Japan
Notes on an ongoing workplace struggle - Sphinx
An article by Sphinx addressing workplace activity and the potential for organising disparate individuals in a Japanese workplace. The article is distinguished by its acceptance of, and engagement with, real world conditions, and yet is able to maintain a light and transcendent tone. It is also articulates the necessity for workers to establish their own goals.
Japan’s worker co-operative movement into the 21st century
The pace of Japan’s economy is picking up again after more than a decade of stasis. During this long period of economic stagnation, the many personnel practices favoring employees known by the rubric “lifetime employment” have been subjected to increased criticism by pro-investor, neo-liberal voices.
The Depression and the liberation of Kamagasaki (1973-1978)
A pamphlet in Japanese and English about the Kamagasaki area of Osaka.
This pamphlet is presented in PDF format (56mb). We'd welcome OCRed versions of this pamphlet for dial-up and low-bandwidth users in either Japanese and English.
The Depression and the liberation of Kamagasaki (1973-1978)
A pamphlet in Japanese and English about the Kamagasaki area of Osaka.
This pamphlet is presented in PDF format (56mb). We'd welcome OCRed versions of this pamphlet for dial-up and low-bandwidth users in either Japanese and English.
Don't die silent like a Dog
「黙って野たれ死ぬな」船本洲治著作 - 資本主義、帝国主義や日常性活に反対する戦闘的な文集である。船本洲治は１９６０年代における革命的な労働者で、主に在日韓国人と一緒に活動していて、天皇の訪沖に反対して焼身してしまった。
Don't Die Silent Like a Dog - A collection of militant texts against capitalism, imperialism and everyday life by Funamoto Shuzou.
Shuzou was a revolutionary worker in the 1960s who worked mainly with exploited Koreans and eventually immolated himself in protest of the visit of the emperor to Okinawa. (all text Japanese)
1894-1931: Anarchism in Korea
A short history of anarchism and the anarchist movement in North and South Korea.
In the 2,000 years of Korean history there arose movements fighting for peasants rights and for national independence. Within these movements there were tendencies that may be seen as forerunners of modern anarchism, in the same way as we might view the Diggers in the English revolution.
1868-2000: Anarchism in Japan
A history of the once-influential anarchist movement in the Japanese Islands in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Shusui, Kotoko, 1871-1911
A short biography of journalist Kotoku Shusui, who helped introduce anarchism to Japan and was executed for treason.
Kotoku Shusui
Born 4 November or 23 September 1871 - Japan, died 24 January 1911 - Japan
Japan's prisons of torture
A Japanese town council has decided to introduce new rules allowing the jailing of householders who don’t paint their homes a chosen colour for up to a year.
The threat is a strong one for people who don’t like the preferred shade of green, for those incarcerated in Japan’s prison system life is systematised daily torture.
The Anarchist Movement in Japan, 1906-1996 - John Crump
John Crump's history of anarchism and the anarchist movement in Japan from the beginning of the 20th Century up until the pamphlet was written in the 1990s.
by John Crump, prefaced by the Anarchist Communist Federation
Anarchist Communist Editions ACE Pamphlet No. 8
Paper edition printed by Pirate Press (Autumn 1996). This Electronic Edition (Summer 1998)
Published by the Anarchist Federation www.afed.org.uk
