This week: Japan’s empire in Micronesia comes apart under the face of both the miscalculations of military leadership and the…
So far, we’ve talked about how Micronesia came under Japanese rule, but what was Japan’s rule over the region like?…
When World War I began, many among the Japanese leadership were hesistant to take advantage of the opportunity to move…
Japan would seize control of German Micronesia in the fall of 1914, but Japanese interest in the region goes back…
This week: the bizarre story of an attempted coup in Korea that, along the way, touches on everything from Japanese…
If the first translation of a text on smallpox vaccination in Japan was finished in 1820, how did it take…
This week: the elimination of smallpox is probably one of the greatest medical accomplishments in human history. The vaccine that…
This week, we’re looking at the implosion of the Japanese New Left with a focus on the factional conflicts of…
This week, we’re looking at a very different kind of 60s protest movement: an attempt to build a cross-sectarian, non-ideological…
This week, for the final episode of 2022: the Zenkyoto movement arrives at Japan’s largest private school. Plus: how did…