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Estimated from 11 chart positions in 11 markets.
By chart position
- 🇺🇸US · History#1995K to 30K
- 🇯🇵JP · History#3030K to 100K
- 🇮🇹IT · History#4430K to 100K
- 🇰🇷KR · History#1921K to 10K
- 🇻🇳VN · History#104500 to 3K
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21K to 78K🎙 Daily cadence·637 episodes·Last published 5d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
70K to 261K🇯🇵38%🇮🇹38%🇺🇸11%+8 more - Active Followers
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28K to 104K
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Episode 631 - An Interview with Evelyn Iritani
Jun 19, 2026
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Bonus episode - The Chishima Incident
Jun 5, 2026
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Episode 629 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 4
May 29, 2026
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Episode 628 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 3
May 22, 2026
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Episode 627 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 2
May 15, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/19/26 | ![]() Episode 631 - An Interview with Evelyn Iritani | First thing's first: I made a numbering error a few weeks back, and so to get us back on the correct count we're just going to skip episode 630! This week, I'm very lucky to be joined by journalist and writer (and Pulitzer Prize winner) Evelyn Iritani to talk about her new book Safe Passage (and a bit about her old book An Ocean Between Us). Check the book out here for a look into an underexplored moment in the history of US-Japan relations. Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | ![]() Bonus episode - The Chishima Incident | We're coming up on the end of the school year here in the US and will have to briefly interrupt our normal programming. To tide you over, here's a bonus episode from my old podcast Criminal Records. We'll be back on June 12! Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Episode 629 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 4 | Fate twists once again in Fujiwara no Michinaga's favor as an unfortunate accident of birth sees him solidify his grip on power. This week: the final steps of Michinaga's rise, his legacy, and that of Eiga Monogatari. Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | ![]() Episode 628 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 3 | Fujiwara no Michinaga is on top of the world, but there's one final hurdle to overcome. His deceased brother's daughter is still the leader of the emperor's harem, and his closest confidant in the world. Without a grandson to make crown prince, he'll be finished. What is to be done? And how will his strategy accidentally promote a rivalry between two of the most famous women in all of Japanese history? Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | ![]() Episode 627 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 2 | This week: Fujiwara no Kaneie is a name we've encountered once before on the podcast. But now we get to see him in his element as a wheeler and dealer who lays out a perfect blueprint for assuming political power from an older sibling. And we'll get to see Kaneie's sons fight a very similar battle--leading to the rise of the man who would take the Fujiwara to the zenith of their power, Fujiwara no Michinaga. Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Episode 626 - Flowering Fortunes, Part 1 | We're starting a new series taking a look at an oft neglected classic of Heian literature: The Eiga Monogatari, or Tale of Flowering Fortunes, which tells the history of the great Fujiwara family at the height of its power. This week: what do we know about Eiga Monogatari and how it fits into the wider literary history of classical Japan? Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Episode 625 - An Ocean Between Us, Part 3✨ | US-Japan relations1988 events+3 | — | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | JapanPort Angeles+1 | JapanUS relations+5 | — | 36m 00s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() Episode 625 - An Ocean Between Us, Part 2✨ | Japanese historyWorld War II+3 | — | — | Port Angeles | Osasa MasaruPort Angeles+3 | — | 35m 03s | |
| 4/17/26 | ![]() Episode 624 - An Ocean Between Us, Part 1✨ | Japan historyPort Angeles+3 | — | — | Washington's Olympic PeninsulaPort Angeles | Japanhistory+3 | — | 34m 55s | |
| 4/10/26 | ![]() Episode 623 - The Great Peace, Part 2✨ | TaiheikiHojo downfall+3 | — | HojoTaiheiki | — | TaiheikiHojo+3 | — | 35m 16s | |
