Medieval Japan 'Power and Perspective': Foreigners in Japan

In which John Green teaches you about Nationalism. Nationalism was everywhere in the 19th century, as people all over the world carved new nation-states out of old empires. Nationalist leaders changed the way people thought of themselves and the places they lived by reinventing education, military service, and the relationship between government and governed. In Japan, the traditional feudal society underwent a long transformation over the course of about 300 years to become a modern nation-state. John follows the course of Japanese history from the emergence of the Tokugawa Shogunate to the Meiji Restoration, and covers Nationalism in many other countries along the way. All this, plus a special guest appearance, plus the return of an old friend on a extra-special episode of Crash Course.

Arrival of Portuguese Ships to Japan 

Foreign Relations in Early Modern Japan: Exploding the Myth of National Seclusion

The overthrow of the Shogun

ABC Splash Tokugawa Shogunate is overthrown

ABC Splash- The end of Japan's isolation 

The Japanese encounter the West

China and Japan’s Responses to the West in the 19th Century