Hello all! We’re coming up on the end of the outline episodes (the last one will be out on Sunday),…
This week, we’ll be talking about the height of postwar Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. On the surface, it’s…
This week, we’re going to discuss the postwar strategy that enabled Japan to revive itself after World War II. In…
This week’s episode is an overview of the Allied Occupation of Japan. In just seven years (1945-1952), the Allies undertook…
This week, we’ll be discussing the life and career of Sugihara Chiune, a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
We’ve arrived, finally, at the Pacific War — this week, we’ll be charting the course Japan took to war, briefly…
This week, we’ll be discussing domestic developments in Japan, and the path by which a reasonably (if not totally) liberal…
Resuming our regularly scheduled programming, we will be turning this week to Japanese foreign policy from 1895 to 1940. There’s…
This week, we have our very first thematic podcast. It’s a great story of victory and defeat, racism and acceptance,…
So, for those of you who aren’t caught up yet — I’m in Japan doing some summer work for the…