I've been watching Hyouka (an anime about a Classic Literature club researching the history of their school), and the first few episodes involve piecing together how the main girl's uncle led a student protest in the 1960s. While that apparently was over a high school cultural festival, they bring up a wave of anti-government student movements in Japan around the time. I'm aware of 1968 being a wave year--the Prague Spring, Mai 68 in France, and the anti-war movement and race riots in America, but what were the issues in Japan that sparked youth dissent?
I've been watching Hyouka (an anime about a Classic Literature club researching the history of their school)...
Christian Rivera
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Anthony Taylor
Nice taste. Probably the best thing Kyoani ever did.
Austin Lee
Jace Turner
>anime
>not the original novels
Ayden Ross
The context of my post here is this
The song is about the singer, composer, and lyricist all walking home along and sad after the protests against the 1960 US/Japan Security Treaty were broken up (brutally) by Japanese police.
35+ civilians were killed and hundreds injured. Many more were imprisoned.
This time represented the height of the Communist movement in Japan.
After its initial defeat in 1960 though, the movement and social unrest lost its communist undertones and throughout the 1960's it spread to most of the young population in Japan.
They were all protesting what they saw as strict conservatism, corruption, and authoritarian government.
This lost Uncle was part of this group. Probably in 1965.
Jacob Hall
Jayden Flores
Thanks. A few followups:
1. Was the Japanese communist movement more sympathetic to the USSR or China? Or were there different factions favoring either of the two major communist governments?
2. How much success did the more moderate elements of the student movements later in the 1960s have in changing Japanese society? How were they affected by Japan's rapid economic growth in the post war era?
Mason Wood
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This details exactly what you are looking for with regards to your original question.
So yes, big protests happened on campus throughout the 60's.
The Japanese police were really brutal in cracking down on them though. If you got caught protesting you'd be sidelined from jobs and interviews... Everything.
Japan is a society that doesn't treat minority opinion well. Even to this day.
1.
I'm not exactly knowledgeable enough on this.
I'd say in the 50's they were more Soviet and the 60's more Maoist and since then they've been quite unique.
They did have some factions I know of. The head leader who took them to their peak before he was killed was part of the Soviet-leaning faction though.
2. Some. A moderate amount. Japan's autistic "forget the war even happened" conservatism slowly went away through the 70's-80's.
It was kind of like the US, although the movement was far less successful.
By the 80's-90's conservatism began taking a hold of Japan again. Nowadays it's just old people and autistic kids.
The growth made them very nationalist, less conservative, and quite supportive of LDP 1 party rule.
Communists always remained a force though. That's the main reason the center-left DPJ never has been a real opposition to LDP. Splitting the leftist vote.
Robert Gonzalez
If you want to see working-class life in modern Japan (and not muh anime), here's a great documentary from 2008.
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I love the points the former-protester makes.
"This is the capitalism you brought. Look at us. You said it'd make us rich, but then why am I dirt poor?"
Most Japanese live like this guy
Brandon Bailey
Whoops better link here
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Grayson Bennett
Probably the most powerful scene is with mushroom man
Christian Rodriguez
Tsuneo Mori did nothing wrong
Ryan Roberts
>anime
kys
Chase Powell
Okay
David Kelly
Word
Hudson Johnson
>Or were there different factions favoring either of the two major communist governments?
There was every brand of communist possible fighting each other. Hell they each had their own helmets so they could easily identify each other in protests.
Gavin Bailey
>1.
The Communist party stayed neutral after the Sino-Soviet split, but I don't know the position of the Socialist party. Some of their leader were very pro-China, though.
>1.
After the revision of the treaty was signed, the protests and strikes withered away. A few months later, the leader of the Socialist party was killed, and the Socialist party disintegrated because of bickering between the different strains of socialism and communism. It stayed the first party of opposition, but kept slowly losing ground and was never able to unite the left. In 1968 there were student protests against Vietnam, but nowhere near as big as the 1960 protests.
