Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Kenji Hasegawa

   Pages 1-12

3. From Shinjinkai to Zengakuren: Petit Bourgeois Students and the Postwar Revolution, 1945–1950

   • Kenji Hasegawa

   Pages 13-49

4. ‘Impressionable Students and Excitable Koreans’: Internal Factors in the JCP’s Anti-American Radicalization, 1945–1952

   • Kenji Hasegawa

   Pages 51-87

5. Guerilla Warfare in Postwar Japan: The Ogōchi sanson kōsakutai, 1950–1952

   • Kenji Hasegawa

   Pages 89-124

6. Waging ‘Peace’ in Post-Occupation Japan: The Uchinada Base Protests of 1953

   • Kenji Hasegawa

   Pages 125-165

7. Postwar Departures and Reversions in Mid-1950s Japan: Chongryon, Okinawa, and ‘Bloody Sunagawa’

   • Kenji Hasegawa

   Pages 167-212

8. Back Matter

   Pages 213-218

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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 idea that ‘the postwar’ had ended. Attentive to the shifting spatial and temporal boundaries of ‘postwar Japan,’ it elucidates previously neglected histories of student and zainichi Korean activism and their interactions with the Japanese Communist Party. This book is a key read for scholars in the field of Japanese history, social movements and postcolonial studies, as well as the history of student radicalism.

• The History of Student Radicalism in Japan
• Kamikaze Radicalism
• The 1960 Anpo Protests
• Korean League in Japan during the Korean War Period
• Student Radicals and the Japanese Communist Party
• The Formation of Postwar Japan
• Korean League in Japan during the Korean War Period

• Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

  Kenji Hasegawa

Kenji Hasegawa is an Associate Professor at Yokohama National University, Japan. He received his undergraduate degree from Keio University and doctoral degree in history from Stanford University. His research interest lies in modern history and prior publications include Rediscovering America: Japanese Perspectives on the American Century, co-edited with Peter Duus in 2011.

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