Episode 513 - The Specter of the Continent

History of Japan - A podcast by Isaac Meyer - Fridays

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This week: why did the Mongols invade Japan? How did a seemingly invincible military machine falter in its assaults on the island of Kyushu? And why, in the long term, did the Mongol invasions begin the process of bringing down the Kamakura shogunate? Show notes here.