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Episode 645 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 3
Oct 16, 2026
36m 05s
Episode 644 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 2
Oct 9, 2026
34m 52s
Episode 643 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 1
Oct 2, 2026
34m 22s
Announcment - No episode this week
Sep 21, 2026
Episode 642 - The Hunters, Part 2
Sep 18, 2026
32m 15s
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- 🇯🇵Japan · History#331.1K to 6.7K
- 🇮🇹Italy · History#108174 to 1.1K
- 🇦🇺Australia · History#154158 to 985
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/16/26 | Episode 645 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 3 | This week: the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front publishes its manifesto, and spreads beyond its original four members. But after a few months of terror bombings (and one completely botched attempt to assassinate Hirohito), the group is brought low and its members--with a few exceptions--end up in prison. That story today, plus a question: in the end, what did all this actually accomplish? Show notes here. | 36m 05s | ||||||
| 10/9/26 | Episode 644 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 2 | Daidoji Masashi's trajectory from college student to terrorist has a lot to do with the student movement and the New Left in 1960s Tokyo. How did his time at Hōsei University set the idealistic young man on a collision course with the ideologies of "anti-Japanism", and from there to embracing violence as a tool of politics? Show notes here. | 34m 52s | ||||||
| 10/2/26 | Episode 643 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 1 | On August 30, 1974, a bomb went off at Mitsubishi corporate HQ in Tokyo's Marunouchi neighborhood. The culprit was a group calling itself the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front - Wolf Cell. This week: how did this radical movement grow out of Japan's 1960s, and what does it have to do with the wider political phenomenon known as the New Left? Show notes here. | 34m 22s | ||||||
| 9/21/26 | Announcment - No episode this week | Heads up folks: no new episode this week. I came down with a pretty bad bug and it's put me very behind on production, plus my voice is a bit shot. I'll see you all next week. | — | ||||||
| 9/18/26 | Episode 642 - The Hunters, Part 2 | How does a matagi hunt actually work, and how has matagi culture evolved over the course of the 20th century? And finally: why is it that so many today seem to think the matagi will be extinct themselves before too long? Show notes here. | 32m 15s | ||||||
| 9/11/26 | Episode 641 - The Hunters, Part 1 | Not many have heard of the Matagi, the hunters who live in northern Honshu. What do we know of their origins and history, and how do they fit into our knowledge of premodern Japan? Show notes here. | 31m 58s | ||||||
| 9/4/26 | Episode 640 - The Great Escape, Part 2 | This week: the Cowra breakout seemed, to those who lived through it, like it came out of nowhere. But nothing does, so what factors led to it? How did the breakout itself play out? And what are its legacies, both in terms of Australia-Japan relations and the wider question of Japanese "fanaticism" in WWII? Show notes here. | 33m 01s | ||||||
| 8/28/26 | Episode 639 - The Great Escape, Part 1 | In a wide-ranging episode intended just to be the introduction to the largest mass prisoner breakout of WWII, we first have to tackle...the history of Japan-Australia relations all the way up to 1940 and the role Australia played in Japanese militarist thought. Show notes here. | 33m 49s | ||||||
| 8/21/26 | Episode 638 - The Catastrophe, Part 6 | At long last, the fight over how to reconstruct Tokyo is done. But what did rebuilding the imperial capital actually look like? Show notes here. | 33m 57s | ||||||
| 8/14/26 | Episode 637 - The Catastrophe, Part 5 | After Tokyo was burned to the ground, the battle over how to rebuild it began almost immediately. The man leading the charge--one of Japan's foremost bureaucrats--would become so frustrated with the experience that it would crush him completely. In the process, the fight would reveal some deep divisions over the importance of the capital and the nature of the postwar state itself. Show notes here. | 37m 29s | ||||||
