Communist Attempts to Take Over Japan in the 1950s - COLD WAR
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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on how the Japanese Communist Party attempted to take over Japan in the 1950s in the aftermath of the American invasion, which liberalized the country.
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A real communist country can never hold up to the ideology because it creates a new aristocracy the rulers are the new nobility they're not equal to the regular people the regular people are present in comparison to the ruler even a policeman is like a lord compared to the regular people in particular military leaders are and I mean just look at Russia and China workers my ass the man that runs the factory is way more powerful than the man that works at the factory the general is more powerful than the man that runs the factory the chairman and the pilot bureau are more powerful than the general
Communist States are the same as ancient monarchy you've got the Stalin or the king and then you've got the high-ranking military and politicians the nobility then the soldiers did not and the regular soldiers the night for the officer and then you've got the high the Royal Court the pilot bureau the high ranking Noble hello ranking I will be like a local boss that was in charge of like say a private or a territory like in the Soviet Union they being charge of like say Georgia or one of the Warsaw pact Eastern European battle state now those are Vaseline Kings they even have vassal King the Warsaw pact ruler there's a man in charge of that country but Czechoslovakia a Poland or whatever Warsaw patch country but
I think that communism ought to be completely banned in the United States England and Eastern Europe and Japan and of course the Nazi party the same thing they just different size of the same coin
The Communist and the Nazis are different sides of the same evil degenerate coins
You should do a couple of videos a about the student protest of 1968 in Japan and about the Japanesse Red Army and United Red Army in the 70's. I feel like those would be a good follow up for this one.
I agree, I watch the movies
And about Japanese airlines 351 hijacking by the Japanese red army
Yes I hear about it sometimes but the mainstream media never really talk about it.
Why just about Japan? in 1968 Students all over the world were beaten down by Police
In Japan they had leftist protests throughout the 1960s, starting with the issue of US military bases in 1960, and then into the 1980s with the issue of building a new airport in Tokyo. In the early 1960s there were also minor rightists attacks (a particular one occurred when a newspaper published s cartoon mocking Emperor Hirohito, leading to a teenager attempting to murder the newspaper's owner).
Despite this, the ruling LDP (conservative/nationalist/monarchist) party retained complete control of the Government throughout this period. They won a majority in every single election between 1995-1991.
Interestingly the JCP is quite scornful of the CCP: “The Chinese leadership’s mistake is extremely serious. That action does not deserve the name of the Communist Party,” party chief Kazuo Shii said at its convention, held for the first time in three years, referring to Beijing’s expansionary activities in the East and South China seas."
All commies are same. Their rhetoric will chance as soon as (if ever) the US leaves Japan. I can guarantee a million buck on it.
It shouldn’t be a surprise a Japanese political group of any stripe disagrees with a Chinese political group of any stripe-the issue is that left wing groups (in South Korea and Japan) are likely of the position that they would rather try to balance issues between US and PRC’s interests and play them against each other in hopes of an India-like 3rd way, whereas the right wing party tend to prefer a hardline anti-Communist position with US backing. Thus, the right wing political parties in Japan and South Korea has had a massive head start on funding and organization while most left wing political parties are generally fledgling in nature and often struggle badly when they gain power-often allowing right wing parties to retake power pretty quickly. I don’t have a strong grasp of who the right wing party is in South Korea, but in Japan, it is the “Liberal Democratic Party” that is Japan’s dominant right wing party.
Hilariously, native Communist movements always end up prioritizing national domestic interests over worldwide revolution. All Communist nations (and movements within non-Communist nations) end up becoming National Bolshevik.
The Communist Party of China is CPC, and CCP is the Communist Party of the Philippines.
CCP accuses China of being a Chinese Social Imperialism and wants to rob China's assets in the Philippines. At the same time, it leads many Maoists to scold China. Now all Maoists hate China. On the contrary, many European Communist parties like Russia very much. Not long ago, I saw the Greek communist party claim that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was the help of socialism. But CCP supports gay rights. I like CCP's works of art.
6:00 were the Japanese Communists sponsored by Microsoft by any chance?
Oh boy, don't let the conspiracy theorists know about this!
