This week, we’ll cover the striving of Japanese Christians to be accepted as genuine patriots by the government during the…
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’re turning our attention to Christianity in Japan after the “Christian Century.” Despite its status as a minority…
This week, we cover the short yet fascinating history of Islam in Japan. What factors led to a connection between…
This week, we wrap up the series with a look at black history during the Occupation and Postwar eras, with…
This week, we turn our attention to the black experience during the war in the Pacific, and to the fascinating…
This week, we’re talking about political and cultural exchange between black communities and Japan in the 20s and 30s, as…
You’ve heard of Rosa Parks—but do you actually know the full story? This week, we dig into the brutal history of segregation in the United States, the difficult work of activism, and the way black civil rights leaders’ stories are taught as part of a whitewashed narrative that minimizes their agency and fails to engage with their actual political views.
This week, we look at Japan’s relationship with blackness and black communities in the wake of the Meiji Restoration, and…