This week, we look at Japan’s relationship with blackness and black communities in the wake of the Meiji Restoration, and…
This week, we explore the career of the first woman to make a big splash in modern Japanese literature: Higuchi…
This week, it’s time to talk backroom deals and business trickery, because we’re chronicling the rise of Mitsubishi and the…
This week, we look at the violent incidents that eventually undermined the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement, and the legacies…
How do you talk about a movement without clear leaders? By breaking down its different levels. Plus, a look at…
This week, we’re starting a look at the Jiyu Minken Undo — the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement — by…
While the Meiji Restoration was going on, where was everybody else? We’ll start trying to answer that question today with…
This week, we profile one of the great Western interpreters of Japan: Lafcadio Hearn. How did some Anglo-Greek kid end…
This week we take on the history of the von Siebold family — father Philip Franz, son Alexander, and daughter…
This week: the beginning of a two parter on Japan’s first ever female exchange students. Listen to the episode here.…