Yo based Microsoft?
Top 10 anime twists nobody saw coming
@@TheCimbrianBull t
Wouldn't be the first time communist movement were sponsored by capitalist corporations.
in 1989 when Soviet Union collapsed, secret document from Sanzo Nosaka to Moscow became public. Nosaka blackmailed a few JCP members staying in Moscow in 1939 as a spay of the Japanese Government and they were all rounded up and killed by Soviet Communist Party. In 1989, Sanzo Nosaka was still alive and he was an honorable chairman of JCP. But once this document became public it became a big embarrassment for JCP and he was deposed permanently.
1991
The USSR collapsed in 1991 tho
thats nothing, Tito done same shit and shitone of Yugoslav pre ww2 leading members were killed by Stallin and him
@@hatsuhioki9361 Tito based???
@@sooryan_1018 based?
This is an icredibly interesting topic that I didn't even know existed.
Jcp: “we’re going have a Revolution!!”
McArthur: “imma end this mans whole career”
it sounds like a near miss only stopped my MacArthur, but in reality, obviously the US would have stopped any communist activity there that would have threatened them. its honestly surprising that the occupation forces didn't suppress the communists more given that this was Douglass "drop the bommbies on asian commies" MacArthur but who knows, he seemed to have a soft spot for the Japanese. maybe he admired their military's atrocious crimes.
MacArthur: we are going to bring freedom by opposing democracy😈”
Summed it up
@@mangonel what real impacts JCP bring to Japan ? You are saying bogus things, and I don't want to argue about that.
@@mangonel Oh, shut up, you just believe in shit things of your communism delusion. What ? Pawn and not politics thing ? Why McArthur gives a f*** about JCP. They are just the pawn of Stalin and Mao. You are talking as if JCP has contributed to the growth of Japan at that time. Now you don't want like what I am saying, how pathetic you are.
If we're going to talk about Communist parties that tried to seize power legally and peacefully you guys should also do episodes on the Italian and French Communist parties! They both gained lots of support in the immediate post-war years, and the Italian Communists continued to gain 30% of the national vote well into the 70s!
@D. O.
Italian Communist Party was against any violence, blaming them for terror years is ridiculous
Dont know if it's true but I hear Mussolini was in the communist partie before get kicked form it for being too "Bolshevist". and he start a new communist partie who didn't work and saw fascism idea (who never get finished to write) only because it's was collectivism as communism and the name is new so he can does whatever he want with specially revenge against his old partie.
@@redzeckez3346 1) Work on your English 2) Mussolini was a Socialist (not Communist) before World War I, but was kicked from the party during the war because he supported it. Supporting or resisting the war ultimately split the Italian Socialists. The "mutilated victory" was what drove him to the right and establish his fascist party.
Since 19th century. Kautsky, the Fabian Society, etc. have existed, so the path is nothing new. The JCP should just drop Lenism.
@@Patrick_3751 fascists are technically radical far left who embrace far right ideological principles and are a product of both as per a proper true political definition.
Japanese communist movements are a very interesting topic that doesn’t seem mentioned too often.
I’ve been having a look at some propaganda pieces from Japan emerging in the early 1900s and there are some amazing pieces from various socialist movements, candidates, clubs and such.
Link please.
The Communist Party of Japan once smuggled the arms of the Japanese army out to the Communist Party of China to fight against the aggression of Japanese imperialism. Later, China set up a monument to commemorate him
Now, the Communist Party of Japan hardly participates in any international communist activities.
Some people believe that this is because the division between China and the Soviet Union and China's mistakes have made the Communist Party of Japan sad. In fact, China is indeed a red madman at some time.
@@可爱包-c4v which monument?
Highly anticipated, always curious about this never really talked about in the Cold War era
my grandpa was a farmer and Marxist.
he said it was the disappointment in the government that converted him after war.
there must have been substantial number of communists in his generation because our neighbor was a full-blown communist too and they discussed things and stuff every night.
we even bought Akahata for a while and I remember reading a propaganda-filled shoujo manga in it!
Wtf is propaganda filled shoujou manga?
