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End of the Samurai | Japanese History

🕑 Added 2025-08-02 01:19:31 +0000 UTC

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Margaret L. Carter

I don't see any other way to contact you, so here goes: I just finished re-watching "Path to Pearl Harbor" -- fascinating to me because we lived there for over three years when my husband was a junior naval officer. We visited the Arizona Memorial when his parents came to see us; his father served in the Navy during WW II. Sorry you didn't have time to mention the Japanese-American servicemembers from Hawaii who served in the European theater, such as Senator Inouye. BTW, what do you think of the book AT DAWN WE SLEPT, which you didn't mention in the "Lies" episode? I would LOVE to see you do a series on the U.S. postwar occupation of Japan. I once read a memoir (whose title I can't recall) by an Army wife about living there during the occupation. U.S. military personnel were required to employ Japanese servants to support the economy.

SumerianCoffee

I’d like to see an episode about Christian persecution in Japan one day. Also, like him or not David Ben-Gurion was a massively impactful figure, maybe cover early Zionist figures up to him and the establishment of the State of Israel. Try your best to be impartial, there’s way too much pro-Palestine bias to the point where historians leave out key facts to vilify Israel more. For example, Armchair Historian made it seem like there were no Jews in Palestine before the settlement, when they’ve been there since Rome just in smaller numbers. Also, the local Arabs didn’t call themselves Palestinians until Arafat, and Arabs committed massacres against Jews before Israel was formed that spiraled the violence in Palestine. After Israel became a state Arabs countries across the globe expelled all their Jews.