In 1972, there was the Asama-Sanso incident, an hostage crisis where members of the United Red Army purged 14 dissenters from their rank, then took an hostage and barricaded themselves in a lodge. The whole thing was televised.Then the Lod airport massacre, where the Japanese Red Army killed 24 and injured 78, and then Okinawa was given back to Japan. This pretty much destroyed any chance of large scale far leftist movements in Japan.
In 1993 the Socialists did manage to get in power after the bubble popped by creating a coalition of smaller parties. But that coalition didn't last a year, and after that it wasn't a slow decline, it was a free fall. The Socialist party now has two (2) representatives. The Communist party is growing because of the ecomic crisis, though.
So, to answer your question, I'd say they had little political success. It's more difficult to say how much, if at all, they changed society itself. Japan certainly didn't went through the same kind of societal changes the West did. No sexual revolution, young people are mostly just apolitical, the place of women in society did change slightly, but nowhere near as much as it did in the West. The growth certainly played a role: it's not easy to convince an university student to try to change the world when things are alright.
Grayson Wright
>the japanese (((media)))
Using /pol/ memes before /pol/, truly the yamato race is most advanced.
Adam Flores
muh working class manga
Asher Perry
>commie bum bitter because he wasn't capable of not getting completely fucked over by the bubble burst, leeching off his crazy semi-prostitute girlfriend
This guy is not working class, and most Japanese people certainly don't live like him. Capitalism did make him rich, he just wasn't able to save himself once recession hit. Blaming his personal failures on the system. Typical leftist behaviour.
Ayden Perry
Like half of the stories of this book are about aborted fetuses, or sick fetishism.
Pic related, great representation of the working class.
Ayden Green
Factory guy wanting quick disability bucks.
Julian Gray
Wait, that one is an accident.
Fuck this anemia.
Gabriel Martin
>the height of the Communist movement in Japan.
Jaxon Turner
Garbage anime for retards.
Daniel Sanders
Warms the cockles of my heart every time.
Isaiah Young
source on this pls
Carter Ross
28% of Japanese live below the poverty line.
Josiah Cook
What? It's closer to 16%-17%
Joseph Reed
Oppressive government policies and heavy handed police, and also hardcore communist groups stirring up disaffected
Elijah Flores
I'm sorry about your condition user. I wouldn't know how to live with shit taste.
Zachary Reyes
Its hilarious.
Literally /pol/ redpill shitposts: the manga.
Isaac Myers
that's nichijou and k-on!!
Christopher Lopez
cute marxists doing cute things
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also this is pretty interesting:
>One major intellectual current among the New Left was Anti-Japaneseism, which responded to the Old Left's Anti-Japanism. The Anti-Japanism theory posed that Japan's actions since the Meiji period had been tainted by imperialism, and a new regime was needed. Anti-Japaneseism radicalized this argument by claiming that the Japanese themselves are evil and all traces of Japaneseness must be purged from the "Japanese" archipelago. Proponents of this theory believe that the only way to redeem oneself from the "oppressor and criminal Japanese race" is to fight against all Japanese interests.[2] Anti-Japaneseism has been compared to anti-Semitism except that it is argued by members of the ethnic groups themselves.
Gavin Adams
Do you know where I can read the pushman and the pic you posted?
Carter Clark
I got those pics off of a thread on /a/ forever ago.
So far I haven't been able to find a english translation, so you'll just have to buy it over Amazon.jp and get someone to translate em for you.
日之丸街宣女子(おとめ) [書籍
Owen Martinez
Lefties are so cray
Chase Ross
I'm reading this and I can't tell If Poe's law or not.
Nicholas Ramirez
>Japanese nationalism and patriotism
wew lad
Landon Myers
you got a link
Alexander Ramirez
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Matthew Anderson
Hinomaru Gaisen Otome, there's only one chapter translated
Levi Rivera
thanks bruv
Andrew Brown
Hyouka was fucking excellent.
Thomas Murphy
Depends on your definition. Of course the government definition makes it look better.
Either way, it's been rising for years on end.