For our first two-part episode, we’re going to discuss the Ikkō Ikki, a militant insurrection of believers in the faith…
For our first listener-submitted topic, we’re tackling Bushido: the warrior code of the samurai class. We’ll discuss the evolution of…
For our final outline episode, we’ll be tackling the origins and effects of the real-estate bubble which devastated the Japanese…
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…