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History of Japan

Episode 571 - The Revolutionary, Part 6

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8744 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week: Miyazaki's time as a politics reporter, the end of his reporting career, and his return to the family business. How did he go, in the span of five years, from a successful reporter to a wanted criminal facing police prosecution?

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It was a warm summer night in 1972 in the Ritsi Akasaka neighborhood of Tokyo when a member of

1:38.5

Japan's parliament made a suggestion to Miyazaki Manabo. That suggestion, in keeping with the dignity of Japan's foremost

1:46.7

house of the people, the representative organ, in which the sovereign power of the nation was

1:51.3

invested, was, of course, to go see a strip show. The diet man in question was Okuda Keiwa,

1:59.7

at the time a first-term representative from Ishkawa Prefecture,

2:03.7

having recently made the jump up from a position in the local prefectural assembly to national politics.

2:10.7

Miyazaki, of course, was there for work, doing his best to cover politics,

2:14.9

which then, and still now, is pretty hard to do if you are not part of the

2:18.9

more established journalistic set in Japan. But let me back up, actually, for a second. I should

2:24.7

explain why that's the case, which means it's time to talk about the Kisha Kudabu and what they have to do

2:31.0

with strip clubs. Now, that term just means reporters club. You sometimes

2:35.9

hear it call a press club, and the image it tends to conjure is some nice tastefully appointed

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