Episode 180 - Red Star Over Tokyo, Part 5
History of Japan
Isaac Meyer
4.7 • 790 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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This week: the Japanese left is relegated to permanent opposition status in the postwar period. How did the revolutionary moment come to this?
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| 1:01.7 | Go to audible trial.com slash Japan to claim your copy. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, Episode 180, Red Star Over Tokyo, Part 5. |
| 1:32.7 | So now we turn our revolutionary eyes fully to the post-war era, |
| 1:37.4 | when Japan rose from the ashes to become an economic power at a mind-bogglingly fast rate. |
| 1:43.7 | How would the Marxist left fare in this new |
| 1:46.5 | environment? The answer, somewhat paradoxically, was to become both politically irrelevant and |
| 1:53.6 | politically entrenched at the same time. But how could that be possible? Well, the answer to that |
| 2:00.8 | question lies in the little meeting held in 1955 and the political |
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