Jack Johnson was so good at boxing that he scared an entire generation of racists. White authorities chose to make an example of him with one of America’s most infamous laws.
This week, we cover the rest of the lives of Sugen’in, Joko’in, and Yodo-dono (and some other really fascinating incidental…
This week, we’re revisiting some well-trod ground (the final decades of the 1500s and the careers of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi)…
This week, we’re starting off a month of Sengoku-themed content with a look at one of the remoter areas of…
This week, we’re talking about the birth of the idol industry in Japan. What are idols, how are they made…
Get your flags and your bibles, we’re hunting Communists. The Red Menace could be lurking anywhere: in your unions, in your movies, maybe even in the very halls of Congress.
This week, we’re taking a look at one of the greatest scandals in the history of Japanese baseball, when the…
This week, we’re exploring the history of Japan’s most famous drink: sake, or Japanese rice wine (though it turns out,…
This week, we’re wrapping up our history of the colonization of Hokkaido with a look at the impact of the…
This week, we’re talking about Hokkaido in the early 20th century, and in particular the stark problems created by the…