This week, we’re tackling the history of kamishibai, a form of street theater that was once big business but has…
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This week: how did three soldiers who managed to do something rather unexceptional–dying in Japan’s battles in China–manage to become…
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…