This week, we discuss the course of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials and their legacy in Japan. How did they…
This week, we’ll begin a discussion of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, better known as the Tokyo…
This week: where did Japan’s constitution come from, and how the hell did it get done in only six days?…
The Occupation begins! This week, we’ll set the stage with a focus on the relationship between Supreme Commander Douglass MacArthur…
This week, we turn our attention to the US Occupation of Japan. When did Americans first start thinking seriously about…
This week, we’re doing a biography of the little known Buddhist socialist Seno’o Giro. How do you reconcile Buddhism and…
This week, we round out our look at the hard left in Japan. Militant communist uprisings (if less than 100…
This week, we’ll see how the advent of the Liberal Democratic Party kept Japan’s socialist and communist parties from real…
This week, the floodgates are open! The system has fallen, and the left is poised to seize power…or not! Listen…
Today, a specter is haunting Japan. But that specter is not communism; it’s the ghost of the communist party, dead…