Hatoyama Kazuo was a reluctant politician; you can’t say the same of his son Hatoyama Ichiro, groomed from childhood to take up the family business (and to rise to the height of cabinet minister, something his father never did). This week is all about Ichiro’s prewar career, which culminated in a shot at the top job–that was snapped away at the last moment.
Japan’s empire in Micronesia comes apart under the face of both the miscalculations of military leadership and the contradictions that had haunted it from the jump.
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 wrapping up our history of the colonization of Hokkaido with a look at the impact of the…
This week, we cover Sorge’s career in Tokyo, and explore just how he was able to convince so many people…
This week, we begin our exploration of the life and career of Richard Sorge, one of the most famous spies…
This week, we’ll cover the striving of Japanese Christians to be accepted as genuine patriots by the government during the…
This week, we’re very lucky to have a chance to speak with Mr. Isaac Shapiro. Mr. Shapiro grew up in…
NOTE: Though there is substantial photographic evidence of the massacre, I am not going to post it directly on the…