Were atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki an experiment, and other questions with Ran Zwigenberg

In this episode Ra and Sherzod welcomed Ran Zwigenberg, a scholar of Japanese and world history and associate professor at Penn State. A prize-winning historian, Ran is one of the most eclectic and interesting scholars currently writing on Japan, war memory, castles, history of psychiatry and other topics. We discussed the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Ran's opinion on why Japan still matters, a history of human remains (Ran's current research) and, of course, football!