"Ah yamete Stalin senpai,not Infront of Lenin-kun"
@@sunshineskystar damn i might need some propaganda filled shoujo manga to feel something
@@sunshineskystar I remember the cute MC was blatantly dissing the imperial family of Japan
@@tetsu1000 based
@@thotslayer9914 some cold backcountry in Northeastern Japan
"Who mourns makes grief his master.
Who drinks makes pleasure his master"
- Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶)
who eats makes hunger their master
Who eats and has proper health care insurance, steals his master's second yacht.
What?
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That Kobayashi guy and me at the same page
Saw that blurred out vaultboy you’re instantly cooler than other history channels
Timestamp?
@@rifroll1117 0:03
Underneath the blue book? That
5:54 the host clearly says "bill of rights" but the subtitles says "bill of tights" LMAO
The cornerstone of thighdeology
Interesting! I always wondered about the JCP after walking past their large hq building in Shinjuku when I was on vacation in Tokyo
JCP: We want a peaceful communist takeover
Mao and Stalin: BOORRRINNNG
to be fair that just wasn't possible in russia or china, there was no developed democracy and the countries were full of elements that would and did murder communists as soon as they gained popularity
@James Davis what? No the USSR had forms of democracy
It was certainly more democratic than what came before or what came after
That's the thing about capitalism you can vote your way into it but you have to shoot your way out of it
@@afgor1088 I think you got that backwards because almost every communist regime was voted in/ or forced itself in a violent revolution while the citizens had to fight tooth and nail just to get any drop of freedom.
But never in mankind's history did capitalist countries had to build walls just to keep their citizens from escaping.
@@madlad8035 Thats the beauty of it. Capitalist countries build physical and metaphorical walls to keep out people escaping there from their slave-states, they have no need to prevent their own from escaping en masse to countries they themselves are either keeping down or collaborating with, its not a real risk for them outside of an influetial minority, such as Snowden, Dotcom, Assange, Caruana Galizia or the like.
Also curiously every time one of these modern day colonies starts having doubts about the benevolence of greed and corruption, there will be capitalists with guns in their hands to stamp it down.
@@pleopardi643 Can you give a real world example of this scenario in your second clause? Sounds like a commie campfire story.
I think its already mentioned but the stories of the student movement and the radical shift left in the form of the Japanese Red Army will def be a good episode to cover in the future
I remember watching a movie called "Carlos" (Starring Edgar Ramirez, highly recommended movie about a particular Terrorist) and they mentioned the Japanese Communist. What a wonderful period to cover!
The jackal
@@silverpairaducks Yes!
Go listen to Robert Evans' podcast 'Behind the Bastards' , the episode: The Golden Age of Terrorism. You would enjoy it a lot!
I'm suprised Japanese sweets aren't more globalised they are lovely 😋
Nah they suck
first they have to make it in the american market
Are you kidding me?! I LOVE Kasugai lychee gummy candy! They even sell them at HEB in Texas now. Greetings from Austin!
I read a manga called Ayako a few years ago that I just realised had a side plot based on this real story. Surprised me how much I already knew about this lol! Great video.
That’s not it either. DragonBall anime has something similar. The massive RED RIBBON army is supposed to subtlely mirror communism in Japan and how it got its azz kicked by an alien boy.
Oh that reminds me, in Kosaku Shima (a manga about a corporate employee in 1980s Japan) there are one chapter where he met a young employee that were active in communist organizing in which Shima disagree with him
IIRC, Ryosuke Takahashi, the author of Dougram, VOTOMS and other 80s mecha series used to say that his mother was a labour union activist, participating in the 60s struggle, and the Dougram storyline is heavily inspired by Cuban revolution.
And Ryoko Ikeda, author of Rose of Versailles also had some sort of connection to communist party. She even travelled to Leningrad while collecting material for Orpheus no Mado.
The joke about Krog was great! Haha
Pamphlets + Revolution = Korg
Can you do a video about the United Japanese Red Army? The one that killed each other off for not being Communist enough.
That's nuts
so no different than commies on internet
@@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 it not surprising yet crazy that they ideologically cannibalize.
