This week, we’ll cover the military campaigns of 1868. Edo will (surprisingly anticlimactically) fall, the north will rebel, and Matsudaira…
This week, we’ll discuss the Second Konoe Cabinet, which was torn by indecision and plagued by bad leadership. The Japanese…
This week, we’ll discuss America and Japan’s new roles as Great Powers in the 20th century. We’ll discuss the reasons Japan…
This week, we’re covering two women whose work in the Occupation helped reshape Japan into a modern state. Beate Sirota…
This week, we’re going to take a look at the first figure in recorded Japanese history: Himiko, queen of Yamatai.…
This week, we’re going to discuss the ninja, or at least what we can discern about them from the limited…
Resuming our regularly scheduled programming, we will be turning this week to Japanese foreign policy from 1895 to 1940. There’s…
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