What is feudalism? It’s a surprisingly hard question to answer, and one that raises an interesting follow up. Here on…
This week: the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front publishes its manifesto, and spreads beyond its original four members. But after…
Daidoji Masashi’s trajectory from college student to terrorist has a lot to do with the student movement and the New…
On August 30, 1974, a bomb went off at Mitsubishi corporate HQ in Tokyo’s Marunouchi neighborhood. The culprit was a…
How does a matagi hunt actually work, and how has matagi culture evolved over the course of the 20th century?…
Not many have heard of the Matagi, the hunters who live in northern Honshu. What do we know of their…
This week: the Cowra breakout seemed, to those who lived through it, like it came out of nowhere. But nothing…
At long last, the fight over how to reconstruct Tokyo is done. But what did rebuilding the imperial capital actually…
After Tokyo was burned to the ground, the battle over how to rebuild it began almost immediately. The man leading…
Why did so many greet the destruction of Tokyo not with consternation, but seeming joy? The answer has to do…