Episode 38: Fortune Cookies and the American Identity
The fortune cookie factory in San Francisco's Chinatown is often characterized as an emblem of the past-the last of its kind. Located in a crowded alleyway, tourists gather to see the meticulous foldi...
26 Aug 20205min
Episode 37: Pre-WW2 Japan's Economic Policies
What makes Japan especially unique, when considering the economic history of the country, would be their implementations of policies. Analyzing Japan’s Economic Miracle after World War II cannot be do...
24 Aug 20205min
Episode 36: The Fall of Rangoon
In March 1942, Japan seized control of the lower region of Burma by taking the city of Rangoon. Rangoon, now known as Yangon, was Burma’s administrative and commercial capital. The city was a crucial ...
21 Aug 20205min
Episode 35: Interrogation Revealing Ishii Shiro’s Plan for Biological Warfare
Under the leadership of Commanding Officer Ishii Shiro, Unit 731 in Harbin, Manchuria functioned as the Imperial Japanese Army’s covert weapons research facility. Here, from 1937-1945, Japanese scient...
19 Aug 20204min
Episode 34: Post World War II Japan Reflected through Marie Kondo
Marie Kondo has garnered mass mainstream attention through her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2011) and the corresponding Netflix show “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo” (2019). In media, Kond...
17 Aug 20205min
Episode 33: The Timeline of India's Independence
Though colonized by the Great Britain Empire for almost 200 years, the Indians never gave up their hope for liberty. During 1857 and 1858, the Indians rose against the rule of British East India Compa...
14 Aug 20205min
Episode 32: India’s Involvement in World War II
The view of the World Wars are often through the western lens. World War historiography mostly glosses over the involvement of colonial armies, and other foreign and transnational armies, who played s...
12 Aug 20206min
Episode 31: Little Saigons in America, A Home Away from Home
On April 30th, 1975, the Fall of Saigon occurred and left more than 1.6 million Vietnamese immigrants, to be resettled around the world. Vietnamese immigrants fled in two distinct waves. The first wav...
10 Aug 202010min
