The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 was one of the most devastating catastrophes in modern Japanese history, but in English…
Histories of manga tend to skip from the colorful woodblocks of the Edo period directly to the post-WWII industry we’d…
This week, we’re starting a history of the most famous genre in the history of Japanese film: the jidaigeki, and…
This week, we conclude our look at canine history in Japan with the nation’s most famous dog: Hachiko. You might…