Christopher Harding

Why bother rehashing that here in a podcast when you can just read the book for yourself? Today I'm getting the answers to my own questions about the history of a country that have made my home.

Christopher Harding is the author of A Short History of Japan and other books.

He teaches at the University of Edinburgh and is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times, the London Review of Books, and UnHerd.

We spoke about the central drama of Japanese history, everyday life during a century and a half of civil war, and how a new form of Buddhism helped reshape the arts.