Japan Forum caught up with Oleg Benesch to talk about his new book Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace, co-authored with Ran Zwigenberg.

In the podcast Dr Benesch talks about what motivated them to write a book about castles that is not military history; writing a book with another author who lives in another part of the world; the meaning of modernity; the ambiguous relationship between history and heritage; and why issues of "space" matter in history.

The podcast can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/soas-university-of-london/sets/japan-forum

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Bill Mihalopoulos
Chief Editor