This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 3 “Inside the Capsule” (カプセルの中), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on shihei (私兵) and private armies, the British East India Company, and Japanese composer Shigeaki Saegusa (三枝 成彰, formerly 三枝 成章).

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- Jisho.org page for 私兵 (shihei).

- Japanese Wikipedia page for 民兵 (minpei), usually translated as "militia" but actually broader than the English sense of that word. Includes shihei and 軍閥 (gunbatsu).

- The early history of the British East India Company (BEIC) (brief).

- Wikipedia page on the BEIC.

- Wikipedia page on the BEIC's rule in India.

- Wikipedia page on the BEIC's private army.

*- Wikipedia page on the 1857 rebellion.

*- Wikipedia page on Sepoys.

- Articles regarding the BEIC's private army:

Irfan Habib, The Coming of 1857, Social Scientist, Vol. 26, No. 1/4 (Jan. - Apr., 1998), pp. 6-15, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3517577

"Origins of the British East India Company Army" by Hamid Hussain

Gilbert, A. (1975). Recruitment and Reform in the East India Company Army, 1760-1800. Journal of British Studies, 15(1), 89-111.

Innes, Percival Robert. The history of the Bengal European regiment : now the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and how it helped to win India (London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1885)

Kiernan, V.G., Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960 (McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1998)

- A breakdown of the regiments in each of the Presidency Armies.

- Japanese Wikipedia page for composer Shigeaki Saegusa (三枝 成彰, formerly 三枝 成章).

- Shigeaki Saegusa’s webpage (Japanese).

- Business information for May Corporation.

- Japanese TV site “Bangumi” page for Shigeaki Saegusa.

- Japanese Wikipedia page for TV program NHK Nodo Jiman.

- Blog post discussing Shigeaki Saegusa’s involvement with the Gundam franchise.

- The 2006 Asahi Shinbun article I discuss, with Mariko Hayashi (novelist) interviewing Shigeaki Saegusa.

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