Samurai thread Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:08 No. 1855 [Last 50 Posts]
Was the Meiji restoration and "restoring power to the emperor" a good or bad thing in 18th century Japan for the peasants? It marked the upper class revolution that caused the samurai feudal system to transition into a capitalist system. (Which ultimately turned into a racist imperialist empire that tried to invade and oppress all of its neighbors in Asia in a sort of fascist system, and as Japan lost the war the people starved and suffered greatly.)
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:08 No. 1858
>>1857 Well, before the Finno-Korean Hyperwar, everyone on Earth was black.
It wasn't until the old world was shattered with nuclear hellfire that melanin-deficiency began to afflict people.
Korea and East Korea (now Japan) were some of the single blackest, darkest places on the planet, but obviously that changed after the hyperwar.
There was then a concerted effort over the course of thousands of years for the melanin-deficient to exterminate the melanin-enhanced individuals within Japan, and the East in general.
These are some of the very last melanin-enriched East-Asians ever witnessed, the Imperial Japanese finished the job once-and-for-all, thus eliminating the Kuronipponjin.
Oh, also it's a shitty old photograph.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:09 No. 1862
>>1855 Well it goes as it goes.
Capitalism is a more progressive historical force over Feudalism.
As Feudalism was over the Slave-Empire.
And as Socialism will be over Capitalism.
Meiji restoration was in a sense 'bad' for the peasants as Capitalism deprecates their class as the Proletariat begin to rise,
but beyond a certain point Proletariat life is superior to peasant life,
and the peasants in Japan lived particularly rough with the autism of the samurai.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:10 No. 1868
>>1855 >It marked the upper class revolution that caused the samurai feudal system to transition into a capitalist system Wrong take. The samurai were the upper class in this period, and the Boshin war which preceded the Meiji restoration, as well as the Satsuma rebellion which is traditionally seen to mark the decline of that class, was led on both sides by the samurai. The Meiji restoration was not so much a social revolution as it was a political conflict between two regional and ideological sections of the samurai over who which of them would get to lead Japan through its transition into the global capitalist economy. Because at this point that transition was already well under way and had been inevitable since the moment the emerging capitalist economies to the west began expanding abroad.
The consequences of the Meiji restoration then is not so much whether Japan would undergo that transition or not, or whether the samurai class would decline - because that was gonna happen either way, and there's no saying whether a reformed shogunate would have done something similar - but rather what role Japan itself would have in that transition and what its position in the world would be afterwards. Historically, that position was as the sole, sovereign industrial power in the orient.
So the question is not so much whether the Meiji restoration was good or bad for the peasants, but whether it was better for the common folk of a country in this period to be a subject of a sovereign and industrial region of the capitalist world economy, or a colonised or exploited one. The answer to that is fairly obvious.
>Which ultimately turned into a racist imperialist empire that tried to invade and oppress all of its neighbors in Asia in a sort of fascist system, and as Japan lost the war the people starved and suffered greatly Unless you're a hardcore historical determinist, that outcome was not prewritten by the events of the Meiji restoration, and it's a silly way of thinking about history. There are a lot more factors involved in what happened than simply this or that emperor coming into power a hundred years ago.
>I just found this photograph btw. Samurai didn't look nearly as impressive as I thought they would, and that hairdo is "objectively ugly." That's because the image of samurai that you have been given is that of the armoured, fighting samurai, back when this class was expected to form the main fighting force of an army, and deliberately pictured as people with great power and martial strength, whereas what you see in the picture are regular people with archaic - and to you, silly - dress and hair.
As for "ugly", that is subjective. To them and many others in that society, that hair and dress had special significance and marked them as members of a social elite. I'm sure some of them would have found your hair equally ugly.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:10 No. 1869
>>1866 I can't seem to find any good Marxist works on Japanese history, but it seems difficult to find any manner of Communist Japanese literature in English.
It seems what there is in Japanese is woefully undertranslated to English.
There are only even two Japanese authors on the Japanese marxists.org lang-section.
The Chinese language version of the site actually has a few more, though some of the Chinese translations of Kobayashi also seem to have Japanese in them and alternative page-to-page.
I think the first two deal more with theory and history, but much of the works from the Japanese are proletarian literature.
