History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Episode 644 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 2

OCT 9, 202634 MIN

Description

Daidoji Masashi's trajectory from college student to terrorist has a lot to do with the student movement and the New Left in 1960s Tokyo. How did his time at Hōsei University set the idealistic young man on a collision course with the ideologies of "anti-Japanism", and from there to embracing violence as a tool of politics? Show notes here.