This week: after Taiho, the floodgates open as more non-Japanese rikishi begin to enter the sport. One of them, Takamiyama,…
This week, we’re beginning a new miniseries on the legends of Japan’s most ancient sport: sumo. What can we learn…
For our final episode of this miniseries: Miyazaki Manabu faces down with the National Police Agency as he finds himself…
In our penultimate episode for this miniseries: Miyazaki Manabu narrowly escapes doing prison time, only to end up back in…
This week: Miyazaki’s time as a politics reporter, the end of his reporting career, and his return to the family…
This week: Miyazaki Manabu’s dramatic departure from the Communist Party, as his faith in the revolution wanes. What does a…
This week: Miyazaki Manabu goes from the Sodai struggle at Waseda to an active participant in the violent clashes of…
Miyazaki Manabu heads to college this week to experience the life of the late 1960s student communist organizer. What does…
This week: Miyazaki Manabu completes his transformation from son of a yakuza boss to a committed member of the Communist…
This week: what do we know about women and the wrong end of the law during the Tokugawa Period? Given…