This week: we tend to think of tea in terms of the tea ceremony and fancy culture, but what about…
This week: how did a spate of right wing violence in the early years of the 1960s help to fundamentally…
This week: why did the Japanese Socialist Party and the left more generally utterly fail to capitalize on the momentum…
This week, we’re kicking off a short series on the transformations of 1960s Japan with a look at the unassuming…
This week, we’re taking a look at the life of one of Japan’s most famous artists: Miyazaki Hayao. How did…
The Jokyu Rebellion is one of the more minor conflicts in Japanese history; yet it also represents a tipping of…
This week: whaling during the modern era in Japan, and the circumstances that have led to Japan being one of…
This week, we’re taking on whaling in Tokugawa Japan. What is ‘traditional’ whaling in Japan? How and why did people…
This week: where does our stock image of the sohei come from, and why does it tell us more about…
This week: what does the historical record have to say about the veracity of the image of the warrior-monk, or…