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, by NAGASAKI Hiroshi, WALKER Gavin
Historians often neglect Japan’s New Left protest movement in the late 1960s, but it was one of the largest in any country. Radical student activists brought the university system to a halt — and changed the future of Japanese politics.
Global surveys that look at the protest movements of (...)
, by KODA Naoko
A communist league of students founded in 1948 in Japan, the Zengakuren amassed power over two decades, creating tremendous tensions in the US-Japan Cold War alliance by challenging standard concepts of democracy, peace and the history of imperialism.
Conventional narratives of the Japanese (...)
, by ENAA GREEN Doug
The stories of Japanese communist Takiji Kobayashi represent the best of proletarian literature.
In 2008 one of the best-selling novels in Japan was an eighty-year-old novel: Kanikosen (Crab Cannery Ship) by the communist author Takiji Kobayashi. The book is a story about a crew of (...)
, by SHOMI Yoon
Shomi Yoon gave this talk as part of Marxism 2014 in Melbourne. Marxism 2015 will take place from April 2 – 5 .
“What sort of woman are you? Demonstrating when you should be at home looking after your children?” This was the question Sadayo Nakasone faced by the arresting officer for (...)
, by McNEIL Dougal
Dougal McNeill looks at the changing political situation in Japan in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The 2011 earthquake and tsunami brought untold devastation and loss to people in Japan. Close to 19,000 are dead or missing; 150,000 residents from the Fukushima area were (...)
, by MARTIN Alex
Compared with the West, and recently the Middle East, which has been swept by civil uprisings, Japan is not commonly known for having large-scale demonstrations or violent antigovernment protests.
But since March 11, when the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated the Tohoku region and (...)
, by ARITA Eriko, KAMATA Satoshi
Monday, Sept. 19, was Respect for the Aged Day in Japan. But on that sweltering national holiday, it wasn’t the heat that that drew tens of thousands of people to Meiji Park in central Tokyo, but their concerns for all the nation’s citizens, and others, who may face a threat from nuclear (...)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
The translation of this article into English has allowed Yohichi Sakai – an old Japanese friend of mine – to read it. He has kindly made a first set of precisions and corrections which have been introduced in this edited version. Sentences between [...] need, he feels, to be reworked further, (...)
, by SAKAI Yohichi
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Japanese Surrender and the Potential Elements of Social Explosion 1.1 Surrender of Imperial Japan and the U.S. Occupation 1.2 Potential Elements of the Social Explosion after the Japanese Surrender
2 U.S. Occupation of Japan 2.1 U. S. Initial (...)
, by SAKAI Yohichi
The following text was originally written with limited materials at hand at Paris in 1982, and I have made some stylistic changes to the original text - November 1991. For the final chapter, see The Last Vigor of the Japanese Postwar Reformist Workers Movement and its Impasse in the 1970s — (...)
, by SAKAI Yohichi
The following text was originally written as the final chapter of my 1982 article, “The Japanese Working Class Movement from the 1950s to the Middle of 1970s” [1] I have made some stylistic changes to the original text, and added the bracketed paragraph at the end of the section 7. — May 2011. (...)
, by Libero International
One of our intreped editors recently returned, with a running nose and a battered camera, from a weekend at Sanrizuka. There he took part in a support demonstration for the local farmers, and this is what he saw and heard.
Libero International
In the rolling hills of Narita, cabbages and (...)
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