Dr. Ricky W. Law is a historian of interwar Germany, Japan, and transnational movements. His new book, Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936, explores the cultural context of Tokyo and Berlin’s political rapprochement in 1936. Law shares his fascinating story on this episode of the Hour of History podcast explaining how he mastered German, taught in Japan and learned Japanese and combined the two skills to write history. He has shared his knowledge with students in courses that he created, with themes on genocide and weapons of mass destruction, nation-states in film, and democracy. He plans to develop other courses on German, Japanese, and Roman histories. He is currently working on a book manuscript on interwar and wartime Japanese foreign relations through the lens of foreign language acquisition. You can follow him on twitter here: @rickywlaw Read his book: From the Publisher: In 1936, Nazi Germany and militarist Japan built a partn...