What is feudalism? It’s a surprisingly hard question to answer, and one that raises an interesting follow up. Here on…
This week: the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front publishes its manifesto, and spreads beyond its original four members. But after…
Daidoji Masashi’s trajectory from college student to terrorist has a lot to do with the student movement and the New…
On August 30, 1974, a bomb went off at Mitsubishi corporate HQ in Tokyo’s Marunouchi neighborhood. The culprit was a…
This week: the Cowra breakout seemed, to those who lived through it, like it came out of nowhere. But nothing…
At long last, the fight over how to reconstruct Tokyo is done. But what did rebuilding the imperial capital actually…
After Tokyo was burned to the ground, the battle over how to rebuild it began almost immediately. The man leading…
This week: the Great Kanto Earthquake was also the backdrop for one of the most famous murders of 1920s Japan,…
This week: in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake, thousands of Koreans living in Tokyo were massacred by angry…
This week: the question of whether Hirohito would remain emperor of Japan or be replaced with “Emperor Kumazawa” was, in…