This week, Saigo Takamori is going to sidetrack the whole government by pulling the idea of invading Korea off the…
This week, we cover the major issues of the new government. Who’s in charge? What do they want to do?…
This week, we take a look at the new balance of power now that the Tokugawa are gone. Who’s…
This week: the “short-lived” part of “the short-lived Ezo Republic” comes to fruition, and what is now Meiji Japan begins…
This week, we’ll cover the military campaigns of 1868. Edo will (surprisingly anticlimactically) fall, the north will rebel, and Matsudaira…
In early 1868, the armies of the loyalists and the Tokugawa bakufu will clash outside Kyoto. We’ll discuss the…
This week, we cover 1867: the final year of the Tokugawa shogunate (sort of). Caught between a loyalist rock…
Choshu vs the Tokugawa, round 2! Only two years after being defeated by the Tokugawa, Choshu is back at war…
Not even a dead motherboard can stop me; 1865 is just too important for us to talk about! This week:…
1864 is probably the most important year in the Meiji Restoration that nobody really has heard of; the Tokugawa will…