This week, we’ll begin a two-part series on the relationship between Japan and what is now her southernmost province: Okinawa.…
This week, we’re going to discuss the topic of swordsmanship and kendo in modern Japan. We’ll talk about where modern…
This week, we’re going to take a look at the man credited with one of the greatest epochal changes in…
This week we’ll be tackling our first media review and discussing by far the most influential piece of historical fiction…
This week we have the second and final part of our series on Saigo Takamori, covering his rebellion against the…
This week, we’ll begin another two-parter dealing with the life and death of Saigo Takamori, one of the great leaders…
This week, we’re discussing Onmyodo, the mystical study of divination based off of the theories of yin and yang (in-yo…
This week, we’re going to talk about the evolution of manga. We’ll discuss the roots of the comic form in…
This week we will be discussing the great political wheeler and dealer of modern Japanese politics: Tanaka Kakuei. We will…
We’ll be wrapping up our discussion of the Ikkō Ikki this week, as the unstoppable force of the militant wing…