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 traveling the breadth of Japanese history to answer a seemingly simple question: why is it that so…
This week, we’re covering the transformation of the collapsed LTCB into the revived Shinsei (“New Life”) Bank, and the motley…
This week: a combination of political scandals, tabloid journalism, institutional inertia, and of course the goddamn Swiss lead to the…
This week, we’re returning to the era of the bubble economy and its aftermath with an up close look at…
This week, we’re wrapping up our month on piracy by looking at how the image of “Japanese pirates” became so…
This week, we’re talking about how Hideyoshi finally tamed Japan’s pirates, and why that makes them so hard to understand…
This week, we’re focusing on the height of piracy during the civil wars in Japan, and in particular the powerful…
This week we’re going deep into the bizarre theories of Japanese Israelism: the conspiracy theory that modern Japanese people are…
We’re trapped in a loop this week as Isaac talks about another Isaac: specifically, Isaac Titsingh, a member of the…