Aug 28, 2026
In a wide-ranging episode intended just to be the introduction
to the largest mass prisoner breakout of WWII, we first have to
tackle...the history of Japan-Australia relations all the way up to
1940 and the role Australia played in Japanese militarist
thought.
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Aug 14, 2026
After Tokyo was burned to the ground, the battle over how to rebuild it began almost immediately. The man leading the charge--one of Japan's foremost bureaucrats--would become so frustrated with the experience that it would crush him completely. In the process, the fight would reveal some deep divisions over...
Aug 7, 2026
Why did so many greet the destruction of Tokyo not with consternation, but seeming joy? The answer has to do with one of the most complex phenomenon in the history of modern urbanism, and with the history of Edo's transformation into Tokyo and all the modern vices that came with it.
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