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 starting off a look at the history of rail in Japan by exploring how this revolutionary technology…
This week, we’re looking at the early decades of Japan’s colonization of Hokkaido, and the means by which the island…
This week: how did the threat of Western imperialism change the relationship between mainland Japan and Hokkaido, and help set…
This week, we’re going to talk about the heyday of Japanese Christianity during the Imperial era: the 1870s and 1880s,…
This week, we’re talking about Christianity during the Bakumatsu Period — the era that saw the forced opening of Japan…
This week, we look at Japan’s relationship with blackness and black communities in the wake of the Meiji Restoration, and…
This week, we explore the career of the first woman to make a big splash in modern Japanese literature: Higuchi…
This week, it’s time to talk backroom deals and business trickery, because we’re chronicling the rise of Mitsubishi and the…
This week, we look at the violent incidents that eventually undermined the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement, and the legacies…