This week on the podcast, we’re exploring the life of a woman whose story would normally be confined to the…
This week, we’re taking some material from the cutting room floor of last series to talk about the stories of…
This week: Hideyoshi’s ‘friendship’ proves less useful than hoped, resulting in a 1587 ban on Christianity and Nagasaki losing its…
This week, Christian Nagasaki survives its early trials and tribulations to become a Jesuit fortress-town, and a centerpiece of some…
This week, we’re covering the founding of Japan’s most unusual city: Nagasaki, unique among major Japanese cities in being founded…
This week: how did the overseas slave trade from Japan continue despite a Portuguese ban? How was the trade finally…
This week, we’re wrapping up our month on piracy by looking at how the image of “Japanese pirates” became so…
This week, we’re talking about how Hideyoshi finally tamed Japan’s pirates, and why that makes them so hard to understand…
This week, we’re focusing on the height of piracy during the civil wars in Japan, and in particular the powerful…
This week, we’re going to stay in the Sengoku but take a step away from all this samurai action to…