The Great Treason Incident - Anarchism in Japan
Submitted by Reddebrek on Aug 16 2018 23:34
A podcast episode on the Great Treason Incident and the early Anarchist movement in Japan.
Anarchy #05 1971
Fifth Issue of Anarchy Magazines second series, the cover issue is on Anarchism in Japan, in two parts.
Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan's First Anti-Imperialist Movement
This extended monograph examines the work of the radical journalist Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s anti-imperialist movement of the early twentieth century. It includes the first English translation of Imperialism (Teikokushugi), Kotoku’s classic 1901 work.
Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan
Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetus for future global progress. Acting outside imperial encounters, they initiated underground transnational networks with Japan.
Japan's 1968: a collective reaction to rapid economic growth in an age of turmoil
Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 23 2018 16:25
2015 paper written by Oguma Eiji containing lots of interesting historical information about the Japanese radical and student movements of 1968, including historical background and aftermath.
A Lifetime opposing the US military
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Dec 16 2017 01:12
by [b]Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson[/b]
Originally published by Uneven Earth at http://unevenearth.org/2017/12/okinawa/
There are eighty of us sitting down, linking arms, blocking the gates of a US military base. Private security guards are lined up behind us, while men in uniform film us from behind barbed-wire fences. Suddenly, Japanese police officers pile out of their vans in their dozens.
How to Strangle Anarchists
Submitted by Method of Freedom on Nov 17 2017 03:31
An account of the Amakasu Incident where Ito Noe, Ōsugi Sakae, and their six-year old nephew where murdered by police lieutenant Amakasu Masahiko, during the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Fukushima Mon Amour
Four literary and political essays on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011, following the earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan.
Anarchism in Korea: independence, transnationalism, and the question of national development, 1919-1984
Submitted by Anonymous on Sep 13 2017 10:38
A regional and transnational history of anarchism in Korea by Dongyoun Hwang. This book provides a history of anarchism in Korea and challenges conventional views of Korean anarchism as merely part of nationalist ideology, situating the study within a wider East Asian regional context.
1921: The Mitsubishi-Kawasaki Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Aug 13 2017 10:49
A dissertation about the largest strike in pre WWII Japanese history by workers at the port of Kobe. The strike was an attempt by the workers to supplant the authority of management and secure their own autonomy. The text also covers the industrialisation of Japan and the early development of the Japanese labour movement.
