This week, we’re taking a quick detour into Isaac trolling fans of Michel Foucault-er, the Edo period criminal justice system.…
What do you do when your country won’t let you leave? One group of defectors from the Soviet Union hatched…
This week: Isaac spends 30 minutes unpacking the 400+ page ramblings of a cranky retiree who died about 200 years…
How did it all go so very wrong? Sources Funabayashi, Yoichi, and Koichi Nakano, eds. The Democratic Party of Japan…
A Salvation Army-inspired preacher decided to turn a small Oregon town into a new Eden. His method for achieving this:…
In just three years, Ozawa Ichiro managed to guide the DPJ from defeat to one of the most smashing victories…
This week, the DPJ’s good fortune–in the form of the hilariously politically inept Prime Minister Mori Yoshihiro–turns to disaster, as…
This week, we’re beginning a four-part retrospective on the rise and fall of Japan’s most successful postwar opposition party: The…
What if a legal trial was also a battle to the death? In this episode, we look at the strange…
This week, we’re talking about one of the last attempts to save the Tokugawa shogunate: the Tenpo Reforms of the…