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| 8/7/26 | Episolde 636 - The Catastrophe, Part 4 | Why did so many greet the destruction of Tokyo not with consternation, but seeming joy? The answer has to do with one of the most complex phenomenon in the history of modern urbanism, and with the history of Edo's transformation into Tokyo and all the modern vices that came with it. Show notes here. | 36m 58s | ||||||
| 7/31/26 | Episode 635 - The Catastrophe, Part 3 | This week: the Great Kanto Earthquake was also the backdrop for one of the most famous murders of 1920s Japan, one that set the stage for a seismic shift within the nation's political sphere. This week: who was Ito Noe, and how did her murder in a time of national emergency reflect a shift in Japan's political discourse? Show notes here. | 37m 04s | ||||||
| 7/17/26 | Great Kanto EarthquakeKorean massacre+3 | — | — | TokyoKorea | Kanto EarthquakeTokyo+5 | — | 36m 33s | ||
| 7/10/26 | Great Kanto EarthquakeJapanese history+3 | — | — | — | Kanto Earthquake1923+5 | — | 37m 30s | ||
| 7/3/26 | Japanese historyHirohito+4 | — | Geocities | — | HirohitoEmperor Kumazawa+4 | — | 36m 59s | ||
| 6/26/26 | Japanese historyAmerican occupation+3 | — | — | Japan | Japanemperor+4 | — | 34m 25s | ||
| 6/19/26 | US-Japan relationsjournalism+3 | Evelyn Iritani | Safe PassageAn Ocean Between Us | — | Evelyn IritaniSafe Passage+4 | — | 44m 26s | ||
| 6/5/26 | Chishima Incidentbonus episode+3 | — | Criminal Records | — | Chishima Incidentbonus episode+3 | — | 1h 03m 55s | ||
| 5/29/26 | Fujiwara no MichinagaJapanese history+4 | — | Eiga Monogatari | — | Fujiwara no MichinagaJapanese history+4 | — | 36m 32s | ||
| 5/22/26 | Japanese historyFujiwara clan+3 | — | — | — | Fujiwara no MichinagaJapanese history+3 | — | 34m 29s | ||
| 5/15/26 | political powerFujiwara clan+4 | — | — | — | Fujiwara no KaneieFujiwara no Michinaga+3 | — | 35m 07s | ||
| 5/8/26 | Heian literatureEiga Monogatari+3 | — | Fujiwara familyEiga Monogatari | Japan | Eiga MonogatariHeian literature+3 | — | 33m 36s | ||
| 5/1/26 | US-Japan relations1988 events+3 | — | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | JapanPort Angeles+1 | JapanUS relations+5 | — | 36m 00s | ||
| 4/24/26 | Japanese historyWorld War II+3 | — | — | Port Angeles | Osasa MasaruPort Angeles+3 | — | 35m 03s | ||
| 4/17/26 | Japan historyPort Angeles+3 | — | — | Washington's Olympic PeninsulaPort Angeles | Japanhistory+3 | — | 34m 55s | ||
| 4/10/26 | TaiheikiHojo downfall+3 | — | HojoTaiheiki | — | TaiheikiHojo+3 | — | 35m 16s | ||
| 4/3/26 | medieval Japanliterature+3 | — | TaiheikiHeike Monogatari | — | TaiheikiHeike Monogatari+3 | — | 36m 41s | ||
| 3/27/26 | manga industryWorld War II+3 | — | shojo manga | — | mangaWorld War II+3 | — | 32m 17s | ||
| 3/20/26 | manga historyEdo period+3 | — | manga | — | mangaEdo period+3 | — | 32m 09s | ||
| 3/13/26 | mangaJapanese comics+3 | — | manga | Japan | mangaJapanese comics+3 | — | 33m 54s | ||
| 3/6/26 | samuraiMiyamoto Musashi+3 | — | — | — | samuraiMiyamoto Musashi+3 | — | 36m 26s | ||
| 2/27/26 | YoshitsuneJapanese legends+4 | — | Gikeiki | Hokkaido | YoshitsuneGikeiki+5 | — | 39m 18s | ||
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Chart history for History of Japan
Peaked at #33 in Japan, currently #33 in Japan.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | — | #33 | #33 | — |
| MY | — | #55 | #55 | — |
| HK | — | #63 | #63 | — |
| CH | — | #89 | #89 | — |
| Italy | — | #108 | #108 | — |
| Finland | — | #114 | #114 | — |
| SG | — | #115 | #115 | — |
| PH | — | #119 | #119 | — |
| Sweden | — | #131 | #131 | — |
| Australia | — | #154 | #154 | — |
| GR | — | #169 | #169 | — |
| CZ | — | #170 | #170 | — |
| IL | — | #174 | #174 | — |
| CL | — | #179 | #179 | — |
| United States | — | #184 | #184 | — |
Chart Positions
15 placements across 15 markets.
Chart Positions
15 placements across 15 markets.