This week: Miyazaki Manabu’s dramatic departure from the Communist Party, as his faith in the revolution wanes. What does a…
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This week: Miyazaki Manabu completes his transformation from son of a yakuza boss to a committed member of the Communist…
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This week’s footnote: the first of two parts on the postwar extreme right. This week, we’re mostly focusing on the…
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This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: the Occupation comes to an end, but what happens next? This…