Episode 260 - The City that Never Sleeps, Part 3
This week: the Great Kanto Earthquake, the firebombing campaign, and Tokyo during the Occupation.
13 Okt 201830min
Episode 259 - The City that Never Sleeps, Part 2
This week, from Edo to Tokyo: how the shogun's city became the emperor's!
6 Okt 201829min
Episode 258 - The City that Never Sleeps, Part 1
This week, we start a look at the history of the city of Tokyo. How did the frontier fishing village of Edo go from backwater nowhere to the heart of the nation in only a few short generations?
29 Sep 201829min
Episode 257 - The Bookseller
This week, we cover the life and legacy of one of the great bridges between Japan and China -- the Christian bookseller of Shanghai, Uchiyama Kanzo.
22 Sep 201830min
Episode 256 - The Wrestler
This week, we take a look at the history of pro wrestling in Japan, and its unlikely progenitor: a Korean-born sumo wrestler named Rikidozan.
15 Sep 201827min
Episode 255 - The Beautiful Island, Part 4
This week, we close out our time with Taiwan with a look at its return to the Republic of China, and at the modern day relationship between the "renegade province" and Japan.
8 Sep 201829min
Episode 254 - The Beautiful Island, Part 3
This week, Japan's attempt to assimilate Taiwan finds some success, and one big stumbling block: the Musha Incident, the last and largest rebellion against Japanese rule on the island. Plus, the begin...
1 Sep 201829min
Episode 253 - The Beautiful Island, Part 2
This week: now that Japan has conquered Taiwan, what are they actually going to do with it?
25 Aug 201833min
