This week: Miyazaki’s time as a politics reporter, the end of his reporting career, and his return to the family…
This week: Miyazaki Manabu’s dramatic departure from the Communist Party, as his faith in the revolution wanes. What does a…
This week: Miyazaki Manabu goes from the Sodai struggle at Waseda to an active participant in the violent clashes of…
This week: Miyazaki Manabu completes his transformation from son of a yakuza boss to a committed member of the Communist…
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This week’s footnote: the first of two parts on the postwar extreme right. This week, we’re mostly focusing on the…
On the final episode of the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the LDP completely fails to meet the challenge of…
In the penultimate episode of the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the 1980s sees the rise of Japan’s asset bubble…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: how did Ikeda Hayato and the LDP build a system that…