This week, we’re continuing last week’s footnote on the postwar ultraright. How did the fall of the Soviet Union affect the anti-communist focus of the extreme right? How has its rhetoric been shaped by an odd relationship with the left? And how does modern extreme rightism manifest in the ideas of men like Kobayashi Yoshinori and groups like Nippon Kaigi?
Sources
Jo, Gwan-ja. “The Revival of Japanese Right-Wing Thought and the Coincidental Collaboration of the Left and Right.” Seoul Journal of Japanese Studies 1, No 1 (2015)
Shields, James. “Revisioning a Japanese Spiritual Recovery through Manga: Yasukuni and the Aesthetics and Ideology of Kobayashi Yoshinori’s ‘Gomanism'”. Asia Pacific Journal 11, No 47(2013)
Sakamoto, Rumi. “‘Will You Go to War? Or Will You Stop Being Japanese?’ Nationalism and History in Kobayashi Yoshinori’s Sensoron.” Asia Pacific Journal 6, No 1 (2008)
Dr. Levi McLaughlin’s talk on Nippon Kaigi, put on by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
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