The Breskens crew arrive in Edo, with the question of how they are to be treated looming over them. At…
This week, we’re taking a look at the foreign policy of Edo Japan by starting a deep dive into a…
This week, we’ll cover the end of USCAR and the legacies of 27 years of foreign rule over Okinawa Prefecture.…
This week, we start off some coverage of the period of American rule over the Ryukyus, and the entwined histories…
Finally, a long overdue look at one of the most romanticized and exocitized parts of traditional Japanese culture. What are…
This week, we take a look at the peasant uprisings in Aizu domain in 1868 to continue our exploration of…
While the Meiji Restoration was going on, where was everybody else? We’ll start trying to answer that question today with…
It’s a shame you can’t embed gifs in the episode descriptions, because otherwise this would just be the Ron Paul…
This week, we cover an obscure bit of samurai history: the Keian Incident, a planned coup against the Tokugawa Shoguns…
This week, we profile one of the great Western interpreters of Japan: Lafcadio Hearn. How did some Anglo-Greek kid end…