Oct 13, 2018

This week: the Great Kanto Earthquake, the firebombing campaign, and Tokyo during the Occupation. 

Oct 6, 2018

This week, from Edo to Tokyo: how the shogun's city became the emperor's!

Sep 29, 2018

This week, we start a look at the history of the city of Tokyo. How did the frontier fishing village of Edo go from backwater nowhere to the heart of the nation in only a few short generations?

Sep 22, 2018

This week, we cover the life and legacy of one of the great bridges between Japan and China -- the Christian bookseller of Shanghai, Uchiyama Kanzo. 

Sep 15, 2018

This week, we take a look at the history of pro wrestling in Japan, and its unlikely progenitor: a Korean-born sumo wrestler named Rikidozan.