Episode 485 - Outfoxed!
This week: how did Japan's most popular god develop a following around the country, and why is that god--Inari--associated with everything from farming to fire prevention? How come you see Inari worsh...
26 Maj 202338min
Episode 484 - Passion and Prejudice, Part 2
This week: the Pal dissent becomes the Pal myth. How did an obscure document from the Tokyo Trials end up front and center in nationalist discourse in Japan today? Show notes here.
19 Maj 202339min
Episode 483 - Passion and Prejudice, Part 1
This week, we're starting a look into how an Indian lawyer and judge from a relatively obscure background became a focal point of right-wing Japanese nationalism. Who was Radhabinod Pal, how did he en...
12 Maj 202341min
Episode 483 - Japan, the Beautiful, the Ambiguous, Part 2
Oe Kenzaburo is about as different a writer as you can think of from Kawabata Yasunari, and yet he's Japan's second ever Nobel laureate in literature. What sort of concerns defined his work, and what ...
5 Maj 202336min
Episode 482 - Japan, the Beautiful, the Ambiguous, Part 1
Apologies for the delay, folks. Something went wrong in the Libsyn backend. Here's our episode on Kawabata Yasunari!
1 Maj 202338min
Episode 481 - The Dynasty, Part 4
We're wrapping up our look at the Hatoyama political dynasty with some time on Hatoyama Iichiro (arguably Japan's most reluctant politican) and his two sons Kunio and Yukio. Plus some thoughts on the ...
14 Apr 202337min
Episode 480 - The Dynasty, Part 3
This week: Hatoyama Ichiro's revenge tour culminates in finally reaching the top spot as PM and in the formation of the LDP. What does the torturous road it took to get there tell us about the man, an...
7 Apr 202338min
Episode 479 - The Dynasty, Part 2
Hatoyama Kazuo was a reluctant politician; you can't say the same of his son Hatoyama Ichiro, groomed from childhood to take up the family business (and to rise to the height of cabinet minister, some...
31 Mars 202338min
