This week: the first of three episodes on urban rioting in Tokugawa period Japan. This week, we’re covering the first…
This week, we’re looking at how the criminal justice system in Japan was remade to serve the interests of the…
This week, we’re taking a quick detour into Isaac trolling fans of Michel Foucault-er, the Edo period criminal justice system.…
This week, we’re talking about popular literature, with a specific focus on one of Japan’s most famous pieces of detective…
This week, we cover one of Japan’s great unsolved crimes: the 300 million yen robbery. How did one man steal…
This week, we consider a figure who appears in two stories from the ancient collection of tales known as the…
This week, we cover a famous caper that probably sent an innocent man to jail for nearly 40 years. There’s…