This podcast seeks to challenge the commonly held assumptions about Japan as harmonious, homogeneous, and traditional by recasting its history as a history of conflict and change, as the history of class struggles, from anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, and intersectional perspectives.
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Remembering Kazuo Ishikawa and the Sayama Incident w/ Miho Kim (01:25:44)
Miho Kim joins the show to discuss the life of Kazuo Ishikawa, the Japanese criminal (in)justice system, and the Buraku Liberation Movement. Kazuo was a man of the outcaste Buraku origin who was fals...
Happyend w/ Neo Sora (01:44:59)
This episode contains spoilers of Happyend. Neo Sora joins the show to discuss filmmaking and radical politics. Neo is a Japanese-American filmmaker and Palestine solidarity activist based in Tokyo. H...
Attack on Titan: An Imperialist Propaganda w/ Kazuma Hashimoto (01:22:23)
This episode contains spoilers of the Attack on Titan series. Kazuma Hashimoto returns to the show to discuss Attack on Titan, a popular manga and anime series created by Hajime Isayama. This is the...
Vietnamese Migrant Workers and the Legacy of "Technical Internship" Program w/ Le Phuong Anh (01:27:40)
Maya and Kota sit down with Le Phuong Anh to talk about the struggle of Vietnamese migrant workers and international students in Japan. Anh is a PhD student at the graduate school of Asia Pacific St...
Multipolarity or Anti-Imperialism? w/ Politics in Command (01:33:10)
Kota sits down with J from Politics in Command to discuss "multipolarity," a discourse which sees the existence of multiple superpowers as a positive development from the unipolar world dominated by t...
Danchi, Social Reproduction, and the Politics of Urban Development w/ Marxist Disco (01:57:37)
Felix a.k.a. Marxist Disco joins the show to discuss the wave of urban redevelopment happening in Japan right now. There are more than 200 buildings planned just in the Tokyo area including Japan’s t...
The Takarazuka Revue and Capitalist Urban Development w/ The BeruBara Tag Boom (01:32:14)
Alex from the BeruBara Tag Boom joins the show to discuss the history and politics of an all-women musical theater based in Western Japan known as the Takarazuka Revue. We discuss the class politics...
The History of Japanese Fascism: Part 1 w/ The Minyan (01:26:46)
Kota sits down with Talia and Prez from the Minyan to answer the question: Was pre-WWII Japan fascist? This is the first installment of a multi-part series on the origins, political economy, and cul...
The People vs. G7 w/ Migrante Japan (01:12:43)
Roger Raymundo, a member of Migrante Japan and co-host of Radyo Migrante re-joins the show to discuss the imperialist agenda of the upcoming G7 summit in Hiroshima, how it affects the workers, peasant...
Caste Oppression and the Buraku Liberation Movement w/ Buraku Stories (01:13:13)
Niki from Buraku Stories joins the show to discuss the history of the struggle of a discriminated outcaste people in Japan known as Burakumin. The term “Burakumin” originated in the early twentieth c...
Nikkei Organizing w/ Miya Sommers, J Town Action & Solidarity, and Nikkei Uprising (01:32:34)
Kota joins an online forum “Nikkei Organizing: A Community Discussion on Organizing Strategy and Developing Revolutionary Movements” held via Zoom on November 13, 2022. The event was hosted and moder...
Alisa and Hye Sung from Deprogramming Imperialism join the show to discuss Abe's legacy and his ties to the Unification Church, and review everything that's transpired since his assassination by Yamag...
The Anti-Vietnam War Movement and the Red Army Faction w/ Alex Finn Macartney (01:38:44)
Alex Finn Marcartney joins Kota to talk about the history of the anti-Vietnam War movement in Japan and the legacy of the Red Army Faction or the Sekigun-ha, the mother organization of the Japanese Re...
Mlitant Labour Unionism and State Repression in Kansai w/ David McNeil (01:09:01)
David McNeil joins Kota to discuss militant labour unionism and state repression in the Kansai region of southwestern Japan. We specifically discuss the struggle of truck drivers who work for small-t...
The History of Revolutionary Feminism and Women's Liberation Movement in Japan w/ Setsu Shigematsu (01:55:18)
Setsu Shigematsu joins Kota to discuss the history of revolutionary feminism and women's liberation movement in Japan. We first discuss the history of feminists in pre-WWII Japan such as Kanno Sugako ...
Revolution Goes East: The Impact of the Russian Revolution in Japan w/ Tatiana Linkhoeva (01:48:12)
Tatiana Linkhoeva joins the show to discuss her book Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism. Some members of the Japanese ruling class reacted to the Russian Revolution with skepti...
On Intermediary Exploitation w/ Ken Kawashima [Patreon Preview] (00:08:59)
In this preview of a patron-exclusive episode, Ken Kawashima discusses intermediary exploitation (中間搾取, chūkan sakushu) as a form of capitalist exploitation that indirectly exploits the labour power o...
The History of Filipino Migration to Japan w/ Migrante Japan (01:54:06)
Kota is joined by Roger Raymundo of Migrante Japan, a regional chapter of Migrante International, a global alliance of grassroots migrant organizations of overseas Filipinos and their families. We beg...
The Proletarian Gamble: Uno Kōzō's Theory of Crisis & Korean Workers in Interwar Japan w/ Ken Kawashima (02:26:13)
Kota is joined by Ken Kawashima, author of The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan and translator of Theory of Crisis by Japanese Marxist economist Uno Kōzō. We begin the interview b...
Ghost in the Machine: The Emperor System & Anti-Revolutionary Thought Policing in Interwar Japan w/ Max Ward (02:15:37)
Kota sits down with Max Ward to discuss his book about the Japanese state’s effort to suppress revolutionary movements and ideologically convert their participants through the Peace Preservation Law i...
Solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance w/ May Shigenobu (02:29:11)
Kota sits down with a Palestinian-Japanese journalist Shigenobu May to talk about Palestine. May is the daughter of Shigenobu Fusako, a former member of the Japanese Red Army and a political prisone...
Women in the Japanese New Left w/ Chelsea Szendi Schieder (01:47:17)
Kota is joined by Chelsea Szendi Schieder to discuss her latest book Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left. Women in the Japanese New Left played a vital role in building up th...
The History of Marxism in Japan w/ Gavin Walker - Part 2 (00:55:23)
Against Japanism presents Part 2 of an interview with Dr. Gavin Walker about the history of Marxism in Japan, focusing on the postwar period starting in the late 1940s. First, we discuss the reason ...
The History of Marxism in Japan w/ Gavin Walker - Part 1 (01:11:49)
In this two part series, Kota sits down with Gavin Walker to discuss the history of Marxism in Japan. Instead of simply narrating the facts of this history chronologically, we focus on particular the...
A Fundraising Appeal from Pato-chan (00:19:56)
This mini-episode features a message from Pat (also known as Pato-chan), a trans woman from the Philippines and a former migrant detainee living in Japan, who is raising funds to support herself durin...
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