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The 1860s in Japan saw quite a number of political assassinations. Not satisfied with only killing actual people and displaying their heads on the banks of the Kamo River, though,

It's well known that the Mongols led two failed invasions of Kyushu ("mainland" Japan) in 1274 and 1281. But according to the 1701 Chūzan Seifu 中山世譜, an official history of

Thank you to everyone at @ucsc_omi for an incredible program today on the Koza Uprising which took place on Dec 20, 1970. Deeply moving, thought-provoking, and educational. I learned a

In 1872, the Empire of Japan declared that King Shô Tai of the Kingdom of Ryûkyû was to be no longer the king of a kingdom, but a lord of

For the first time, actually starting to get a sense of which Jinbocho shops are which. Keibundo 慶文堂 is a small shop, but one of the few with sections explicitly

Sunpu (Shizuoka City) is also the birthplace of Yamada Nagamasa, an incredible figure who in the 1620s was head of the Japanese community in Ayutthaya (Siam), head of the Ayutthaya

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