This week, we cover a famous caper that probably sent an innocent man to jail for nearly 40 years. There’s…
This week, we cover the features of modern Japanese policing, from the friendly face of the koban police boxes to…
This week: how has Japan been policed? Was there really such a thing as a samurai cop? Was their hair…
This week: was Japan’s 5th Tokugawa shogun really as crazy as everybody says? Spoilers: no. Listen to the episode here.…
This week, we cover a crime wave that shocked 1980s Japan, and proved that postwar society was perhaps not quite…
This week, we investigate the great Zen master Dogen, who was something of an eccentric in his own time but…
Turns out, getting involved in a land war in Asia really is one of the classic blunders. This week, how…
How did Japan fit into the broader framework of the Allied intervention? What were the Japanese trying to accomplish in…
100 Years ago, Japan intervened in Russia to create a buffer state against the new Soviet Union. So how did…
This week: what did it all mean? Listen to the episode here. Sources Conlan, Thomas. In Little Need of Divine Intervention.…