Chris Harding

Really enjoyed this conversation!

Gaming Japan's bloody past Controversies over the latest instalment in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, set during Japan’s bloody Sengoku jidai, or ‘era of warring states’ (c.1467-1600), show why the past should not be sanitised...

Gaming Japan’s bloody past | @drchrisharding.bsky.social

engelsbergideas.com/notebook/gam...

The Real Shogun: The English Navigator Who Became a Samurai | Dan Snow's History Hit How a sailor from Kent rose through the ranks of Japanese society to become the first Western samurai.

For anyone after a Saturday samurai fix, here's @thehistoryguy.bsky.social talking to one of the historical advisors for Disney's #Shogun:

shows.acast.com/dansnowshist...

Bin Lorries and the Fraying of Japan's Social Contract Can Japan hang onto its 'nice things'?

Can Japan hang onto its 'nice things'...?

My weekly post for IlluminAsia.

www.illuminasia.org/p/bin-lorrie...

Some thoughts on the hoo-ha over #AssassinsCreedShadows.

#AssassinsCreed
#ACShadows

Fascinating - and shocking - stats.

“We just wanted to see the historic electric substation.”

This is well worth a read. 30 years on, it remains one of the most shocking moments in postwar Japanese history - both the attack itself, on the Tokyo underground, and the fact that ordinary, intelligent young people had seen so little future for themselves in Japan that they joined a cult.

Great piece on the re-enchantment phenomenon - of which I suspect the #TelepathyTapes are a part, with their criticism of scientific materialism and push for Idealism.

Assassin's Creed and Japan's Slasher-in-Chief Does Japan's Prime Minister Need a History Lesson?

What the controversy over Assassin’s Creed Shadows gets wrong - does Japan’s prime minister need a history lesson?
www.illuminasia.org/p/assassins-...