Tipical comunism
Lol a common theme on the left it seems
Communists: were gonna start a Revolution in japan
Some high school kid with a wakizashi: no
Based
Asanuma was a nationalist, while Yamaguchi defended American imperial interests lol
@@boogaloo_weed ruclips.net/video/SgnxJ6JVbGM/видео.html
A good comunist is a dead comunist
Otoya Yamaguchi did nothing wrong!
The movement had other effects. For instance, there is a whole japanese marxist economic school with very interesting contributions.
I used to know about this when I was in school. Thanks for reminding me. I think the theorists' names were Ono and Saikin...I am not sure. But thanks for reminding me.
There was a game on the Playstation 2 that deal with a split Japan, democratic south and communist north. Americans and Soviets propping up their respective puppet states. It was a strategy game using primitive mechs and ground troops. Was called Ring of Red I believe.
A cool concept until they brought in walking mechs lol.
@@acapraichu4879 No that actually makes it even better.
@@acapraichu4879 What? Walking mechs make anything better. I was bored by "Pride and Prejudice" until they brought in the walking mechs. (Granted, they weren't that effective against the zombie horde, but still...)
Communist in postwar Japan: *exists*
Otoya Yamaguchi: so you have chosen… *Death*
Asanuma was not a communist and even supported Imperial Japan's war in Asia.
Yamaguchi killed him because he was a brainwashed US running dog
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Excellent video 📹
Never knew Communism existed in Japan 🇯🇵
There is communist party in all countrys. Even in usa.
so in early 1960, Okinawan communists had announced their leader was dead, I suppose to indicate they were no longer a threat, nothing to see over here
My Dad was Army MI, 1st enlistment after "peacetime" draft
(he had dropped a college math class so was not a full time student)
in Okinawan jungle he got a telephoto photo of the guy rallying his followers,
Not Dead
A very good presentation and a very interesting topic. I suggest that you provide a short bibliography or a list of books and periodicals used to create the episode so viewers can explore independently.
Talk about pacepa affair, he even published a book about his time serving under Ceausescu
I read it, as a romanian i was very excited to finally read the memoirs of a securitate general. It was clearly a propaganda piece, i doubt it had 10% truth in it. It is a piece of crap book, i would recommend people ignore the book, or at least not believe what is written.
@@ProPatriaRO maybe you are right but, still the desertation and activity is worth mentioning
@@ProPatriaRO also, I don't see on the channel, succesful western spyes stories that managed to run from soviet union
@@ggbpartystarter5958 what activity, except his debriefing by the cia, his usefulness was pretty much zero, he couldn't attend conferences or do anything because he was on a hit list until he died from natural causes. The romanian intelligence service built on the foundation of the securitate never forgot his betrayal, because he didn't betray Ceaușescu first, he betrayed his country, then Ceaușescu. Living conditions got WAY worse after his defection in 1979, we couldn't take loans from the west, the soviets hated our guts (mutual feeling) and Ceaușescu got so fucking paranoid, 10% of the population became informants for the securitate.
@@ProPatriaRO well then, why he was so well protected by the US that Ceausescu offered a bounty for his death, man don't be so defensive of the system, and don't pose as all-knowledge guy, the pacepa affair should have a chance, taking into consideration that we don't know more special service defectors to support the US
I heard one of the strike tactics of the JCP were that they kept working, but threw out the bosses, this way they couldn’t be pointed at for causing problems that would affect people since they are still working, but abusive or corrupt bosses wouldn’t get the money. I might be wrong though.
JCP sounds so interesting either way.
Your profile pic though
The irony of a video about communism having a paid sponsor in front of it will never not amuse me
Yes, it's not exactly the dictatorship of the proletariat.
here's a video about Japanese communism. did it win? well, here's a hint, this episode is sponsored by Bokksu.
There's no way he's an actual commie
Well, he never said he supported it.
...never heard that one before
The "peacefull revolution" was a failure as the party didn't seemed to take into account the inevitable violent response of the capitalist class.
The party should have been prepared for this response, by at least organising weapons caches or at least develop a small "action department", in case raising a "red guard" became necessary. Like if the occupied forces tried to step in....
I can’t overlook the irony of a video on Japanese communism being started with a healthy dose of Japanese capitalism.
