This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: Japan joins the ranks of the great powers by building its…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: “closed country” isn’t quite the full story. How did Japan maintain…
This week, we’re wrapping up our history of the colonization of Hokkaido with a look at the impact of the…
This week, we’re talking about Hokkaido in the early 20th century, and in particular the stark problems created by the…
This week, we’re looking at the early decades of Japan’s colonization of Hokkaido, and the means by which the island…
This week: how did the threat of Western imperialism change the relationship between mainland Japan and Hokkaido, and help set…
This week, we’re starting a multi-part series on the history of one of Japan’s major islands, and its first colonial…