This week, we’re returning to the era of the bubble economy and its aftermath with an up close look at…
This week, we’re wrapping up our month on piracy by looking at how the image of “Japanese pirates” became so…
This week, we’re talking about how Hideyoshi finally tamed Japan’s pirates, and why that makes them so hard to understand…
This week, we’re focusing on the height of piracy during the civil wars in Japan, and in particular the powerful…
This week, in the first of a four part series on piracy in Japan, we’re covering the background of piracy…
This week we’re going deep into the bizarre theories of Japanese Israelism: the conspiracy theory that modern Japanese people are…
We’re trapped in a loop this week as Isaac talks about another Isaac: specifically, Isaac Titsingh, a member of the…
For our final episode in the series, we’re taking a look at the demise of public rail in Japan and…
This week, we’re talking about the rebirth of Japan’s rail network in the form of Japan National Railways. Some things…
While the United States was panicking about the secret communist conspiracy, the Soviet Union was in the middle of its own panic about a secret cabal of evil conspirators at the very heart of the communist party. Was Joseph Stalin really surrounded by secret fascists? Or did he perhaps have an ulterior motive for accusing his own party members of murder?