(Friday Night History) #143 (S5E6)- The Thick of Things

-an imperial decree, February 3, 1868 One: Neutrality Even the Kyoto government understood the gravity of the situation. It was certainly full of people who’d cut their teeth as little more than terrorists in the sonnō-jōi movement of the 1860s, which sought the violent expulsion of all foreigners from Japan. But it had just gotten … Continue reading (Friday Night History) #143 (S5E6)- The Thick…