The Historia Podcast #12: Dawn of the Rising Sun — The Boshin War

For over two hundred years, Japan had experienced a relative peace throughout the Edo Period under the rule of the isolationist Tokugawa Shogunate. However, the sudden arrival of the United States forced Japan into a western world that had grown around them. The turmoil created as a consequence of this caused many to look to the Emperor for leadership rather than the Shogun. Japan was on the path to civil war and the Empire of Japan was about to begin.

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