This week, we’re beginning a four-part retrospective on the rise and fall of Japan’s most successful postwar opposition party: The…
This week, we’re talking about one of the last attempts to save the Tokugawa shogunate: the Tenpo Reforms of the…
This week, we’re taking a closer look at the unequal treaty system of the 1800s by exploring one of its…
This week, we’re discussing Japan’s reckoning with its wartime past through the lens of the nation’s self-appointed conscience: the historian…
This week, we’re covering the bizarre history of a hijacking attempt from 1970. What led nine young men to seize…
This week, we’re tackling the history of kamishibai, a form of street theater that was once big business but has…
Thank you all to every single one of you who has ever listened to this podcast. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/historyofjapan/Episode_400_mixdown.mp3 Sources Some general…
This week: how did three soldiers who managed to do something rather unexceptional–dying in Japan’s battles in China–manage to become…
This week, we’re talking about a pair of anchors in a Chinese museum and the tortured path they took to…
This week, we’re traveling the breadth of Japanese history to answer a seemingly simple question: why is it that so…