Japan and the North Pacific Crossing - Lakeside Institute of Theology

The Windstar Talks – Japan and the North Pacific Crossing

These lectures were given by Ross Arnold in Spring 2018 on Windstar Cruise’s yacht, the Star Legend, as we made port in Japan and then sailed to Alaska.

The Windstar Talks – Japan and the North Pacific Crossing

Emperors and Shoguns: A Brief History of Japan

Samurai and the Code of Bushido

Religions of Japan

Japan vs. China

The Pacific War

Birth of the Atomic Age: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Japanese Art and Architecture

A Brief History of China

China vs. China

Chinese Treasure Ships

The Great Wall of China

Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion

Silk Road Empires

A Brief History of Korea & the Korean War

Eskimos and Inuit

Arctic Exploration

Iditarod: Dogs of the North

Russia in the Americas (Seward’s Folly)

The Klondike Goldrush