{"podcast":{"title":"History of Japan","slug":"history-of-japan-1062379","podcast_index_feed_id":1062379,"rss_url":"https://historyofjapan.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://historyofjapan.libsyn.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/9/8/1/3981da3b9bd48926/10901442_923654577645646_1675601057_o.jpg","author":"Isaac Meyer","episode_count":641,"summary":"This podcast, assembled by a former PhD student in History at the University of Washington, covers the entire span of Japanese history. Each week we'll tackle a new topic, ranging from prehistoric Japan to the modern day.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-05T22:20:41.658848+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-japan-1062379"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 619 - The Manga Revolution, Part 1","slug":"episode-619-the-manga-revolution-part-1","published_at":"2026-03-13T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-japan-1062379/episode-619-the-manga-revolution-part-1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-japan-1062379","url":"https://historyofjapan.libsyn.com/episode-619-the-manga-revolution-part-1","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/historyofjapan/Episode_619_mixdown.mp3?dest-id=135800","summary":"This week: manga is today one of the most ubiquitous forms of entertainment in Japan. But the idea of comics as we might understand them has a much longer history. So how did we get from there to here--what, in other words, is the origin of Japanese manga/ We'll look today at the earliest known examples as we try to understand the origins of manga as a form. Show notes here .","meta_description":"This week: manga is today one of the most ubiquitous forms of entertainment in Japan. But the idea of comics as we might understand them has a much longer…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2034,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/history-of-japan-1062379/episodes/episode-619-the-manga-revolution-part-1/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-japan-1062379/episode-619-the-manga-revolution-part-1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}