When Tokyo was Socialist: the Story of Governor Minobe
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Japan is often described as a one-party, conservative state - and yet, for over a decade, a highly popular socialist led the government of Tokyo. Meet Governor Minobe Ryokichi.
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Hey 皆, thanks for watching this one! This video has had a longer gestation - research, writing, and editing all took quite a bit of time. There ended up being a lot more to cover than I expected, but I feel like I really learned a lot about Tokyo in the process. It's also been interesting talking to people who lived in Tokyo during the 60s and 70s and seeing just how well they remember Minobe - a lot of people have gotten a kick out of recalling Hashire Kotaro and Minobe's very memorable manner of speech. Younger people, on the other hand, generally have no real concept of any Tokyo governor from before Ishihara - not exactly surprising.
Anyway, hope eveyone enjoys this one - let me know what you think!
Damn, I love the idea of a city just shutting down the roads for a day and having street fair, that sounds amazing. Happy New Year!
Here in São Paulo, our main avenue, Avenida Paulista, is closed off to cars every Sunday. Walking around is lovely! (They'll also be doing the same thing for Liberdade, the city's foremost Japanese-Brazilian neighbourhood, starting tomorrow, October 1st 2023)
Babe, wake up. New Unseen Japan video just dropped 😍
I know it was just one section of the video but, omg, the Tokyo Garbage Wars sound like an absolute mess of a time period to have been alive for. Whoever was selling all those fly-swatters must have gotten quite rich!
I'd actually consided doing a whole video on the Yumenoshima fly plague and the Tokyo Garabage Wars before I started on this topic - proved pretty lucky that the subject was actually a big part of Minobe's story, too.
Enjoyed this and learned a lot of stuff I didn't know (Tokyo used to be a "fu"?!?!). As always really great job, enjoyed listening to this while doing a long run.
I don't know if it was Minobe but one of the biggest North Korea related things was Tokyo allowing the establishment of Chosen Soren as a de facto embassy and giving them the land-tax exempt status of an embassy even though it was not recognized as such by the central government. The move while generous backfired when Ishihara had the tax office claim unpaid back taxes on the property, which financially collapsed the North Korean citizens organization and led to confiscation of the building in Chiyoda-ku.
The nuances of the campaigns, the trash wars and everything else was all new to me though - I can see you went WAY deep researching this. Great job!
This was a very educational video essay. Thanks for puting your time into researching and educating us!
This was so good! Really enjoyed watching it and learned so much. Great stuff and keep up the excellent work!
Thanks for introducing me to Hashire Kotaro, what an absolute banger. Also, this was an awesome documentary that kept me entertained throughout my flight, amazing work!!!
So it's foreign influence that made Japan conservative. I wonder what weaboos gonna think about that now.
I think that’s great.
@@RHDCATADMIRER foreign influence is bad as long as it's a made up idea by fascists eh
Japan almost became Communist in the 60s but the US forced Japanese government to change its laws which made the unions powerless thus ending JCP powerful influence in the country.
@@SMGJohn Good.
@@RHDCATADMIRERNo, the coutry has been practically a one party state eversince with the LDP
what a well researched and in depth video! this must take so much time to find all that footage and all. the garbage wars and burning dream island was wild. thank you!
Thanks so much! Yeah, this was an especially difficult topic to find visuals for. Surprising how little imagery there is for all these major Tokyo history topics online, and the length of the video just made it more onerous. Think I ended up with something like ten gigs worth of reference imagery and footage in the end though, ha.
Amazing and educational video as always, keep up the great work!
Thanks! Will do!
it was very interesting, great video
Incredible historical essay video. One of the best, engaging I have ever seen. I have been sharing it all around. We are in the throws of organizing an historical otaku exhibition and such videos help trace the politics and policies of the Japanese welfare state and also shed light on the current re-armament and nationalistic slide.
Great video as always Noah!
This was amazing! Very well researched and the best video on this topic. Keep up the amazing work!
He sounds a whole lot more like a Social Democrat than an actual Socialist, but still cool I guess.
These are not necessarily mutually exclusive terms.
@robto you clearly have never heard of social democracy
@@bobafett_8922not only I've heard about it, but I actually belong to a social democratic party, looool. My initial post clearly shows that.
@@robto social democracy really boils down to "socialism (lite) for us, and ruthless capitalism imposed on the poor countries we exploit".
the word "socialism," outside of the united states where it is really a meaningless buzzword, is an umbrella term including communism, social democracy and everything in between. all the founders of social democracy considered themselves socialists, as do socdems in non-anglophone countries
learned a ton, thnx so much for the effort!!
Great Vid, I have a question will you ever do a video on Inejirō Asanuma?
Thank! Asanuma would certainly be an interesting figure to cover more in-depth - especially beyond just his assassination, which is the thing he's most known for at this point.
Great production!
thank you for this informative video
Amazing, such quality!
Glad you enjoyed it! Noah put a lot
of work into this one.
If you read a lot of Murakami books, socialism and communism sentiment is really big in the 60s and 70s.
Talk about how Japan politics got involved with the unification church!
Certainly something worth reporting on.
its super fascinating. It deals with the US's pardoning of war criminals, the yakuza, CIA, Abe's own grandfather in law too
Kenji Utsunomiya and Renho Saito really missed a mark..
Friend, thanks for this video. I seriously never heaed of Minobe until now and i am so happy to learn about him. I am usually wary of anyone associated with socialism due to It's inevitably linked with the far left but Minobe was such a moderate, level-headed, pragmatic and gebuinely good person. Also, he was incorruptible (something nost socialists struggle to be), he promited wellbeing and welfarw for vulnerable citizenry, he upheld promises and imoroved his constituency, and he stood up bravely to the far-right fascistic uktra nationalists of Japan. He was really an amazing man and i am not surprised it took a socialist from Japan to make me see tge ideology in a different light.
I remember, Mr. Minobe was the best Gouverneur after Word War II and I guess, he was the member of Scialist Party, but his policy was Social Democratic.
Socialism rocks
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Tokyo was socialist? Really? The means of production had been seized by the government and capitalism was no more? In Tokyo? Fascinating. Tell me more.
You realise in japan the surname comes before the forename? There's no need to call them the "younger" minobe because their first names aren't the same
They are both best known by their surname. We’re referring to them both by that name within this piece. So, not entirely sure what you mean.
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The video's indirect suggestion that the Japanese socialist movement was organic and not also a result of soviet influence is incredibly naive. The USA and soviets were heavily involved in foreign influence globally during that period.
The socialist movement was organic until the second war.
The USSR and CPJ had long severed ties before the 60s. Japans communists believed in the democratic process and hated Stalin's cruelty. They still believe in a democratic path to a scientific socialist Japan to this day.