Thank you for providing a snapshot of the labor struggle in Japan. You should also refer to Fusako Shigenobu and the Japanese Red Army's antagonistic struggle against the Japanese state. You can make a holistic history writing of the communist movements in Japan if you mention it in the next videos.
Then he has to start from the Meiji Era.
Good video, thanks for the share
Make s video about Stroessner's Paraguay...
Unless its about Cuba, Lationamerica isn't reelevant to this channel :(
JCP flag looks awesome
But Soviet anime, it was so close. They would have rule the world if they have anime
Cam you imagine Dragon Ball Z with a communist message
@@mangonel boko no piku would have never existed if the jcp took power, only boku no proletariat
@@mangonel my mistake, of course comrade, we
Anime under the JCP would be a lot different. At the very least animators wouldn't be severely overworked and underpaid as they are today.
@@mangonel nah you're thinking of capitalism
I hope communism in Indonesia gets some well-deserved attention as well. Indonesia's PKI had one of the largest members of communists in the world, yet communism has long been banned and censored since the G30SPKI communist purge.
"Purge"? That was quite a genocide. The most conveniently forgotten one in the 20th century.
@@stefanodadamo6809 I understand your point with regards to the scale of the destruction (which is on par with a typical genocide), but the purge wasn't a genocide because it wasn't specifically targeting a certain religious, racial, or ethnic group.
Yes, the Indonesian Chinese minority were under suspicions of having communist sympathies and that led to the death of thousands innocent civilians, including Chinese, but the devastation was not limited there. Indonesian natives suffered just as much brutal treatment, and the government to this day has not illuminated this dark part of the history.
@@stefanodadamo6809 if anything involves dead communist, it’s never a bad thing in the long run.
@@someonenew439 you should be grateful to Stalin and Mao, no one ever killed as many communists.
@@stefanodadamo6809 lol, nice.
That stock video you have playing in the 6tg minute is the Japanese welcoming home American troops from Korea who were stationed there and if I remember right that particular area is still home to the 187th rct and jdf infantry regiment
Yamaguchi took care of communism in Japan
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Very interesting segment. I been very curious about this for some time. Thanks for posting!
Instructions for the bell button are too complicated. Instead I shall plant corn in honor of both Mighty Bell Button and Glorious Leader.
Another great video covering Cold War history keep up the great work!
5:21 ahhh, here we go infighting again
Fascinating bit of Cold War obscura. And you have the best "Bell Button" riffs!
glad you enjoyed the episode!
This is actually really interesting. Ive never really thought about what communist movements in postwar Japan would look like. Heck, with the Americans being so involved, i figured a communist movement wouldnt exist.
The US threatening to use force against strikers is disgusting and depressing.
Hey, but they saved Japan from Communism.
Japan today is among the richest Countries in the world.
@@kayvan671 The Communists had 10% of the vote and most were against violent uprising. The only things Japanese were spared from were higher wage and the right to strike without threat of military intervention.
And the US could have pressured the Japanse governement to accept th demand if they didn't want an armed uprising.
@@kayvan671 Yeah and their working class literally kill themselves so their employers make money. If you believe in Democracy and you say this you are a hypocrite.
Yeah but that is what the US did to its own people back them.
Is that "Heroic march" Licensed? I always think its the most awesome world war 2 theme track so it cant be royalty free haha
2:40 Litteraly 1984
so true
I red one stupid comment under that video that winning by the rules if bourgeois laws is compulsory if party wants to be legitimate. Bourgeois do not protect laborers (workers). They protect capitalists, businessman. He said that revolution is illegal. It doesn't have to be legal. Workers return what belong to them. Surplus value. Make surplus value making manufactures common.
People of France do not want pension age to be increased. They make demonstration.
Government says: we voted, people want their retirement age to be increased.
What people feel? Peace? Furious anger.
It was much worse back then in Russian Empire.
So, was Lenin right? 100%
His scientific works are not getting old. They are relevant like never before.
