Joe and Jack take a look at the authenticity of Shogun 2 v. the accuracy of the game, as well as looking at a few pieces of media that influenced Shogun 2 or were influenced by it.

Here are the folks and references we mentioned in the show (please let us know if you want us to drop your @'s below):

Kevin Fox: @michigrimk on twitter, https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/world/cia-spent-millions-to-support-japanese-right-in-50-s-and-60-s.html

Germaine's board games: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/287515/chinas-war-1937-41 https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38827/battle-china-1937-second-edition https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/187009/shanghai-incident-1932 https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7267/warlords-china-disarray-1916-1950 https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/281457/manchukuo

Dr. Nyri Bakkalian in her appearance on Lions Led by Donkeys, the episode in question can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/user-798629330/episode-109-shogun-2-the-last-samurai-and-western-misconceptions-of-japanese-history-ft-dr-nyri-bakkalian

Dr. Bret Devereaux

Special thanks, as always, for our theme: Smooth Lovin by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4379-smooth-lovin License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/