This week: how did Japan’s most popular god develop a following around the country, and why is that god–Inari–associated with…
This week: the Pal dissent becomes the Pal myth. How did an obscure document from the Tokyo Trials end up…
This week, we’re starting a look into how an Indian lawyer and judge from a relatively obscure background became a…
This week, we’re taking a look at the first of two Nobel laureates in literature from Japan: Kawabata Yasunari. Kawabata…
We’re wrapping up our look at the Hatoyama political dynasty with some time on Hatoyama Iichiro (arguably Japan’s most reluctant…
This week: Hatoyama Ichiro’s revenge tour culminates in finally reaching the top spot as PM and in the formation of…
Hatoyama Kazuo was a reluctant politician; you can’t say the same of his son Hatoyama Ichiro, groomed from childhood to…
This week, we’re starting a longform look at Japan’s most prominent political dynasty: the Hatoyama family, which has been a…
This week, we’re covering the art of rakugo–storytelling with a twist! How did rakugo emerge from the history of Buddhism,…
How did one man’s determination to get paid end up producing one of the best records we have of a…