When did we lose the right to cross the street wherever and whenever we wanted?
This week, we’re wrapping up our look at Sakamoto Ryoma’s life and legacy to see how he was transformed from…
One of the most important trials in recorded history might not have happened.
This week: Sakamoto Ryoma commits fully to the loyalist cause, but ends up on a turbulent journey that will take…
This week, we return to the turbulent age of the Bakumatsu–the collapse of the Tokugawa state–with a biography of one…
This week: just what sort of scandal sent Nakanoin Nakako to the far end of Japan, and how did fate…
This week on the podcast, we’re exploring the life of a woman whose story would normally be confined to the…
The interrogation records of three criminals tell part of the story of a secret religious movement that tried to topple…
This week on the podcast, we’re talking the tale of the iconoclastic monk Ikkyu Sojun. His fame is predicated on…
How can a man who was terrible as a ruler also be one of the most important tastemakers in Japanese…