This week: Miyazaki Manabu completes his transformation from son of a yakuza boss to a committed member of the Communist…
This week: the start of a multi-part “modernized biography” intended to help us explore postwar Japan through the lens of…
This week: what do we know about women and the wrong end of the law during the Tokugawa Period? Given…
This week: outside of big urban riots, how did violence figure into the daily life of the Edo period? To…
This week, we cover the second and third of Edo’s three great riots in 1787 and 1866. How did samurai…
This week: the first of three episodes on urban rioting in Tokugawa period Japan. This week, we’re covering the first…
In the final episode of this series: how did “otaku culture” spread overseas when it was so stigmatized at home,…
For our first episode of 2025: “otaku culture” as a phenomenon began to emerge, in part, as a reaction against…
Our last episode of 2024 is also the first episode in a series on one of Japan’s most distinctive cultural…
This week, the story of an Edo period writer whose primary claim to fame was producing decent ripoffs of people…