This week, we’ll be starting a short series about the advent of the samurai class. First, what came before the…
What does organized crime look like in modern Japan, and why does anybody put up with it? Also, how…
Someday, and that day may never come, I’ll call upon you to do a service for me. But until…
This week, we talk about how views of Nanjing have shifted since WWII, and where the modern right-wing revisionists…
NOTE: Though there is substantial photographic evidence of the massacre, I am not going to post it directly on the…
Today we’re going to talk about Japan’s relationship with nuclear power and the catastrophic events of March, 2011. Why…
This week, we’ll talk about the birth of the Japanese space program. From its origins as the brainchild of…
This week: conscription in Japan. What’s it like to be conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army? How are conscripts treated,…
Aaand we’re done. This week, some final thoughts on the period and its key players before we put the Meiji…
This week, we turn to the final drama of our series — the samurai rebellions that will break out in…