This week: Japanese Manchuria comes crashing down as a combination of poorly planned colonial policies and a worsening war situation…
In the last episode of 2025: a bomb “mysteriously” goes off just outside Mukden during the evening of September 18,…
As Japan enters the 1920s, national policy becomes increasingly liberalized–but Manchuria remains a holdout of extremists who, if anything, begin…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the descent towards the Second World War. Why did the leadership…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: Japan joins the ranks of the great powers by building its…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: “closed country” isn’t quite the full story. How did Japan maintain…
This week: how did three soldiers who managed to do something rather unexceptional–dying in Japan’s battles in China–manage to become…
This week, we’re talking about a pair of anchors in a Chinese museum and the tortured path they took to…
This week, we’re talking about one of Japan’s territorial disputes: the bitter debate over ownership of the Senaku Islands/Diaoyu Islands/Pinnacle…
This week, we cover the life and legacy of one of the great bridges between Japan and China — the…