This week: Isaac spends 30 minutes unpacking the 400+ page ramblings of a cranky retiree who died about 200 years…
How did it all go so very wrong? Sources Funabayashi, Yoichi, and Koichi Nakano, eds. The Democratic Party of Japan…
In just three years, Ozawa Ichiro managed to guide the DPJ from defeat to one of the most smashing victories…
This week, the DPJ’s good fortune–in the form of the hilariously politically inept Prime Minister Mori Yoshihiro–turns to disaster, as…
This week, we’re beginning a four-part retrospective on the rise and fall of Japan’s most successful postwar opposition party: The…
This week, we’re talking about one of the last attempts to save the Tokugawa shogunate: the Tenpo Reforms of the…
This week, we’re taking a closer look at the unequal treaty system of the 1800s by exploring one of its…
This week, we’re discussing Japan’s reckoning with its wartime past through the lens of the nation’s self-appointed conscience: the historian…
This week, we’re covering the bizarre history of a hijacking attempt from 1970. What led nine young men to seize…
This week, we’re tackling the history of kamishibai, a form of street theater that was once big business but has…