Japan's history of public health, imperial rise and nationalism. And also, story of a Japanese company's commercial invasion of America.
🚩In this interview:
►What does it mean to be modern?
►Japan's 'modernization' - 1860s to 1910s.
►4 requirements for modernization of Japanese toilets
►disease prevention, e.g., cholera in Japan
►Japan - the rise of a 'clean' empire
►Is Japan's history of cleanliness true?
►Black Gold: Japan's centuries-old "night soil system"
►Gen. Douglas MacArthur's toilet
►squat vs. sit down toilets - Japan in the 1980s
►cleanliness and Japan's nationalism
🚩New York Times:
"The Rise of the Japanese Toilet"
🚩About My 184th Guest Scholars:
Dr. Kerry Shannon of California State University, Dominguez Hills, is a historian of modern East Asia, and his broader research and teaching interests include the intellectual and social history of public health. His forthcoming book, which we discuss in this interview, is tentatively titled "Going to the Bathroom for the Nation: a History of the Modern Japanese Toilet".
🚩My Recommendation:
S5E11: Japan's modern history - from pacificism to realism, story of how Japan works.
🚩Adel Aali
host & producer
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