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?
This week, we’re talking about the role of rail in imperial Japan, with a particular focus on the infamous South…
This week, we’re starting off a look at the history of rail in Japan by exploring how this revolutionary technology…
Today, we’re taking a look at a fascinating literary text from 1000 years ago, the Kagero Nikki (most commonly translated…
This week, we’re going to stay in the Sengoku but take a step away from all this samurai action to…