In Japanese:
Tosaka Jun:
https://www.marxists.org/nihon/tosaka/index.htm Yamakawa Hitoshi:
https://www.marxists.org/nihon/yamakawa/index.htm in Chinese:
Kobayashi Takiji:
https://www.marxists.org/chinese/reference-books/kobayashi-takiji/index.htm https://www.marxists.org/chinese/reference-books/kani-koosen-2009/index.htm Tokunaga Sunao:
https://www.marxists.org/chinese/reference-books/tokunaga-sunao/dyz1928-1929/index.htm Maybe you can work from these to scour for English lang translations?
The English marxists.org doesn't even have any of the Japanese authors, so I assume these would not be easy pdfs to come by even if translations exist.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:10 No. 1872
>>1857 It could either be because
1) The photograph and the lighting makes them look darker
2) They were more exposed to outdoors and sunlight back in those days constantly so there skin tanned over constant UV exposure
3) Were Okinawan or some shit
4) Mixture of all the above
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:11 No. 1878
>>1855 I better not catch you talking shite about mah nigga Hijikata.
Fucking Satchou bastard.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:11 No. 1882
What's the true story behind this picture?
>>1879 Yeah, it's the faces, I think. I don't know if the women are European or Japanese.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:11 No. 1884
>>1874 >>1875 >February 26th Incident and Kita Ikki Contrary to what might be promulgated in contemporary historeography with relation to the attempted coup, there was no particular unique quality to the coup of the 26th of February. A small and particularly well-acquainted junior officers corps was gleaned from imperial staff college in an atmosphere of profound fear for the possibility of Japan falling into the sphere of influence of European powers as a suzerainty (being a colony was not likely). What ended up occurring was a common manifestation of a powerful factional trend in the military of Imperial Japan within which the totalizing philosophy of Ikki was popular - a buildup in popularity largely predicted by the enacted prescripts of the 'Imperial Rescript on Education', which itself was created in the wake of The Freedom and Peoples Rights era. Popular conceptions of a national identity were constructed on the basis of anti-western Imperialism, common identification with Asian states and peoples, and a collaborationism between labor and state-backed firms, national and privatized. Examples of the relative friendly demeanor towards central planning and Marxist trends in economics comes from their implementation in the Manchurian expansions (particularly in the state credit backed Mantetsu railway company). There was very little to differ on between the military hardliners and the class of Japanese bourgeoisie in the Zaibatsu, but for that the necessary social control needed to enact major imperial restructuring in Asia would impair the capacity of domestic capital to freely reproduce itself.
The idea of a 'progressive' imperialism at work is most definitely a contemporary reading, as there was certainly no real progressive element to economic vassal-ization or being subject to gross and flagrant imperial aggression. The instances of critique of Capatalism that seem so particularly genuine is in the (recently rehabilitated amongst leftists) abhorrence of the characteristic 'decadence' of 'western capitalism', which threatened the proper organization of the state, its institutions, and the general social polity (known by the amalgam term of the Kokutai). Differentiation between the ideological prerogatives of the military factions, civilian ultranationalists, liberals, and other contemporaneous groups in Imperial Japan (particularly from late Meiji onwards) is definitely a meaningful and worthwhile undertaking, but in making more than tactical or analytical distinctions, we should not take the 'progressive' imperialists at their word. It was simply vying for a seizure of power by a hegemonic military structure, and they were overtly and passionately anti-communist in any and every meaningful capacity.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:12 No. 1887
>>1883 >>1885 On point.
Kenzaburo Oe wrote a book (divided in two parts) about him, and it's impossible to find in Japan AFAIK because fascists threatened his editor.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:12 No. 1890
>>1883 Would you mind elaborating on that?
Whilst lurking /pol/ I've seen posts highlighting how this bloke "saved" Japan from communism, but in typical /pol/ fashion it was mostly vague.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:12 No. 1895
>>1894 The samurai hairdo wasn't supposed to look cool, it was to make it easier to distinguish them from the commoners, just like monks who shaved their heads.
>The truth is those were just people belonging to a class with the monopoly of armed force and many of them were piss poor. Same for samurai. Many of them received only a meager salary eroded by inflation and had little to no chance for a promotion. Those a bit more fortunate made money thanks to their artistic skills, like Hiroshige.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:12 No. 1896
>>1895 I re-read my own post and it comes across as confusing. In truth, I wasn't pointing to the haircut, more to the general fact they didn't look like some kind of Hollywood supermacho depiction. Also, I was talking about western knights throughout - the Lord of the Rings reference it's an obvious nod to western fantasy
- and how they would have looked equally scrumpy except for the last sentence that you qouted where I'm referring back to Japanese warriors, even though the same concept could apply to western knight, thus the understandable confusion.
