Episode 468 - To Eat Their Own

Published: Jan. 13, 2023, noon

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This week, we\'re looking at the implosion of the Japanese New Left with a focus on the factional conflicts of the Zengakuren. How did a student youth movement end up divided into 20+ factions, the two largest of which engaged in a multi-decade war of assasination and street violence against each other? And how might that be connected to the general decline of Japan\'s left-wing opposition more broadly?

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