Season 10, Episode 0: Prelude to the Victory (Patreon)

Here we go again!

This week we're laying down the groundwork in our Prelude to Victory. We chat a bit about the nature of the project and what we're expecting/hoping/dreading from this season and Nina activates her time machine to remind us all what was going on in the world in the lead-up to Victory!

Show Notes: World Events Overview, March 16, 1991 - April 2, 1993

• I leaned heavily on Wikipedia this week, starting with their world-event chronologies for individual years: 1991, 1992, 1993, and their Japan-specific counterparts: 1991, 1992, 1993.
• Pages on the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and on the Yugoslav Wars (which I quoted directly). 
• Articles about the May 1991 Struggle in South Korea:
  Needels, Allison. “A Korean Tragedy Untold: The May 1991 Struggle.” Pinpoint Korea, 28 Nov. 2021, www.pinpointkorea.com/may-1991-struggle/.
  “Student Sets Self on Fire in South Korean Protests.” Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 1991. From Associated Press. Accessed 12 Jan 2024. Archived at https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-30-mn-980-story.html.
• The 1992 LA Riots.
• About Sinéad O'Connor's controversial protest on Saturday Night Live.
• Article about the increased public access to copies of the Dead Sea Scrolls (quoted in the history overview):
  Chandler, Russel. "Library Lifts Veil on Dead Sea Scrolls : Antiquities: The Huntington breaks four decades of secrecy surrounding biblical texts." Los Angeles Times, 22 Sept 1991. Accessed 11 Jan 2024. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-22-mn-4145-story.html. 
• General info about the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 
• A bare-bones profile of Iwasaki Kyoko (岩崎 恭子), and an article about the youngest swimming gold-medalists in Olympic history:
  Sutherland, James. "The Youngest Olympic Champions in Swimming History." SwimSwam, 9 May 2023. Accessed 11 Jan 2024. Accessed at https://swimswam.com/the-youngest-olympic-champions-in-swimming-history/.
• Profiles of Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi (宮澤 喜一), founder of the Honda Motor Co. Honda Soichiro (本田 宗一郎), filmmaker Honda Ishiro (本多 猪四郎), and voice-actor Kanemoto Shingo (兼本 新吾).
• Wikipedia pages for the Ranma 1/2 anime, and the films Only Yesterday (1991) and Porco Rosso (1992). 
• Japanese box-office information for 1991 (in Japanese).
  

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