Thomas Lockley is Associate Professor at Nihon University College of Law in Tokyo, where he teaches courses about the international and multicultural history of Japan and East Asia.
We talk about the REAL HISTORY behind the "Shogun" TV show, but also about feudal Japan, the Samurai, the arrival of Europeans... as well as Prof. Lockley's latest book "A Gentleman from Japan."

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:39 Civil War period in Feudal Japan
11:42 Misconceptions about the Samurai
15:52 Life of peasants in Feudal Japan
22:14 Jesuits and the slave trade
24:41 Arrival of Europeans
32:50 William Adams - the real John Blackthorne
43:11 Tokugawa Ieyasu
50:02 Shogun the TV Show
54:31 A Gentleman from Japan
01:02:53 What do the Japanese think of Samurai?