Episode 196 - Fist of Legend, Part 3
This week: the rise of judo and of the modern budo, and karate strikes back!
3 Juni 201727min
Episode 195 - Fist of Legend, Part 2
This week: who wants to swing a sword when you can just shoot a gun?
27 Maj 201729min
Episode 194 - Fist of Legend, Part 1
This week: where do Japan's traditional martial arts come from?
20 Maj 201726min
Episode 193 - No Country for Young Women, Part 2
This week: what are three educated women to do in a society that doesn't value their education?
13 Maj 201730min
Episode 192 - No Country for Young Women, Part 1
This week: the beginning of a two parter on Japan's first ever female exchange students.
6 Maj 201728min
Episode 191 - Lifting the Lost, Part 9
This week: what, in the end, did the Occupation mean -- for both the occupied and the occupier?
29 Apr 201730min
Episode 190 - Lifting the Lost, Part 8
This week: what was it like to live through the Occupation? How did people get by? And why is Kurosawa Akira objectively the greatest director ever?
22 Apr 201727min
Episode 189 - Lifting the Lost, Part 7
This week: the social reforms of the Occupation. Economic policy, education policy: it's like our very own C-SPAN screening!
15 Apr 201729min
