With Nobunaga dead, we turn our attention to one of his generals: Hashiba Hideyoshi, who would take up leadership of…
Is abortion legal in Japan? No, but also yes. Join us on a journey through history to learn about how modern abortion law developed in a legal system that didn’t treat fetuses as legal persons but did want to count them as future taxpayers.
This week on the Revised Intro to Japanese History: the beginning of the end of the age of war and…
This week on the Revised Intro to Japanese History: the social, religious, and economic changes of the Sengoku period. Though…
This week, we look at the flip side of the chaos of the Sengoku era in the form of two…
Under Britain’s most notorious era of criminal law, you could be sentenced to death for everything from destroying a fishpond…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: our first foray into the age of civil war! We’re looking…
This week: the Muromachi bakufu comes crashing down, thanks to a combination of structural weaknesses and a shogun who is…
The law was out to take Emma Goldman down on a range of charges from distributing obscene material to assassination…
This week: Go-Daigo’s regime collapses, and a second samurai government, the Muromachi bakufu, emerges. How did Ashikaga Takauji successfully establish…