This week, we start off our first ever twinned biography with a look at the early career of one of…
This week, we’re talking about my absolute favorite poet in the history of forever: Kobayashi Issa. I promise he’s great,…
This week: what happens once the scandal goes public, and what does all this say about postwar Japan more generally?…
This week, we take a look at one of postwar Japan’s most famous political scandals, and how the efforts of…
This week, tensions within Japanese society explode as a simple stock purchase turns into a knock-down, drag out fight over…
This week, we tackle a political scandal from 1930s Japan to dig deeper into the question: just why did Japan’s…
This week, we’re discussing the autobiography of a troublemaking, low-ranking samurai whose life didn’t reshape Japan, but whose tale can…
This week, we cover one of Japan’s great unsolved crimes: the 300 million yen robbery. How did one man steal…
This week, take a deep dive with me into the life of one of the regents of the Heian Era,…
As the 1950s become the 1960s, the truth of Chisso’s failure to address its problems comes out thanks to a…