Perry Expedition
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Perry Expedition has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Rest Is History. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Tom HollandEnglish actor cast as Telemachus
Holland recounts that the 1860 Japanese embassy found the American practice of hiring soldiers rather than being born to fight shameful.
“the US Army recruits people, so people in America are hired, not born to fight. This seems to the samurai very, very poor, very, very shameful”
The Rest Is History: 658. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (Part 1) (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 16:41
Podcasts
- The Rest Is History · 1 episode
Episodes
658. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (Part 1)The Rest Is History · Apr 5, 2026 · 1 h 3 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the origins of Japan's samurai, from the Tokugawa shogunate and the Bushido myth back to the 10th-century warlord Taira no Masakado.