Btw, in the last centuries of their existence, plenty of merchants were effectively richer and more influential than them and often unattached, wandering warriors would be hired as bodyguards by them. Also, people with money could buy influence and corrupt functionaries and even though they were officially lower in the social hierarchy, they were immensely better off.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:13 No. 1901
>>1890 In the aftermath of WWII, much of the old left in Japan found itself born again through a combined opposition to US Imperialism. 1960 was a very important year, as there was intense debate over the Anpo Treaty. The treaty itself was originally ratified in 1951, but proposed revisions in 1959 would have allowed for the construction of more US military bases on the Japanese mainland. All of this was being done in the name of "mutual cooperation and security" in East Asia, with the United States as its caretaker. The leftist opposition that Inejiro Asanuma was a part of pointed out that this revision clearly called into question Japan's sovereignty, and held mass demonstrations against its inclusion. This was a big deal: trade unions, student organizations and political parties alike were united under the one goal of stopping this treaty from being signed.
Inejiro Asanuma was a member of the Japan Socialist Party, which in the 1958 general election had gained a large enough majority in the National Diet to stop Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi (Shinzo Abe's grandfather) from amending Article 9 of the the constitution, which would have otherwise greatly expanded the powers and capabilities of the newly formed JSDF (albeit under US tutelage). The Japan Socialist Party was social democratic in nature and thus popular with a certain segment of the voting population, and overshadowed the Japanese Communist Party, who had experienced setback after setback during the immediate post-war American occupation. Inejiro Asanuma became a high profile figure in the Anti-Anpo movement, and was outspoken in his support for Maoist China. This angered right wing groups like the Great Japan Patriotic Party, of which Otoya Yamaguchi was a member.
Here's the thing, though: Otoya Yamaguchi assassinated Inejiro Asanuma months after the Anpo Treaty was ratified. Nobusuke Kishi bamboozled the National Diet into voting for the treaty
while they were still debating it. His home as well as the National Diet would later get raided by Zengakuren, who, among thousands of other demonstrators, were justifiably angry at his blatant manipulation of the democratic process. For many radicals in Japan, the Anti-Anpo Movement was a testament to the impotence of party politics, and also served as a catalyst for their very own New Left. Another thing to consider is that material conditions were on the rise, which had given way to a renewed sense of nationalism among others. This bolstered right wing groups, who placed a hard emphasis on militarism and would have stopped at nothing to preserve the Chrysanthemum Throne, the oldest monarchy in the world.
/pol/tards love to ham up this assassination as if it single-handedly saved Japan from a communist revolution, when that could not be further from the truth. The revolution was already dead; killed by liberals just a few months prior, who have more or less ruled Japan under a "one-and-a-half party system" since 1955.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:13 No. 1906
>>1905 Uh, strange. In my year in Japan I didn't really notice. In my country is like 39% so it's way more common.
In Japan I've only see older men with male pattern baldness, while here is common even among younger people.
>t. started suffering from male pattern baldness at 19 >>1904 He was a visionary.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:14 No. 1913
>>1909 >>1910 Oh right, that guy.
Complete fucking nutjob.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:14 No. 1921
>>1918 Nazis only like Japan because anime and because Japan, to be frank, is a non-entity in the stage of world politics.
For them it's a quirky sight, a curiosity and somewhat like a cute pet they don't mind having around. If Japan were the size of China and had its steadily-growing amount of power, they wouldn't be so kind towards it, by which I mean "at all".
And much like Germany's alliance with Japan was purely out convenience rather than genuine racial affinity (will they ever shut up about "Honorary"?) and had to be constantly micromanaged ("Nazi Racism Toward the Japanese" goes into this), so is their "love" for Japan, which seems to have its most apparent use as club for bashing other non-white races over the head.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:15 No. 1928
>>1927 Bushido was used to indicate the qualities that a true warrior was supposed to have, but of course each samurai interpreted it differently. The sengoku era was full of betrayals, turncoats and less than honorable individuals, but with some notable exceptions. Hell, Tokugawa won the battle of Sekigahara thanks to a traitor who switched side DURING the battle.
During the edo period samurai didn't see much figthing and they started to stagnate as a class while merchants and artisans became richer and more prominent, Bushido became a way for samurai to remind to others and to themselves that they were still better than everyone else.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:15 No. 1929
>>1924 But you'd think that a group so apparently committed to the cause of white supremacy would have some reservations towards an entertainment medium like anime (and some indeed do; seeing them fling shite at each other over the subject isn't too rare).
