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A history of the people of Japan, from the prehistoric Jomon period to the modern era. WARNING: This podcast occasionally touches on subjects of human sexuality, suicide, violence, and tortu...
While the Allied occupation forces had initially supported the restoration of far-left parties to Japan's political arena, the advent o...
The aftermath of the Pacific War led to an Allied occupation of Japan, during which time Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP) Dougl...
From 1931 to 1945, the empire of Japan was engaging in secret human experimentation in northeast China in violation of multiple internationa...
In this episode, I discuss some of my favorite and not-so-favorite films which depict the events of the second world war. Support the show M...
In this episode, we explore the different uses of concentration camps during the second world war in both Axis and Allied nations. Support t...
Not everyone in the belligerent nations of the second world war was eager to support their government. This episode is all about those who s...
Although the Axis Powers were clearly losing ground throughout late 1944 and early 1945, Japan continued fighting for months after Germany s...
Prime Minister Tojo Hideki planned two major offensives for 1944 which he hoped would reverse the Empire of Japan's fortunes in the Pac...
Resistance grows in the Philippines as Allied forces in the Pacific continue making incursions onto Japanese territory. Meanwhile, a new off...
After their victory at the Battle of Midway, Allied forces in the Pacific took the initiative in the South Pacific. However, the ensuing Gua...
While the first half of 1942 was characterized by small-scale raids and minor skirmishes between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan in th...
With Imperial Japan's military panicking over the oil embargo from the United States, the leaders of the Empire of Japan decided to res...
As Nazi Germany took the offensive against Poland and the second World War began in Europe, Japan chose to continue its path of closely alig...
Japan's colonial possessions throughout the south Pacific proved very profitable, but the close proximity to the colonies of the United...
As the Second Sino-Japanese War raged on, domestic matters in Japan took a turn for the worse as Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro proposed appl...
The Japanese Imperial Army managed to take Wuhan but found it difficult to keep up their previous momentum as Chinese defensive efforts and...
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident which sparked the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy would press on to take...
Competing ideas about the Emperor's identity and proper place in the Japanese political order would become especially heated during the...
The Empire of Japan's decision to break with liberal democracies in favor of rising fascist powers was driven, in part, by the successe...
After alienating the western liberal democracies with whom they had previously enjoyed friendly relations, the Empire of Japan began explori...
Following its investigation into the Mukden Incident and subsequent Japanese occupation of northeast China, the League of Nations demands th...
Japan's conflict with China flares up once again with the Shanghai Incident. Meanwhile, on the domestic front, ultra-nationalist terror...
Three years after the assassination of Zhang Zuolin and attempted framing of the KMT, a group of higher-ranking officers within the Kwantung...
In 1928, a group of officers in the Kwantung Army attempted to frame the KMT for their own assassination of Zhang Zuolin. The failed attempt...
Two years prior to the much larger Great Depression, Japan experienced its own financial crisis thanks to the Great Kanto Earthquake, govern...
The elevation of Emperor Showa was accompanied by a wave of reactionary backlash against Taisho Democracy. Support the show My latest novel,...
Quin Cho's latest book "The Rise of the Kwantung Army" is coming out on September 18. In this special interview episode, we discuss his...
Kaila Yu's memoir "Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty" is coming out on August 19. In this special intervi...
China's difficulties continued throughout the Taisho Period as Yuan Shikai died in the midst of a civil war between China's north...
The question of equal rights for women was extremely divisive in Japan during the Taisho Period. A determined group of feminists would try t...
The Taisho Period witnessed the coming-of-age for many political parties and movements. This episode focuses on the fringe left during the T...
Japan saw its fair share of progress during the Taisho Period but it also saw an increase in the raw cruelty which its armed forces were wil...
Toward the end of the Taisho Period, the Imperial Diet finally passed a law which established universal suffrage for men 25 and older regard...
Japan signed a treaty with their fellow Entente Powers which slowed construction on the ever-increasing navies of many nations. In 1923, a t...
Japan emerges as a major player among world powers as their ambassadors helped finalize the postwar treaties and create a new international...
The new international status quo that emerged after the first World War was very different than what came before, and Japan was poised to be...
The eastern front of the first world war was much busier than its western counterpart and the stakes for one nation were much higher. When t...
The assassination of an Austrian Archduke sparks a chain reaction which would ignite a global conflict on a scale never seen before. If you&...
In early 1912, the Qing Dynasty officially transferred its right to rule to the Republic of China, who named Yuan Shikai as their president...
The first decade of the 1900s witnessed a final attempt by the Qing Dynasty to reform its outmoded systems of governance and forge a new Chi...
The Taisho Period began with a political crisis that threatened to upend the stability established by the Meiji Period as the people of Japa...
This episode follows the lives and adventures of Basil Hall Chamberlain and Lafcadio Hearn, two of the most famous foreign residents who liv...
The Meiji Period witnessed a radical expansion of the Japanese palate as the people began consuming foreign foods like beer and the governme...
Writers of the Meiji Period included some of the most influential Japanese authors of all time, many of whom are still regularly included in...
The Meiji period saw sweeping transformation in nearly every aspect of Japanese society. The political status quo which it established, howe...
After the Russo-Japanese War, the Meiji government moved quickly to solidify their control of Korea, gradually chipping away at the sovereig...
Both Russia and Japan were desperate to end the Russo-Japanese War by the summer of 1905. However, the conditions of that peace would not br...
After securing the southern portion of Liaodong Province, the Imperial Japanese Army proceeded to besiege Port Arthur while simultaneously f...
In February of 1904, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Port Arthur and initiate the Russo-Japanese War. Support the s...
We examine the development Russian Empire of the 1800s and see what factors set them on a collision course with Japan in 1904. Support the s...