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| 4/3/26 | ![]() Episode 622 - The Great Peace, Part 1✨ | medieval Japanliterature+3 | — | TaiheikiHeike Monogatari | — | TaiheikiHeike Monogatari+3 | — | 36m 41s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() Episode 621 - The Manga Revolution, Part 3✨ | manga industryWorld War II+3 | — | shojo manga | — | mangaWorld War II+3 | — | 32m 17s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() Episode 620 - The Manga Revolution, Part 2✨ | manga historyEdo period+3 | — | manga | — | mangaEdo period+3 | — | 32m 09s | |
| 3/13/26 | ![]() Episode 619 - The Manga Revolution, Part 1✨ | mangaJapanese comics+3 | — | manga | Japan | mangaJapanese comics+3 | — | 33m 54s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() Episode 618 - Live by the Sword✨ | samuraiMiyamoto Musashi+3 | — | — | — | samuraiMiyamoto Musashi+3 | — | 36m 26s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Episode 617 - I am Legend, Part 4✨ | YoshitsuneJapanese legends+4 | — | Gikeiki | Hokkaido | YoshitsuneGikeiki+5 | — | 39m 18s | |
| 2/20/26 | ![]() Episode 616 - I am Legend, Part 3 | This week, we come to the text that more than any other helps build the Yoshitsune legend: Gikeiki. Here, at long last, we see the legend of Yoshitsune taking a form that a modern audience might recognize--and in the process, beginning to diverge pretty substantially (though not entirely) from the historical record. Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 2/13/26 | ![]() Episode 615 - I am Legend, Part 2 | This week, the Yoshitsune legend finds its legs with Heike Monogatari--one of the most epic works in Japanese history. Except that while Yoshitsune is a bigger deal here than he is in Azuma Kagami, he's still far from the main character....so where does he show up, what changes does Heike make from the Azuma Kagami version, and what's still missing from our hero's story? Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | ![]() Episode 614 - I am Legend, Part 1 | Note: I made a mistake recording this episode but did not have time to go back and fix it. It's episode 614! This week, we're starting a three-part series on the evolution of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from historical figure to national legend. This week: what do we know for sure about one of the most famous samurai in Japan, and what do our oldest available sources have to say about him? Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 1/31/26 | ![]() Episode 613 - I am a Cat | This week, we're covering one of the most titanic names in Japanese literature--Natsume Soseki--and the work that propelled him to fame. How did the tale of a sardonic, anonymous cat transform a relatively unknown literature professor into arguably the most famous writer in modern Japanese history? Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | ![]() Episode 612 - The Final Frontier, Part 8 | This week: Japanese Manchuria comes crashing down as a combination of poorly planned colonial policies and a worsening war situation see imperial power on the mainland collapse. Plus: what do we learn about the nature of empire from a long, in-depth look at Manchuria? Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | ![]() Episode 611 - The Final Frontier, Part 7 | This week: some reflections on the hollow nature of Manchurian "independence", and on what kept the state going if so few of its own residents believed in its promises. Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | ![]() Episode 610 - The Final Frontier, Part 6 | This week on the podcast: the Japanese presence in Manchuria was never particularly large, even at its height. So how did Japanese rule in Manchuria last as long as it did? And what of the resistance? Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 12/26/25 | ![]() Episode 609 - The Final Frontier, Part 5 | In the last episode of 2025: a bomb "mysteriously" goes off just outside Mukden during the evening of September 18, 1931. Less than six months later, Manchuria becomes an "independent country." Japan's government loses complete control over the army, all over the issue of its new "Manchurian Lifeline." And suddenly, for some reason, the last emperor of China is back! Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 12/19/25 | ![]() Episode 608 - The Final Frontier, Part 4 | As Japan enters the 1920s, national policy becomes increasingly liberalized--but Manchuria remains a holdout of extremists who, if anything, begin to take a more aggressive position on the "China Problem." How did that happen--and how did that aggressive position, seemingly overnight, become normalized back in Japan proper? Show notes here. | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
11 placements across 11 markets.
Chart Positions
11 placements across 11 markets.
