This week, we’re going to stay in the Sengoku but take a step away from all this samurai action to…
Jack Johnson was so good at boxing that he scared an entire generation of racists. White authorities chose to make an example of him with one of America’s most infamous laws.
This week, we cover the rest of the lives of Sugen’in, Joko’in, and Yodo-dono (and some other really fascinating incidental…
This week, we’re revisiting some well-trod ground (the final decades of the 1500s and the careers of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi)…
Our first episode about South America gives us a very different perspective on the American fight against Communism. Was promoting America’s interests in the Cold War really worth propping up a brutal dictatorship? And why did the international attempt to bring Pinochet to justice involve British Law Lords, a fake case of dementia, and a law that gave Spain carte blanche to prosecute all crimes against humanity… except for the ones that happened in Spain?
This week, we’re starting off a month of Sengoku-themed content with a look at one of the remoter areas of…
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,…