This week, we’re covering one of the most titanic names in Japanese literature–Natsume Soseki–and the work that propelled him to…
This week: Japanese Manchuria comes crashing down as a combination of poorly planned colonial policies and a worsening war situation…
This week: some reflections on the hollow nature of Manchurian “independence”, and on what kept the state going if so…
This week on the podcast: the Japanese presence in Manchuria was never particularly large, even at its height. So how…
In the last episode of 2025: a bomb “mysteriously” goes off just outside Mukden during the evening of September 18,…
As Japan enters the 1920s, national policy becomes increasingly liberalized–but Manchuria remains a holdout of extremists who, if anything, begin…
This week: Japan’s military and civilian leaders find themselves at a crossroads in Manchuria in the 1910s, as views begin…
This week, we’re turning our attention to possibly the most unique of Japan’s colonial ventures during the imperial era: Manchuria.…
For a long time, the bureaucracy–in all its elitist, meritocratic glory–has taken a great deal of the credit for Japan’s…
This week: the Meiji Bureaucracy, in all its glory. How did the system actually work? What sorts of people did…