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Ep 63: Steve Kemper on Interwar Japan
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Feb 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Steve Kemper, journalist and author of Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor, joins the show to talk about the diplomatic drama and chaos in Tokyo in the years leading up to WWII and the man that tried to keep the peace; Joseph C. Grew.
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• 01:18 Introduction
• 01:50 Who was Joseph C. Grew?
• 04:36 Japanese politics in the ’30s
• 07:30 Army vs Navy
• 11:00 First impressions in Tokyo
• 17:31 Insurrection
• 22:12 Drifting towards war
• 26:08 Dynamics in D.C.
• 28:24 Appeasement
• 35:05 Japan’s plans all along
• 37:40 Embargoes, FDR, and forced hands
• 42:48 Distinct parallels
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Times
• 01:18 Introduction
• 01:50 Who was Joseph C. Grew?
• 04:36 Japanese politics in the ’30s
• 07:30 Army vs Navy
• 11:00 First impressions in Tokyo
• 17:31 Insurrection
• 22:12 Drifting towards war
• 26:08 Dynamics in D.C.
• 28:24 Appeasement
• 35:05 Japan’s plans all along
• 37:40 Embargoes, FDR, and forced hands
• 42:48 Distinct parallels
Released:
Feb 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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