Hikikomori

Content Warning: Child Murder, Necrophilia  We continue with the utterly heinous crimes of Tsutomu Miyazaki. After his first murder of a child, he entered a kind of prolonged berserker mode, increasin...

8 Apr 20231h

Tsutomu Miyazaki was a serial murderer of children, active for about 10 months from August 1988. It's a story that has been heavily misrepresented in western media, particularly in regards to Miyazaki...

14 Mar 202353min

It's finally here. This is how and why Shinzo Abe was assassinated, and the unexpected failure to deify him after his death. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and ...

19 Feb 20231h

In this episode we look at the continuing rise of ultranationalist ideology in Japanese politics under Shinzo Abe, including his membership in the secretive and fascistic Nippon Kaigai organisation, h...

5 Feb 202348min

We continue our journey through the life and death of Shinzo Abe. Today we look at his remarkable political comeback in 2011, along with his the incidents that never seemed to tarnish his popularity, ...

24 Jan 20231h 1min

We embark on a 4-part journey through the life and death of Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-running Prime Minister, who just so happened to get assassinated in May of 2022. As we shall discover, perhaps t...

16 Jan 202356min

This is the tale of the rise of fascism in Japan, from its origins in Mussolini's Italy to the first bumbling attempts at coups by clandestine organisations. One of the most unlikely people who became...

5 Jan 202345min

We continue our exploration of Shinzo Abe's greatest influence on his life, the war criminal Nobusuke Kishi. This episode we cover his life after being released from prison, and his highly successful ...

12 Des 202249min