienced a period of crisis and extremely fast modernization. Swept by efforts to copy everything that made the West powerful, Japan turned its back on much of its traditional culture. Martial arts were considered anachronistic and irrelevant, and looked well on their way to disappear into the dustbin of history—much in the same way as they had done in other parts of the world. In 1882, a small, nerdy man named Jigoro Kano made his stand to reverse this process. Kano was only 22 years old, and had only little over 5 years of martial arts practice. But what 22-year old Kano started in some spare rooms in a Buddhist temple was going to affect the lives of millions of people.This story is about martial arts, but is also about much more. This story is about the dramatic transformations in Japanese history in the 1800s (and without understanding them, it's pretty much impossible to understand the role played by Japan in WWII.) It is a story about how one individual can radically impact millions. It's about how cultural traditions that are seemingly anachronistic can be reinvented to provide value in a modern context. It's a story about Taoist philosophy, Olympic Games and U.S. presidents, pro-wrestling and helping society, the tension between globalization and nationalism, the role that physical education can play in shaping a person's character, and a bunch of other things that have only marginally to do with martial arts per se. Among other things, in this episode: Shiro Saigo, Kano's pocket-sized enforcerBlood oathsHistory's first black beltsThe four ‘heavenly lords' of the Kodokan Judo gaining a reputation through challenge fightsLeglocksShiro Saigo and his NWA attitudeAkira Kurosawa moviesKano clashing with nationalism and militarismTheodore RooseveltMitsuyo MaedaThe origins of pro-wrestling The Olympic GamesSo, with this in mind, let's get rolling. If you feel generous and enjoy History on Fire, please consider joining my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/historyonfire to access plenty of bonus content. If you'd like to go to Japan for a historical tour with yours truly as a guide, please check out https://geeknationtours.com/tours/signature-battlefield-series-classic-samurai-from-the-gempei-war-to-the-mongol-invasions-2023/Big thank you to Athletic Greens for sponsoring this episode. Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit https://athleticgreens.com/HOF Also a big thank you to Trade Coffee. Trade is offering our listeners a total of $30 off your subscription plus free shipping at https://www.drinktrade.com/historyonfire History on Fire is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://www.BetterHelp.com/HOF to get 10% off your first month.

Saigo Takamori, the Great Saigo or the Last Samurai is the ideal Japanese man and one of Japan's most beloved historical characters. In popular imagination, Saigo is THE perfect samurai. His image is so heavily embellished that it is sometimes hard to see where reality meets fiction. But let's try to separate them anyway.  Support the show: https://japanexplained.com/#support Cover art: @justlavi

The Hunted return to the Akumakyofu, hoping to find the Saigo family burial ground once again.

Totsuca Chuo, designer of Ostia, joined me to discuss his game that uses the mancala mechanism in a unique way. Totsuca sent his answers via email, and Quentin Hudspeth provides his voice. A big thank you goes out to Saigo, who helped Totsuca translate. Ostia comes to Kickstarter soon from Uchibacoya Piece. Quentin Hudspeth can be found at quentinhudspeth.com

Hello and welcome to the Stress Factor Podcast episode number 270, for this episode we have DJ B-12 with a fresh 40 track, 72 minute long drum and bass studio mix for April of 2021. Loads of great vocal, electro, liquid and musical tunes on this episode. This show features tunes and remixes by these artists and labels Kanine, UNLEASHED, Flowidus Ft. Matisse, Elevate Records (UK), Tatora, Integral Records, Chords, RAM Records, GLXY Ft. Rhi, Shogun Audio, Nectax, Overview Music, Skuff, Deep Pan, Zero T, Computer Integrated Audio, Platinum Breaks feat. Eden, Bladerunner, DNB Allstars Records, Prozak, Time Is Now Records, Painted Skies, Differential Recordings, Terror feat. Imogen Storey, Cyantific, Spearhead Records, Thirteenth Output, Universe Axiom, AROHA, Tokyo Prose, Wairua Audio, Telomic, Goldfat Records, hell g., Supra Recordings, BassCodez, Liquid Flavours Records, Jolliffe feat. Erika, Drum Army, NuTone, Hospital Records, Danny Byrd feat. MC GQ, Remarc Remix, Conrad Subs, Raider Records, Maximono feat. Saigo, Satl, Parasoul Music, Surve, Mustard Cuts, Nu Venture Records, Netsky, Flava D, Metrik, Break, Calyx and Teebee, Symmetry Recordings, Voltage, Harriet Jaxxon, Fred V, Kyrist, Saikon, GLXY, Koven, Grafix, Monstercat, Dunk feat. DJ Andy, Grid Recordings UK, Qumulus, Lunar Records, Seba feat. Emily Harkness, Serge Gee, LowFreqMX, Twintone feat. Anastasia, LW Recordings, InnVoice, Dream Killer Recordings, and Dimension feat. TS Graye. Tracklist 01. Kanine - One [UNLEASHED] 02. Flowidus - Fire Ft. Matisse [Elevate Records (UK)] 03. Tatora - All Went Wrong [Integral Records] 04. Chords - Arrhythmia [RAM Records] 05. GLXY Ft. Rhi - Sweet Lows [Shogun Audio] 06. Nectax - Beyond Stateless [Overview Music] 07. Skuff - Following Visions [Deep Pan] 08. Zero T - Radical Step [Computer Integrated Audio] 09. Platinum Breaks - Everything feat. Eden (Bladerunner Dirty Mix) [DNB Allstars Records] 10. Prozak - Leave You [Time Is Now Records] 11. Painted Skies - No Return [Differential Recordings] 12. Terror - Into You (feat. Imogen Storey) (Cyantific Remix) [Spearhead Records] 13. Thirteenth Output - Come Back 2016 [Universe Axiom] 14. AROHA - L2K (Tokyo Prose Remix) [Wairua Audio] 15. Telomic - By My Side [Goldfat Records] 16. hell g. - Microdosing [Supra Recordings] 17. BassCodez - Break That Bridge [Liquid Flavours Records] 18. Tatora - Nightmares [Integral Records] 19. Jolliffe - Chasing Storms feat. Erika [Drum Army] 20. Nu-Tone - Jonas [Hospital Records] 21. Danny Byrd - Salute (feat. MC GQ) (Remarc Remix) [Hospital Records] 22. Conrad Subs - For the DJ (Original Mix) [Raider Records] 23. Maximono feat. Saigo - Tremblin (Satl Remix) [Parasoul Music] 24. Surve - Hoverboard [Spearhead Records] 25. Mustard Cuts - I'm Not Here [Nu Venture Records] 26. Netsky - Memory Lane (Flava D Remix) [Hospital Records] 27. Metrik - Cadence (VIP) [Hospital Records] 28. Break - Keepin It Raw (Calyx and Teebee Remix) [Symmetry Recordings 29. Voltage - Save Me From Myself (Harriet Jaxxon Remix) [Hospital Records] 30. Fred V - Away (Kyrist Remix) [Hospital Records] 31. Saikon - Need Ya [Spearhead Records] 32. GLXY - Fourth State [Shogun Audio] 33. Koven - Worlds Collide (Grafix Remix) [Monstercat] 34. Dunk - Sex Drive feat. DJ Andy [Grid Recordings UK] 35. Qumulus - Sunset Soul [Lunar Records] 36. Seba - True feat. Emily Harkness [Spearhead Records] 37. Serge Gee - Don't Stop The Strings [LowFreqMX] 38. Twintone feat. Anastasia - What Lies Ahead [LW Recordings] 39. InnVoice - Shape The Future [Dream Killer Recordings] 40. Dimension - Remedy (feat. TS Graye) [Dimension]

