Over at the Subject to Change podcast, I discuss the history of Japan in the late nineteenth century in the first of three episodes based on my book, Japan at War in the Pacific. Includes China and Japan compared to two tramps fighting over a cardboard box in a skip; the false imperial proclamations of the Meiji Restoration; the sing-along revolution, and the scandalous story of the murder of the Empress Myeongseong, so-called vampire queen of Korea.