This week: in 1988, a Japanese company bought a paper mill in Port Angeles, WA, in a story that basically…
This week: rumors swirled around Port Angeles for decades after WWII that a Japanese man, Osasa Masaru, who had lived…
This week: what role does a sleepy town in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula play in Japan’s history? Well, more than you’d…
This week is a continuation of our exploration of the history of reiki. How did Takata Hawayo, a poor woman…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the Occupation comes to an end, but what happens next? This…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the descent towards the Second World War. Why did the leadership…
This week, we turn our attention to the black experience during the war in the Pacific, and to the fascinating…
This week, we’re talking about political and cultural exchange between black communities and Japan in the 20s and 30s, as…
This week, we look at Japan’s relationship with blackness and black communities in the wake of the Meiji Restoration, and…
We’ve arrived, finally, at the Pacific War — this week, we’ll be charting the course Japan took to war, briefly…