I'm sure places likes /pol/ and the like have their fair share of people that are just trying to be edgy but, still, it's a little too prevalent to not at least raise some eyebrows.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:15 No. 1933
>>1924 A lot of neo-nazis fantasize about the late Showa era for the same reason they fantasize about 1980s America.
>>1929 You're right; Showa nostalgists are fervently anti-otaku while often being otaku themselves.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:15 No. 1934
In the years 1894, 1900, and 1925 - The Japanese imperial government promulgated a series of laws known collectively as the ‘Peace Preservation Laws’. These laws were principally concerned with frustrating the organization of union, socialist, anarchist, and communist organizations for threatening the ‘Kokutai’.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:16 No. 1937
>>1934 Damn thats really intresting. Can you go a bit deeper as too what exactly was done to sabotage the communist party?
Also japanease commie infighting seems to be a meme but was it really that serious ?
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:16 No. 1938
>>1855 >I just found this photograph btw. Samurai didn't look nearly as impressive as I thought they would, What the fuck kind of retarded statement is that? That photograph looks like every depiction of every samurai ever. If you want photos of samurai in armor search for that.
>and that hairdo is "objectively ugly." Retarded take.
That's a very ambiguous and open ended question.
>It marked the upper class revolution that caused the samurai feudal system to transition into a capitalist system. Why are you calling it the samurai feudal system? Have you read anything about this subject. Is the fucking Daimyo and Shogun system. Samurai are just high ranking soldiers.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:16 No. 1939
>>1856 Not just could: did on a regular basis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiri-sute_gomen They enforced this rule on a British merchant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namamugi_Incident and the British blew up a whole town in retaliation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Kagoshima Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:16 No. 1940
>>1939 They also tested their swords on random people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsujigiri Tsujigiri (辻斬り or 辻斬, literally "crossroads killing") is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during nighttime.[1] The practitioners themselves are also referred to as tsujigiri.[1]
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:16 No. 1941
>>1937 >what was done to sabotage the communist party I can talk about two specific respects in which the movement was externally hindered.
1. Threatening or even SEEKING TO ALTER the existing state structure and institutions, as well as the nebulous ideology that backed the monarchy as symbol and origin of state power, known collectively under the term 'Kokutai', was made a punishable offense of up to ten years hard labor. This was 1925, in the Taisho-jidai, and a cap on the events of the Anarchist-Communist cooperative agitation that had taken place since the 'Freedom and People's Rights' movements of the turn of the century - capping freedom of speech, assembly, and economic redress of grievances. These legal justifications were a post-hoc resolution of what had existed as material policy for many years before, that of violent coercion or defections. The existing structure of the Empire was most definitely aggressive and exploitative (internally and in foreign policy), but the faux anti-imperialist rhetoric, combined with rapid expansions of extralegal force and threat against intellectuals and agitators, led to a precipitous drop in open identification with the party. This certainly muted its effect in the turbulent Taisho democratic era, and the work of notable figures in Marxist economics and other adjacent figures in 'proletarian'-linked social spheres did much to exacerbate the general political campaign against the communists/anarchists.
2. Foreign interference in the party policy and affaires of the early JCP. The clandestine and furtive union of left factions that comprised the early JCP fielded a great wealth of theoretical contribution and debate on the conditions and requirements of socialist agitation in Japan happened to be, unfortunately, contemporaneous to the late 1920's consolidation and unified line of the pre-eminent international organization for communist parties, the Comintern. The demands of the fraternal socialist forces, predominantly the Soviet Union, to exemplify a line of thought that would place prominence on good relations with the CPSU and USSR, rebuke ideas of immediate organization or seizure of state institutions or power, cultivate additional 'right' thought and theory did much to drive a wedge in the party and jeopardize its already threatened legitimacy. The precarious nature of attaining monetary or materiel backing assured that the Koza-ha (Soviet backed faction, 'lecture' is its name) would predominate over any opposition group and could effectively control party politics. The expelled or disillusioned persons of the opposition faction Rono-ha (labor-farmer) were marginalized, purged, or left the party. This was primarily over a simple distinction of what form of capitalist property relations constituted the Japanese Empire at that time. The JCP, under Koza-ha, continued to suffer reprisals by the Tokkō, a special police auxiliary, but emerged from the war as perceived vindicated by the general malaise with war and militarism. Unfortunately, the Korean War came and further demands placed on the party by the Soviet Union and China to actively disrupt the American war effort by sabotage had failed to account for the atrophy of previous policy in the party. Already suspect by American occupation authorities, despite professed legality, the JCP would suffer schism and debilitating loss of confidence in its lack of independent program and reliance only on the legitimacy of Empire-era dissident status. This gradual effacement plagues the party even today, as the party does little meaningful work beyond cursory education.
