A negotiation over fishing rights took an unexpected turn when a Lithuanian fisherman jumped onto an American Coast Guard ship…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: Japan joins the ranks of the great powers by building its…
In a country where gay sex is illegal, is a magazine for gay people a publication for criminals? Is the…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the economics of Meiji Japan, and a brief foray into social…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the politics of the Meiji Period! After a coalition of samurai,…
This week: the age of feudalism comes crashing down, as in the span of just two years the Tokugawa shogunate…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the sudden assassination of the tairo Ii Naosuke sparks the rapid…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the beginning of the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. Commodore Perry’s…
If the obscene material you’re distributing is so avant-garde that most readers can’t tell it’s actually obscene, did you commit a crime or not? This week, we’re getting into the trial of the scandalous literary magazine editors who brought the work of James Joyce to America.
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: crises about during the late Edo period. A crisis of samurai…