This week: just what sort of scandal sent Nakanoin Nakako to the far end of Japan, and how did fate…
This week on the podcast, we’re exploring the life of a woman whose story would normally be confined to the…
The interrogation records of three criminals tell part of the story of a secret religious movement that tried to topple…
This week on the podcast, we’re talking the tale of the iconoclastic monk Ikkyu Sojun. His fame is predicated on…
How can a man who was terrible as a ruler also be one of the most important tastemakers in Japanese…
In a follow-up to our episode about one very slick criminal, we’re taking listeners through a tour of Denver’s seedy…
Today, we’re looking at a rather unusual scandal from early 20th century Japan, and what it shows us about the…
This week, we’re taking some material from the cutting room floor of last series to talk about the stories of…
What happens when you put a bunch of philosophers in charge of investigating crimes? You end up with one of the most organized and longest-lasting criminal codes in human history. We’re going back to Imperial China to examine the case of a deadly dispute over a handful of beans.
Our final episode of this miniseries will detail the early decades of the Christian persecutions in Nagasaki. Once the religion…