Show guide
COTEN RADIO (コテンラジオ) is one of Japan's most popular history podcasts — history geeks reading world history to ask “what is a human being?” It's real native Japanese; here's how to study it in Wakatta.
About the show
A wildly popular history podcast for Japanese listeners: two history geeks and a self-described “history weakling” turn world history into fast, funny, story-driven episodes — and use it as a lens on human nature and modern life. It's natural-speed native Japanese (around N1) with dense vocabulary, so it's advanced immersion.
How to use it in Wakatta
In Wakatta the show is ready to play, and every episode is a tappable transcript with furigana. Tap any word for its reading and meaning, save the ones worth keeping, and review them later with the exact sentence and audio — so you actually understand what you hear instead of listening past it. (Don’t see a show you love? Search for any podcast in the app.)
What a transcript looks like
今日はお茶を淹れます。
淹れます iremasu · to brew (tea)
Every episode becomes a transcript like this — tap any word for its reading and meaning.
Recent episodes
- 【番外編＃144】まっすぐ！バングラデシュの教育現場より②（学校建設への道） ゲスト：エクマットラ代表・渡辺大樹氏 · 2026-07-08
- 【番外編＃143】まっすぐ！バングラディシュの教育現場より①（ダッカ路上の現実） ゲスト：エクマットラ代表・渡辺大樹氏 · 2026-07-05
- 【65-11】女子医学生にこそスパルタ教育！海を越えて続く女医の系譜【COTEN RADIOショート エリザベス・ブラックウェル編11】 · 2026-07-01
- 【65-10】なければ作ろう！私たちで！女性による女性のための病院誕生【COTEN RADIOショート エリザベス・ブラックウェル編10】 · 2026-06-28
- 【65-9】過酷すぎた医者修行 〜隻眼の新米女医が掴むプロフェッショナリズム〜【COTEN RADIOショート エリザベス・ブラックウェル編9】 · 2026-06-24
- 【65-8】私は学生！だから学ばせて！孤高に立つエリザベスの主張【COTEN RADIOショート エリザベス・ブラックウェル編8】 · 2026-06-21
Tap an episode to open it in Wakatta and read along with the transcript.
Common questions
What level is COTEN RADIO?
It's advanced — around N1 — real native Japanese made for Japanese listeners, spoken fast and packed with history vocabulary. In Wakatta it comes with a synced transcript and furigana, so you can read along and tap anything you miss — which makes native audio far more approachable.
About the creator
COTEN RADIO is made by COTEN Inc., a Japanese company cataloguing world history. It's hosted by COTEN's CEO Ryūnosuke Fukai and Ruizhi Yang (“Yanyan”) explaining history to Kiyonori Higuchi, and it won the grand prize at the Japan Podcast Awards 2019.
Read along in Wakatta
Wakatta turns real Japanese podcasts into tappable transcripts — tap any word for its reading and meaning, and review what you save with the original audio.
