This week, we’re taking a look at the life of one of Japan’s most famous artists: Miyazaki Hayao. How did…
This week: whaling during the modern era in Japan, and the circumstances that have led to Japan being one of…
This week, we’re discussing Japan’s reckoning with its wartime past through the lens of the nation’s self-appointed conscience: the historian…
This week, we’re covering the bizarre history of a hijacking attempt from 1970. What led nine young men to seize…
This week, we’re returning to the era of the bubble economy and its aftermath with an up close look at…
For our final episode in the series, we’re taking a look at the demise of public rail in Japan and…
This week, we’re talking about the birth of the idol industry in Japan. What are idols, how are they made…
This week, we’re taking a look at one of the greatest scandals in the history of Japanese baseball, when the…
This week, we wrap up our history of Christianity in Japan with a look at the Occupation and Postwar Eras…
This week, we wrap up the series with a look at black history during the Occupation and Postwar eras, with…