Peter Barakan is a broadcaster and a 45-year resident of Japan. In this series, he discovers how Japan is changing, s...

Almost immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, people in the Tohoku region started talking about e...

In 2020, Tokyo expected to welcome people from all over the world for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Instead, the ...

The Ainu are the indigenous people of northern Japan. They were once subjected to cultural assimilation policies, and...

Japan's Jomon period was a time of peace that persisted for over 10,000 years. As the world moves towards implementin...

Okinawa Prefecture is a group of subtropical islands in the south of Japan. It previously thrived as a separate count...

When pirates operated in Japan's Seto Inland Sea around 500 years ago, the largest group, the Murakami Kaizoku, certa...

Tanaka Isson, an artist known as Japan's "Gauguin," moved to the subtropical island of Amami Oshima at the age of 50 ...

In the 19th century, writer Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) helped introduce Japan to the wider world. Peter Barakan ...

Pioneering ecologist Minakata Kumagusu explored the forests of Kumano. Join Peter Barakan as he follows Minakata's pa...

Admired by John F. Kennedy, Uesugi Yozan transformed the fortunes of the struggling Yonezawa Domain. Peter Barakan vi...

In 1843, after surviving a shipwreck, 16-year-old John Manjiro found himself in the US. He later played a key role in...

Yoshida Shoin was an educator whose students played key roles in Japan's modernization. He died at 29, but his ideals...