This week: after Taiho, the floodgates open as more non-Japanese rikishi begin to enter the sport. One of them, Takamiyama,…
This week, we’re beginning a new miniseries on the legends of Japan’s most ancient sport: sumo. What can we learn…
For our final episode of this miniseries: Miyazaki Manabu faces down with the National Police Agency as he finds himself…
In our penultimate episode for this miniseries: Miyazaki Manabu narrowly escapes doing prison time, only to end up back in…
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…
In the final episode of this series: how did “otaku culture” spread overseas when it was so stigmatized at home,…
Our last episode of 2024 is also the first episode in a series on one of Japan’s most distinctive cultural…