Over at the Subject to Change podcast, we reach the third and final part of our deep dive into my book Japan at War in the Pacific, as the months of “running wild” come to an end, and the Allies grow ever nearer.

Includes the pernicious propaganda of Alexander’s Ragtime Band, the reasons why cops find a gold-painted human skull in an American lake, creepy casting decisions for Hamlet, and the dramatic gunfight at the imperial palace as extremists tried to prevent the broadcast of Hirohito’s surrender address.