This episode is the second dive into life and times of Saigo Takamori. We look at how Takamori went from being the Emperor's greatest ally to enforcing laws that he himself once fought against.   For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode!   You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app. Sources: Japan Info Encyclopedia Britannica Nippon.com National Geographic Samurai Wiki Wikipedia

This episode is the first of two looking at the life and times of Saigo Takamori, otherwise known as the Last Samurai (not Tom Cruise), and an enormous influence on Japan in the 19 and 20th Centuries.   For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app. Sources: Japan Info  Encyclopedia Britannica  Nippon.com  National Geographic  Samurai Wiki Wikipedia 

This week we're discussing the second half of The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori by Mark Ravina. This is a biography of Saigo Takamori, who we met briefly in Beasly's Meiji Restoration. Saigo is a legendary figure in modern Japanese history and was an early proponent of imperial as opposed to shogunate rule in Japan. However, as the Meiji Restoration's direction pointed towards modernization of Japan rather than preservation of it's traditions, Saigo became the last rebel of a dying world. The second half takes us through Saigo's ascendancy in domestic politics, the establishment of the Meiji government and to his rebellion against and death by the very state he helped to found. Saigo is a contradictory figure of principle and practicality - supporting the needs of a modern state that will maintain virtue and compete with the West while liquidating the traditional hierarchies of Japan. By the time Saigo realized that the needs of modernization won out on the ideals of samurai virtue, it was too late. Mark Ravina is a professor of history at Emory College who specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese history. He has written many articles for various journals as well as another book on modern Japan Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan. Ravina is currently working on a history of the Meiji Restoration called Japan's Nineteenth Century Revolution: A Transnational History of the Meiji Restoration. Next week we're reading the first half of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail of '72. You can call and leave voicemails on our Book Nerds Hotline and we'll play them on the show: 1-978-255-3404 Follow us on Instagram @literalfictionbookclub

This week we're discussing the first half of The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori by Mark Ravina. This is a biography of Saigo Takamori, who we met briefly in Beasly's Meiji Restoration. Saigo is a legendary figure in modern Japanese history and was an early proponent of imperial as opposed to shogunate rule in Japan. However, as the Meiji Restoration's direction pointed towards modernization of Japan rather than preservation of it's traditions, Saigo became the last rebel of a dying world. The first half takes us through Saigo's early life, his unlikely rise in Japanese politics, and the ideological developments he undertakes as the battle for the future of Japan unfolds - most notably Mito Learning or the restoration of imperial authority through the Mito dynastic lineage. Saigo is a charming and dynamic character, both in the life events he experienced - from Commadore Perry's arrival to being exiled multiple times to distant southern islands - and the legends that would eventually be made of his life. Mark Ravina is a professor of history at Emory College who specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese history. He has written many articles for various journals as well as another book on modern Japan Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan. Ravina is currently working on a history of the Meiji Restoration called Japan's Nineteenth Century Revolution: A Transnational History of the Meiji Restoration. Next week we're reading the second half of this book (The Last Samurai by Mark Ravina) You can call and leave voicemails on our Book Nerds Hotline and we'll play them on the show: 1-978-255-3404 Follow us on Instagram @literalfictionbookclub

It finally happened, crack open the champagne, set off the fireworks, Jeff and Aaron have a guest! Meet Matt Edlin, Jeff's shin'yū (best friend). Matt lived in Japan for nearly 3 years, and now he's back, just for this podcast. Topics include: Politics! The latest Democratic Presidential debate - and all the absurdity thereof Japan, our dream destination Bonus points, what does this episode title mean? ...close enough!