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- Apr 8, 20251h 25m
Remembering Kazuo Ishikawa and the Sayama Incident w/ Miho Kim
Miho Kim joins the show to discuss the life of Kazuo Ishikawa, the Japanese criminal (in)justice system, and the Buraku Liberation Movement. Kazuo was a man of the outcaste Buraku origin who was falsely accused of murdering a female high school student in 1963 when he was 24, a case known as the Sayama Incident. Following Kazuo’s arrest, the police lied to him and pressured him to confess to a crime he did not commit. As a result, the prosecutors sentenced him to death and then to a com...
- Feb 4, 20251h 44m
Happyend w/ Neo Sora
This episode contains spoilers of Happyend. Neo Sora joins the show to discuss filmmaking and radical politics. Neo is a Japanese-American filmmaker and Palestine solidarity activist based in Tokyo. His latest film Happyend was premiered at last year's Venice International Film Festive and Toronto International Film Festival, and is currently showing in theaters across Japan (The film is expected to hit theatres outside of Japan in 2025. Look out for screenings in your area such as this one i...
- Oct 22, 20241h 22m
Attack on Titan: An Imperialist Propaganda w/ Kazuma Hashimoto
This episode contains spoilers of the Attack on Titan series. Kazuma Hashimoto returns to the show to discuss Attack on Titan, a popular manga and anime series created by Hajime Isayama. This is the first installment of a mini-series on art and politics, where we will critically analyze the role of art in promoting Japanese imperialism and how we can revolutionize art in service of the people. Kazuma is a media critic, translator, and journalist. He authored many articles including “Attack...
- Mar 5, 20241h 27m
Vietnamese Migrant Workers and the Legacy of "Technical Internship" Program w/ Le Phuong Anh
Maya and Kota sit down with Le Phuong Anh to talk about the struggle of Vietnamese migrant workers and international students in Japan. Anh is a PhD student at the graduate school of Asia Pacific Studies at Waseda University, whose research interest is in Migration Studies and international student mobility, as well as Vietnamese middle skill migrant workers in Japan. She is the co-author of Against the ‘Japanese Dream’: Vietnamese Student Workers in Japan published in Asian Labour Rev...
- Sep 13, 20231h 33m
Multipolarity or Anti-Imperialism? w/ Politics in Command
Kota sits down with J from Politics in Command to discuss "multipolarity," a discourse which sees the existence of multiple superpowers as a positive development from the unipolar world dominated by the United States. We ask whether the politics of multipolarity is genuinely anti-imperialist or revisionist, an abandonment of revolutionary principles for reformism and class collaborationism. We critically analyze the overlaps between the reactionary ideology of Aleksandr Dugin and...
- Aug 23, 20231h 57m
Danchi, Social Reproduction, and the Politics of Urban Development w/ Marxist Disco
Felix a.k.a. Marxist Disco joins the show to discuss the wave of urban redevelopment happening in Japan right now. There are more than 200 buildings planned just in the Tokyo area including Japan’s tallest skyscraper on record, despite the chronic recession and stagnant growth rate the country has been experiencing since the 1990s. To make sense of this contradiction, we critically engage with Marxist geographer David Harvey’s work, particularly his theory of "spatial fix," and of the urban ...
- Jun 28, 20231h 32m
The Takarazuka Revue and Capitalist Urban Development w/ The BeruBara Tag Boom
Alex from the BeruBara Tag Boom joins the show to discuss the history and politics of an all-women musical theater based in Western Japan known as the Takarazuka Revue. We discuss the class politics of the Takarazuka Revue, particularly its ties to an Osaka-based private railway corporation called the Hankyu Corporation (now a subsidiary of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group), the development of railway infrastructure and the suburbanization of Osaka in the early twentieth century that crea...
- Jun 19, 20231h 26m
The History of Japanese Fascism: Part 1 w/ The Minyan
Kota sits down with Talia and Prez from the Minyan to answer the question: Was pre-WWII Japan fascist? This is the first installment of a multi-part series on the origins, political economy, and culture of Japanese fascism. Outro: Warszawianka in Japanese (ワルシャワ労働者の歌） Support the show
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This podcast seeks to challenge the commonly held assumptions about Japan as harmonious, homogeneous, and traditional by recasting its history as a history of conflict and change, as the history of class struggles, from anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, and intersectional perspectives.
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