Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan

• Main Author: Hasegawa, Kenji (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Directions in East Asian History,
• Subjects: Japan-History.; Imperialism.; Korea-History.; History, Modern.; History of Japan.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Korea.; Modern History.

This book offers a timely and multifaceted reanalysis of student radicalism in postwar Japan. It considers how students actively engaged the early postwar debates over subjectivity, and how the emergence of a new generation of students in the mid-1950s influenced the nation's embrace of the ide...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. From Shinjinkai to Zengakuren: Petit Bourgeois Students and the Postwar Revolution, 1945-1950
• 3. 'Impressionable Students and Excitable Koreans': Internal Factors in the JCP's Anti-American Radicalization, 1945-1952
• 4. Guerilla Warfare in Postwar Japan: The Ogōchi sanson kōsakutai, 1950-1952
• 5. Waging 'Peace' in Post-Occupation Japan: The Uchinada Base Protests of 1953
• 6. Postwar Departures and Reversions in Mid-1950s Japan: Chongryon, Okinawa, and 'Bloody Sunagawa'.