This week, we’re talking about the birth of the idol industry in Japan. What are idols, how are they made…
Get your flags and your bibles, we’re hunting Communists. The Red Menace could be lurking anywhere: in your unions, in your movies, maybe even in the very halls of Congress.
This week, we’re taking a look at one of the greatest scandals in the history of Japanese baseball, when the…
This week, we’re exploring the history of Japan’s most famous drink: sake, or Japanese rice wine (though it turns out,…
Take a tour around the swamp with America’s favorite rascal. Florida Man’s always making headlines for punching alligators, stealing meat, and fighting cops in the buff. But does Florida really deserve its reputation as the weirdest state in the union? And is our nation’s most beloved rapscallion the villain of our story, or is he the victim of a legal system that accidentally created a media monster?
This week, we’re wrapping up our history of the colonization of Hokkaido with a look at the impact of the…
This week, we’re talking about Hokkaido in the early 20th century, and in particular the stark problems created by the…
Meet the man who used his artistic talents to resist Nazi occupation, then planned an elaborate scheme to destroy a public records building by posing as a German official. In the occupied Netherlands, a group of artists fought the law with typography and tailoring. Why did Willem Arondeus go from a little-known WII resistance fighter to a hit with Tumblr teens, and what can his story teach us about resisting fascism today?
This week, we’re looking at the early decades of Japan’s colonization of Hokkaido, and the means by which the island…
This week: how did the threat of Western imperialism change the relationship between mainland Japan and Hokkaido, and help set…