Episode 567 – The Revolutionary, Part 2

February 28, 2025 Leave a comment

This week: Miyazaki Manabu completes his transformation from son of a yakuza boss to a committed member of the Communist party. After all, it turns out those two groups have a surprising amount in common…

Sources

Miyazaki, Manabu. Toppamono: Outlaw,, Radical, Suspect. My Life in Japan’s Underworld. Trans. Robert Whiting.

Images

A recruiting poster for Minsei, the youth league of the Communist Party, from the early 1950s.
Yamamoto Senji, the prewar communist whom Miyazaki Kiyochika had been friendly with. He was assassinated in 1929.
Taniguchi Zentaro, the communist party leader who recruited Miyazaki into the party. This is from 1969, about a decade after Miyazaki began expressing interest.

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