Episode 287 - Dark Side of the Rising Sun: Magicians of the Samurai w. Antony Cummins

August 15 marks the day when Japan remembers the end of WWII.
Although most of us remember only carefully selected historical
points of this period, like Hitler burning books and Hiroshima
being the site of an atomic explosion, there’s always more to the
story. The occupying Allied forces in Japan also burned books and
engaged in harsh censorship. This continues today, where the
history not only of WWII has been obscured, but of the Japanese
Samurai, along with the Jomon culture which provides us with some
of the oldest artifacts in the world – making this a matter of
human history. Furthermore, Japan itself is a magical repository on
the level of Egypt and yet gets left in a very obscure past or a
superficial present. Tonight on Ground Zero, Ryan Gable talks with
Antony Cummins about DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN – MAGICIANS OF THE
SAMURAI.

Originally Broadcast On 8/16/2023