This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: during the 1920s, Japan’s political system became more democratic and representative–an…
A negotiation over fishing rights took an unexpected turn when a Lithuanian fisherman jumped onto an American Coast Guard ship…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: Japan joins the ranks of the great powers by building its…
In a country where gay sex is illegal, is a magazine for gay people a publication for criminals? Is the…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the economics of Meiji Japan, and a brief foray into social…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the politics of the Meiji Period! After a coalition of samurai,…
This week: the age of feudalism comes crashing down, as in the span of just two years the Tokugawa shogunate…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the sudden assassination of the tairo Ii Naosuke sparks the rapid…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the beginning of the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. Commodore Perry’s…
If the obscene material you’re distributing is so avant-garde that most readers can’t tell it’s actually obscene, did you commit a crime or not? This week, we’re getting into the trial of the scandalous literary magazine editors who brought the work of James Joyce to America.