This week, we explore the career of the first woman to make a big splash in modern Japanese literature: Higuchi…
This week, it’s time to talk backroom deals and business trickery, because we’re chronicling the rise of Mitsubishi and the…
This week, we trace the evolution of Noh theater over the course of the careers of its famous founders: the…
Since Japan just got itself a new emperor, this is a good time to go back and look at an…
This week, we’re going to zoom in on the kind of life that doesn’t usually make the big picture history…
This week, we look at the violent incidents that eventually undermined the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement, and the legacies…
How do you talk about a movement without clear leaders? By breaking down its different levels. Plus, a look at…
This week, we’re starting a look at the Jiyu Minken Undo — the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement — by…
This week: the battle against the construction of a new international airport in Chiba prefecture. Who fought against the airport,…
This week, the crew of the Breskens is freed at last. Plus some final thoughts on Tokugawa diplomacy. Sources Hesselink,…