Would be interesting to see a video on the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front
I've had opportunities to speak to members of the Communist party here. They're certainly a far more social democratic party now and when I asked why they didn't simply change their name to reflect this they said that if they did that they would lose the uniqueness of their name and become like all the other parties (Which in Japanese really do all sound and in policy, act alike) Sadly from what I've seen its mostly the older generation that vote for the JCP anyway and I would assume mostly because of the student movements. Interestingly an old professor of mine was active during those movements.
what about the younger generation are they like in the west more nationalistic or are they just neutral or even more socialist
@@abdiabdi3225 In my experience they're just completely apathetic to the political situation.
That kid at 7:53 Is freaking *awesome*
Imagine how much weirder anime would be.
Not much, there's anime like the King's Avatar from China. They don't involve politics in it at all.
Or even weirder hentai!
@@dragosstanciu9866 Marxist-Leninist hentai!
@@noodled6145 wasn't there a chinese anime about karl marx.that was pretty political.they made him good looking and romantic.
@@shazzatulanam6680 bishop bishounen Marx
It is worth noting that some extremely unpleasant people who should have been prime candidates for War Crimes trials managed to take advantage of the situation and "play the Red Card" and get themselves let off the legal hook. People like Kodama and Sasagawa of the pre-war far right organisations exaggerated the threat of a possible Communist takeover by offering the "services" of their very real gangster connections in order to fight this threat. SCAP leant a sympathetic ear to such talk and some rather unpleasant people were thus let off the hook. Communist threat there might have been, but it suited their purposes to exaggerate it. Of course, once the Korean War started, Japan became a front line allied nation in the Cold War. One Japanese politician at the time quite openly called it " a gift from heaven". Great boost for the Japanese economy, and of course communism became a dirty word in much of the world.
epic end, like for the video again!
I understand the economic laws set by the macarthur administration were aimed at boosting union bargaining power in order to increase salaries so that japanese workers could consume part of the hight supply of goods produced by the country... but the thing I don’t get is why the americans would allow laws increasing the strength of radical left movements and parties considering how strategical was the geopolitical position of japan at the time: right next to china and north korea
Mostly because any real communist insurrection would easily be crushed by the US occupation forces. If the Communists had gained significant power in Japan, the US could simply just dissolve the government. They started cracking down on the JCP when they began to prepare to leave Japan to focus elsewhere.
"We want you to be a part of our Communist revolution, コッムラデ"
I have to wonder sometimes what a world would look like where the US never interfered with the internal politics of allied countries.
Many examples throughout history of countries that weren't aligned with the 'communist bloc' of the USSR and PRC which were screwed over because they did something the US oligarchs didn't like.
The militant faction of the JCP: WE'RE GONNA STAGE A VIOLENT UPRISING AND TAKE OVER
The half-a-million US soldiers occupying Japan: You're gonna *what*
this reminds me of Ezo Union from 'The Place Promised in Our Early Days'
The background music is pointless and distracting.
0:42 Reminds me of how the Communists in the Philippines overthrew our beloved president Ferdinand Marcos , organizing an EDSA 1 revolution is not easy to do , so EDSA 1 was very well coordinated.
Do about communist uprising in Thailand
One more awesome video on a channel full of awesome videos, you guys are like an awesome video machine gun.
This gave me intresting idea for hoi4 mod lol
What about the Yamaguchi Katana incident?
Wasn't that a major blow to communisms reputation in Japan?
Kinda but Asanuma was a very controversial figure even amongst communists. I imagine about as many communists celebrated his death as nationalists did.
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asanuma is a socialist.
not communist.
We need a video of Douglas MacArthur and his rule of Japan as its only foreign Shugan.
That may be the best 'press the bell button' description so far. ;)
Good on japan for not letting insanity prevail
Fortunatly they didn't suceed. We even got an assasination caught on camera
Russians: Grim, fanatical revolutionaries aiming at an immediate and bloody revolution
Japanese: Polite, soft-spoken revolutionaries aiming at gradual and quiet revolution.
Thank you from Indonesia
Thank you for this video about Japanese communist history. I hear about it sometimes but I never realized Japanese society will accept the existance of this type of political party.
@totoki Agree! Its because when you got nuked twice by a more powerful country, your country is really a occupy country so you have to listen to your occupier and blend in. Japan economic stagflation is one of the price the Japanese people have to pay. Their wages are like minimum wages in some western countries.
