This week: outside of big urban riots, how did violence figure into the daily life of the Edo period? To…
This week, we cover the second and third of Edo’s three great riots in 1787 and 1866. How did samurai…
In the final episode of this series: how did “otaku culture” spread overseas when it was so stigmatized at home,…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the economics of Meiji Japan, and a brief foray into social…
We’re covering the art of rakugo–storytelling with a twist! How did rakugo emerge from the history of Buddhism, and what has enabled its enduring popularity where contemporary entertainments like kabuki have fallen by the wayside?
This week, we’ll be talking about the height of postwar Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. On the surface, it’s…