Barakan Discovers

S1 E132019

HAGI: Yoshida Shoin's Immortal Words

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Yoshida Shoin was an educator whose students played key roles in Japan's modernization. He died at 29, but his ideals still live on 160 years later. Peter Barakan visits Shoin's hometown of Hagi.

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