Now they’re trying to ban anime and manga
This is pretty much the main reason why the Americans allowed Japan to stay a monarchy.
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thank god Japan didn't fell :) imagine a world with no - Nintendo, Tekken, Dark Souls, Sony and etc.
That and no sonic and anther country that wants to destroy the us what’s worse is it could lead to the destruction of Japan as a country especially if they attack the us which would of lead of the us nukeing Japan or just invading it and destroying the Japanese all together thank god that timeline didn’t happen and we are best friends with Japan
Big thanks to Otoya Yamaguchi, without you, I will never seen anime right now
Great episode
tl;dr instead of getting 8 hours work a day. They get assassinated and blackmailed by Yakuza. Also they did not doing a strong revolution, so this is what they get. 14-16 working hours a day, until death. Lastly developed Stockholm Syndrome with Yakuza.
Good topic. I think actual Communist Party membership in Japan is currently at around 270,000 (2020). but they get about 8% or so of the vote in national elections.
Japanese Communists: "We only want a peaceful transition of power away from capitalism to a worker-led communist state!"
Stalin: "Violent revolution. Now."
Japanese Communists: "Okee-dokee."
Japanese Communist Party is the only Communist Party that I actually like because they don't Japan to have nuclear weapons however, this doesn't mean that I agree with every single one of their policies
Otoya Yamaguchi is a hero
anyone calling a terrorist hero must be a terrorist himself.
@@deadby15 Lol he killed a communist piece of shit
@@762cat And the communists killed capitalist pieces of shit. See how everyone can play this game?
you admire the fascist japanese during ww2? who literally fought against the us and did
unspeakable crimes to china and other countries
hid ideology was a direct continuation of there's, as he said himself
they also "killed commies" far more than he did, as did Hitler and Franco
if you want to be edgy stop being a coward and just say you're a big fan of Tojo torturing us POWS to death and vivisecting chinese people
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1:43 to skip the ad
Allende tried in Chile. But capitalism didn't peacefully accepted.
And US education hides that fact. For example in an economic textbook it will point out the imperialist intentions of the soviets with the eastern bloc, but omit that Chile transitioned from socialism to laissez-fare capitalism because of a US backed coup caused by US sanctions, right afterwards.
@@RazgrizWing US education also hides the fact that the US supported democratic transitions post-Cold War across the planet. Mostly because, despite what the insane think, it focuses far more on the blunt and obvious shit happening in the world since there is so much to cover. Sorry, but your pet peeve is not so critical to talk about in the context of world history.
🇯🇵: * suppres political freedom *
🇺🇸: Nah, you don't.
🇯🇵: 🚩
🇺🇸: D'oh.
They were stopped by Fuze and the wolf brigade
Americans tried to take over Japan with christianity after ww2 (especially emperors family). They failed. But had sucsess in Shouth Korea.
@8:38 My first thought:
“Just look at those two GIs looking pressed all shit hot, standing there stylin and profilin like some real E-2 pricks!” LoL
Just like in Italy the allies only wanted democracy for some and the Soviet Union wanted a satellite state. It's sad workers gains were stalled for so long but post cold war we've seen workers take control through democratic means all across the world.
The PCI at least was able to make quite a mark. Preventing a lot of bad things from happening in Italy.
The real question is "Do you want your country who have making animes and Hentay be taken over by communism"?
Maybe.
chad yes
The commie party of Japan's flag looks like a modded MS Windows logo
As a Japanese, I miss the revolution mostly happened in 1947...
a better world is possible, dont give up hope yet comrade
@@nickb3164 thank you comrade. I will never give up having hope for a better world. I think we are facing a new wave of world revolution, and capitalism cant survive so long. The world is hopeful still.
Sorry for my bad English, I didnt study well at school.
Based Sanae Kochiya fighting for a better world
@@CandleTosser lol, can you read Japanese characters?
@@東風谷早猫 yes, I have a year in Japanese language from my college + I've been to Tokyo twice and I'm planning to work in Japan next year. Also a big fan of Touhou. I met ZUN! :)
1:54 *20th
7:54 big iron