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Following the March 2011 tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked with surprise on how thousands of demonstrators had flocked to the streets of Tokyo. But mass protest movements are nothing new in Japan and the post-war period experienced years of unrest and violence on both sides of the political spectrum: from demos to riots, strikes, campus occupations, faction infighting, assassinations and even international terrorism.This is the first comprehensive history in English of political radicalism and counterculture in Japan, as well as the artistic developments during this turbulent time. It chronicles the major events and movements from 1945 to the new flowering of protests and civil dissent in the wake of Fukushima. Introducing readers to often ignored aspects of Japanese society, it explores the fascinating ideologies and personalities on the Right and the Left, including the student movement, militant groups and communes.While some elements parallel developments in Europe and America, much of Japan's radical recent past (and present) is unique and offers valuable lessons for understanding the context to the new waves of anti-government protests the nation is currently witnessing.
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This much-needed book addresses a range of groups engaged in revolutionary politics, radical protests and counter-culture. In doing so, it provides a perspective on Japanese society that is rarely covered in English . . . Dissenting Japan is a necessary text, and a compelling intellectual call to
arms. -- Japan Times
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William Andrews is a writer and translator in Tokyo. He has lived in Japan for ten years.
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You get the sense that the writer is not much of a dissenter himself, but has chosen dissent as a topic of interest like others might choose collecting spoons or porcelain figurines. His writing reads accordingly.
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Following the March 2011 tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked with surprise on how thousands of demonstrators had flocked to the streets of Tokyo. But mass protest movements are nothing new in Japan and the post-war period experienced years of unrest and violence on both sides of the political spectrum: from demos to riots, strikes, campus occupations, faction infighting, assassinations and even international terrorism.This is the first comprehensive history in English of political radicalism and counterculture in Japan, as well as the artistic developments during this turbulent time. It chronicles the major events and movements from 1945 to the new flowering of protests and civil dissent in the wake of Fukushima. Introducing readers to often ignored aspects of Japanese society, it explores the fascinating ideologies and personalities on the Right and the Left, including the student movement, militant groups and communes.While some elements parallel developments in Europe and America, much of Japan's radical recent past (and present) is unique and offers valuable lessons for understanding the context to the new waves of anti-government protests the nation is currently witnessing.
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This much-needed book addresses a range of groups engaged in revolutionary politics, radical protests and counter-culture. In doing so, it provides a perspective on Japanese society that is rarely covered in English . . . Dissenting Japan is a necessary text, and a compelling intellectual call to
arms. -- Japan Times
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William Andrews is a writer and translator in Tokyo. He has lived in Japan for ten years.
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Hardcover : 256 pages
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Jun 03, 2020Zach rated it liked it · review of another edition
this turned out to be a little more relevant than i would have liked. a long and frigid postmortem for the corpse of radical japanese leftism.... with the depth of a wikipedia article. i understand that the basic framing device -- the author's argument that japan isn't the passive and peaceful country most americans dream it to be -- is definitely important, but it does nothing to give the protracted and lifeless writing here any significance.
that's not to say this wasn't massively informative, honestly i got exactly what i was looking for: a base understanding of the history and culture of japanese activism, just not much else. ever since i watched mishima debate a bunch of disheveled college aged marxists, smoking and holding babies and screaming death threats as they demanded revolution, i just can't stop noticing the profound shadow of movements like zengakuren all over the country. pops up on tv, in movies, passing comments from my coworkers. i was really hungry to learn about that precise history and i got what i wanted.
but that history is also deeply pessimistic and not encouraging. japan seems to have gotten much closer to revolution than a lot of places, at least it seems so from the sheer scale of mass communist action, but watching each spark of leftism begin to turn inward, cannibalize itself, die out under capitalists and infighting and the appeal of Owning Your Own TV Set just really stinks. i get worried watching the same action unfold in america, on the other side of the world and in a different timezone for which i am often asleep or at work.
this never suggests much in the way of concrete reasons or discernible facts as to precisely how these movements sputter out and burn. there's some simple theories and suppositions that are easy to agree with, but i often found myself questioning why and how a lot of these things were happening. i can't say for sure if it's really the book's fault: there may just not be an answer at all. but it makes me concerned all the same -- if there is no answer, if there is no solution or hope for a sustained leftist movement, what are we supposed to do? i don't know and this book doesn't either, but i guess at least i know about ~something ~ or other a lot more than i did when i started. i also have a much longer reading list, and, totally unsurprisingly, a deepened obsession with the theatrical melodrama of revolutionary women in pain and crisis. shigenobu fusako new diva legend, nagata hiroko cuck your husband in the name of the advancement of the proletariat and then kill half your militia DRAMA !!! (less)
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Jun 06, 2021Viola marked it as to-read
Shelves: nationalism, mutual-aid, environment, http-www-solidarityforeverbook-com, feminism, direct-action, cinema-video-television, music, education, antiwar
Note: Currently June 2021 locals who do not want the Tokyo Olympics held during Pandemic are mobilising.
Dissenting Japan | A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima
Following the March 2011 tsunami and subsequent Fukushima nuclear crisis, the world media remarked with surprise on how thousands of demonstrators had flocked to the streets of Tokyo. But mass protest movements are nothing new in Japan and the post-war period experienced years of unrest and violence on both sides of the political spectrum: from demos to riots, strikes, campus occupations, faction infighting, assassinations and even international terrorism.
Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima by William Andrews is the first comprehensive history in English of post-war political protest and counterculture in Japan, as well as the artistic developments during this turbulent time.
It chronicles the major events and movements from 1945 to the new flowering of protests and civil dissent in the wake of Fukushima. Introducing readers to frequently overlooked aspects of Japanese society, it explores the fascinating ideologies and personalities on the Right and the Left, including the student movement, militant groups and communes.
While some elements parallel developments in Europe and America, much of Japan’s radical recent past (and present) is unique and offers valuable lessons for understanding the context to the new waves of anti-government protests the nation is currently witnessing.
Major areas covered:
– Post-war period, including the occupation, Bloody May Day and other incidents
– Anpo (US-Japan security treaty) 1960 protest movement
– Emergence of the Japanese New Left
– Student movement in Japan, including Zenkyōtō, Zengakuren, and the campus movements at the University of Tokyo and Nihon University
– Sekigun-ha (Red Army Faction) and Japanese Red Army
– Radical and militant far-left factions such as Chūkaku-ha and Kakumaru-ha, and interfactional fighting (uchi-geba)
– Sanrizuka (Narita Airport) protest movement
– Anti-war (anti-Vietnam War) movement in 1960s and 1970s, including Beheiren, Anpo 1970 and Okinawa
– East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front
– Ainu activism
– Yukio Mishima
– Japanese ultra-nationalism and the far Right, from post-war to minzoku-ha and New Right, and hate groups
– Avant-garde and underground arts, including 1970 World Expo, Shūji Terayama, Genpei Akasegawa and Hi-Red Center
– Hippies and communes in Japan
– Aum Supreme Truth
– Yasukuni Shrine controversy
– Anti-nuclear power protests after Fukushima disaster in 2011-12
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Mar 20, 2018Ietrio rated it did not like it
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Shallow journalism. Too many words. Too few information. And lots of drama added for drama's sake and maybe to compensate for the lack of sources. (less)
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