JAPAN with Patrick Kelly from @GhostCountries

Japan is a wonderful country! But it's also more geographically complex than most people might think. For example, while most people know it's an island country, it actually consists of thousands of islands! In this week's podcast episode, I'm joined by Patrick Kelly from the YouTube channel: Ghost Countries! As usual, together we explore the geography and history of the country and Patrick offers up some key insights on where you should visit if you ever decide to visit the land of the Rising Sun.

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[GhostCountries]

Thank you so much for having me on the podcast Geoff - it was a fun time!

[producedbypodcast]

Podcast with people behind geography YouTube channel was an amazing idea!

[johntrotter]

My first foreign work assignment was to Kyushu, 50+ years ago. Rode the bullet train in its first week from Hokkaido to Tokyo. Thanks for the reminders!

[leedean]

Good show, Geoff. very interesting and informative.

[yao]

Very interesting!
You and Patrick did great work!!

[kirbyward]

Very nice interview, Geoff
Interesting topic

[tinavalentino]

So happy for Patrick 👏👏👏 Ghost Countries is so great 🌎🌎🌎

[steveschlackman]

Iwo Jima is also part of Japan. I don't think that anyone lives there (?). Iwo certainly has history.

[aminsyed]

Very nice and informative conversation.

[willujames]

Going to Japan for 6th time since 2019 and 4th since 2022 November. This time to Hiroshima and Hokkaido! This is an informative video!

[sebbvell]

You should show maps in order to guide us

[Joe-mpsd]

Tokugawa shogun’s policy to limit the access to the outside world, to Dutch and vice vasa, came from a hard lessen the Japanese had learned that Portugal Jesuits missionaries were baptizing some Japanese to Christianity and had them attacked the other Japanese villages and burned the Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines and hunt the other Japanese for Jesuits to enslave and sold those Japanese as slaves in South East Asia. Jesuits were known for slave trade in Asia and in North America and anywhere in the world. Tokugawa Shogun’s policy was not an isolation policy because it continued to trade with Dutch and the other Asian countries while it protected the Japanese people from evil Jesuits missionaries and from the other Christian missionaries as well. Dutch replaced the Japan’s trading partner position that the evil Portugal Jesuits had because the Dutch was the one who provided the world news to the Japanese such as the news that evil Portugal Jesuits were selling Japanese as slaves. There was never a word “Sakoku” in Edo era and “Sakoku” was a word made up by the socialist revisionist historians to label the Tokugawa shogun’s policy as isolationist policy to fit the narratives that Japan as closed and depressed nations was now opened and liberated. There have always been revisionists all over the world who are constantly pushing propaganda by using history.





Unit 731 was like the US’s CDC and the US took some of the data.

[deezee]

Geof, you like hearing yourelf. Let your guest talk.

[sebbvell]

Hideki Tojo and Hirohito should be considered as infamous figures too

[CHunt-czek]

Re the widespread ignorance of geography, are you really surprised? Median IQ is 100...