This week: the social reforms of the Occupation. Economic policy, education policy: it’s like our very own C-SPAN screening! Listen…
This week, we talk about what it took to make a peace on paper a peace in fact. With millions…
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…