EPISODE · Apr 28, 2026 · 54 MIN
The High Cost of Japan’s Peace
from From Edo to the World · host Makati Archives
Two centuries of peace had a price. This episode looks at the cracks forming beneath the surface of Tokugawa Japan — samurai drowning in debt while merchants grew rich, famines that killed hundreds of thousands, over seven thousand recorded uprisings, and a shogunate that kept trying to fix the future by legislating the past.
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