Episode 148 - The Birth of the Samurai, Part 3
This week: the Taira family continue their rise to prominence, the Minamoto get stuck spinning their wheels for a few decades, and warrior violence makes its way to Kyoto. All that, plus the hottest c...
7 Mai 201629min
Episode 147 - The Birth of the Samurai, Part 2
This week, Minamoto no Yoshiie establishes the power of the Seiwa Minamoto family, upsetting a careful balance of power. Also, he drops the hottest rhymes of
1 Mai 201625min
Episode 146 - The Birth of the Samurai, Part 1
This week, we'll be starting a short series about the advent of the samurai class. First, what came before the samurai, and why did Japan's emperors decide to devolve more and more power to provincial...
23 Apr 201627min
Episode 145 - An Offer You Can't Refuse, Part 2
What does organized crime look like in modern Japan, and why does anybody put up with it? Also, how many rocket launchers can you buy with 50 pounds of amphetamines? All that and more, this week.
16 Apr 201633min
Episode 144 - An Offer You Can't Refuse, Part 1
Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this episode as a gift on my podcast's release day. Pull off your shirt to reveal your gang...
9 Apr 201631min
Episode 143 - Nanjing, Part 2
This week, we talk about how views of Nanjing have shifted since WWII, and where the modern right-wing revisionists came from. Why are we still talking about a massacre from 80 years ago?
2 Apr 201633min
Episode 142 - Nanjing, Part 1
This week, we look at the events of the Nanjing Massacre. Just what happened in China's capital city in December, 1937?
26 Mar 201633min
Episode 141 - Fukushima
Today we're going to talk about Japan's relationship with nuclear power and the catastrophic events of March, 2011. Why did Japan become so reliant on nuclear energy? Why did all the safeguards in pla...
19 Mar 201632min
