This week, we’re looking at the implosion of the Japanese New Left with a focus on the factional conflicts of…
This week, we’re looking at a very different kind of 60s protest movement: an attempt to build a cross-sectarian, non-ideological…
This week, we’re beginning a month on radical activism in the 1960s with a look at the student uprisings of…
This week: a long-requested dive into the ronin police force known as the Shinsengumi. Who were the members of this…
This week is all about a biography of a fascinating figure of the Meiji Restoration: Oguri Tadamasa. But it’s also…
This week: how has the JMSDF gone from an afterthought to a central part of Japan’s security planning? Sources Patalano,…
This week: the start of a two part series on the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces. Today: how did Japan’s current…
This week: how did a spate of right wing violence in the early years of the 1960s help to fundamentally…
This week: why did the Japanese Socialist Party and the left more generally utterly fail to capitalize on the momentum…
This week, we’re kicking off a short series on the transformations of 1960s Japan with a look at the unassuming…