This week, we’re discussing the autobiography of a troublemaking, low-ranking samurai whose life didn’t reshape Japan, but whose tale can…
This week, we cover one of Japan’s great unsolved crimes: the 300 million yen robbery. How did one man steal…
This week, take a deep dive with me into the life of one of the regents of the Heian Era,…
As the 1950s become the 1960s, the truth of Chisso’s failure to address its problems comes out thanks to a…
This week, we’re beginning a deep dive into the history of one of the most famous cases of environmental poisoning…
This week, we’re talking about one of the greatest cheesy samurai film franchises of all time. Just how did a…
This week, we explore the career of the first woman to make a big splash in modern Japanese literature: Higuchi…
This week, it’s time to talk backroom deals and business trickery, because we’re chronicling the rise of Mitsubishi and the…
This week, we trace the evolution of Noh theater over the course of the careers of its famous founders: the…
Since Japan just got itself a new emperor, this is a good time to go back and look at an…