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 question of whether Hirohito would remain emperor of Japan or be replaced with “Emperor Kumazawa” was, in…
This week: in 1988, a Japanese company bought a paper mill in Port Angeles, WA, in a story that basically…
This week: the manga industry during World War II. Plus some thoughts on the development of shojo manga, and finally…
For a long time, the bureaucracy–in all its elitist, meritocratic glory–has taken a great deal of the credit for Japan’s…
Our final episode in this miniseries brings conspiracism in Japan to the present day, as we discuss a wave of…
This week, something a bit different: the start of a history of conspiracy theories in Japan. This first episode is…
This week: we take a look at the genre of the yakuza movie, or ninkyo eiga, which started off as…