Des sacrifices humains au Japon ?

À travers l’Histoire, de nombreuses sociétés se sont organisées de façon patriarcale : à savoir que tout ou partie des fonctions dirigeantes étaient placées entre les mains des hommes. Du coup, ça suppose une certaine exclusion des femmes pour ces fonctions. Et comme tant d’autre ...  Show more

À votre avis, pourquoi Rome a-t-elle eu une histoire aussi glorieuse ? Et si je vous disais… que c’était grâce à ses routes ? Qui aurait cru que la grandeur d’un empire tenait à l’enchevêtrement astucieux de gros pavés sur plusieurs couches de mortier, de cailloux, de pierres pla ...  Show more

Ritualistic human sacrifice was a common practice in early and classical cultures. While we know it was done to earn the blessings of the gods, many scholars and archaeologists point to the underlying ways that human sacrifice served to enforce social control. In this episode, we ...  Show more

The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai and his astonishing journey from Northern Africa to the heights of Japanese society. When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traveled much of the known world. Kidnapped as a child, and trained into ...  Show more

Who are Fujin and Raijin (the Japanese Wind God and Thunder God), where did they come from, and what do they do? Today I'll tell you about their origins in India and a Japanese Goddesses' decaying body. Visit the Uncanny Japan website to read the show notes and transcript. Unca ...  Show more

Oda Nobunaga, samurai warlord. He’s one of Japan’s most infamous and consequential figures, known to many as Japan’s first ‘Great Unifier’. From humble beginnings as the daimyo of Owari province, he embarked on a mission to unite all of Japan under his sole control. But how did h ...  Show more