This week: outside of big urban riots, how did violence figure into the daily life of the Edo period? To…
This week, we cover the second and third of Edo’s three great riots in 1787 and 1866. How did samurai…
This week: the first of three episodes on urban rioting in Tokugawa period Japan. This week, we’re covering the first…
In the final episode of this series: how did “otaku culture” spread overseas when it was so stigmatized at home,…
Our last episode of 2024 is also the first episode in a series on one of Japan’s most distinctive cultural…
This week, the story of an Edo period writer whose primary claim to fame was producing decent ripoffs of people…
This week: Taiwan was the first overseas territory annexed by Japan with a large existing population. So how did the…
What even is religion, when you get down to it? Why do we treat religion the way that we do?…
This week is a continuation of our exploration of the history of reiki. How did Takata Hawayo, a poor woman…
This week: what can we learn about the past if we look not at elite literature, but at the lowbrow…