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Podcast: Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters
Episode: The End... Or Is It? Is there a Shogun Multiverse Now? - Shogun Ep 10
Description: So we've come to the end of Shogun - a story that both haunted and informed us in our younger years.  Racist, Orientalist - as a book, YES! But this version. as far as I'm concerned redeems the Entire Venture. And as a 1970's work written by a former prisoner of war during the Japanese Occupation during WW2, writing a book trying to get into the somewhat legendary history of Japan - it did what James Clavell wanted, it introduced Japan as a complex society to America and Britain and it's still sprawling empire at the time. ...