S01E07 Birgit Tremml Werner introduces Yamada Nagamasa (1590-1630), whom some scholars
                called the "Columbus of Japan" in the 1940s-a label, she argues, which tells us as much about
                twentieth-century as seventeenth-century history. Interviewed by Joachim Kurtz and Martin Dusinberre.

S01E07 Birgit Tremml Werner introduces Yamada Nagamasa (1590-1630), whom some scholars called the "Columbus of Japan" in the 1940s-a label, she argues, which tells us as much about twentieth-century as seventeenth-century history. Interviewed by Joachim Kurtz and Martin Dusinberre.

The Columbus of Japan

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The Columbus of Japan

The Columbus of Japan