Description
This book offers a timely and multifaceted reanalysis of student radicalism in postwar Japan. It considers how students actively engaged the early postwar debates over subjectivity, and how the emergence of a new generation of students in the mid-1950s influenced the nationâs embrace of the idea that âthe postwarâ had ended. Attentive to the shifting spatial and temporal boundaries of âpostwar Japan,â it elucidates previously neglected histories of student and zainichi Korean activism and their interactions with the Japanese Communist Party. This book is a key read for scholars in the field of Japanese history, social movements and postcolonial studies, as well as the history of student radicalism.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. From Shinjinkai to Zengakuren: Petit Bourgeois Students and the Postwar Revolution, 1945â1950.- 3. âImpressionable Students and Excitable Koreansâ: Internal Factors in the JCPâs Anti-American Radicalization, 1945â1952.- 4. Guerilla Warfare in Postwar Japan: The OgÅchi sanson kÅsakutai, 1950â1952.- 5. Waging âPeaceâ in Post-Occupation Japan: The Uchinada Base Protests of 1953.- 6. Postwar Departures and Reversions in Mid-1950s Japan: Chongryon, Okinawa, and âBloody Sunagawaâ.