Sorry that took very long to write. The party does good work, too, but times are bleak.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:16 No. 1942
>>1939 I want to caution, in the case of the two Edo-era incidents, that you too closely associate them with the general trend of the time, being that archival records and data are decidedly incomplete before the late 18th century. For the incidents you've brought up, it is important to mention the context of location (Satsuma Domain) and the time (1862). The promulgation of the unequal treaties of opening, which allowed western powers trading rights in select economic ports as well as preferential purchasing power/subsidies/extraterritoriality profoundly threatened the economic exclusivity previously enjoyed by Satsuma and Chōshū Domains, who, as primary conduits for Rangaku-related materials and western imports, controlled a great deal of influence that was suddenly threatened by Tokugawa Bakufu releasing all previous trade regulations. This, combined with the nationalistic uproar that perceived subjugation by Western powers (akin to the dreaded Opium war) was a profound threat to national sovereignty and the solvency of the existing polity. This lead to the emperor, largely a figurehead, to issue mock-abrogation of the treaties and to try to interfere with Shogunal policy. This was the basis of Sonnō-Jōi (Revere Emperor and Expel Barbarians), a nationalist-populist movement which helped catalyze the incident you're talking about.
Interesting fact is the British would then ally with and supply materiel to the Satsuma-Chōshū forces, the supposedly nationalist faction, against the Tokugawa Bakufu, who was aided by the French Empire.
>>1940 This 'Tsujigiri' was more a relic of the warring period, Sengoku, than of the Edo period. The social relations that persisted, at least in their orientation, were much different in the context of the Meiji Restoration (1867) than in the end of this period of time (~1602). Samurai, as a class, began to disintegrate with use of military modernization, though many of the samurai-class would feature prominently in Meiji oligarchy (1867-1889)
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:16 No. 1943
>>1942 >I want to caution, in the case of the two Edo-era incidents, that you too closely associate them with the general trend of the time, being that archival records and data are decidedly incomplete before the late 18th century. I dunno what this statement is supposed to mean. Are you saying that they didn't enforce Kiri-Sute-Gomen before that time?
Good information, and I'm aware of a lot of this stuff and more because I was once writing a story that partly took place in Japan during these years. I even have this obscure Harvard Press book on the period because I wanted to get some detailed information about the relations with France and England that weren't available online.
Nah they just killed him for disrespect in that particular moment.
Also second incident was a direct result from the first and the limeys stopped shooting at them like fish in a barrel as soon as they paid up:
>Satsuma however later negotiated and paid £25,000 (which they borrowed from the bakufu and never repaid, due to the fall of the bakufu in 1869 and its replacement by the Meiji administration). They never produced or identified Richardson's killers, but despite this, the reparation received was enough to obtain an agreement by Britain to supply steam warships to Satsuma. So yes the surrounding historical context is interesting but both of the incidents are straight forward. Japanese feudal culture practices KSG on anybody, be they peasant or foreign merchant. Brits aren't about to let savages kill one of theirs without one-upping them.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:17 No. 1951
>>1855 Yes, it was a progressive revolution from above, which is also characteristic to Russia, of Peter the Great and Catherine.
Japan, eventually, turned into what it was under the influence of European Imperialism.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:17 No. 1952
>>1869 >The Chinese language version of the site actually has a few more, though some of the Chinese translations of Kobayashi also seem to have Japanese in them and alternative page-to-page. A major medium of Marxist and Western concepts in China were translations from the Japanese, and the other one was translation from the French, as somehow the French Chinese diaspora was at the center of leftist movement.
Mao himself read Japanese translations and authors early on.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:17 No. 1953
>>1929 Most anime have escapist, idealistic elements. It arose after the 60s which had the fall of the leftist student movements, with help from the CIA, and the fall of Japan's cinema industry. With Japan's suicide-inducing work and education culture, a lot of the settings of anime take place in some idealist high school setting before they have to enter the "real" world. It's no wonder it's pretty popular there and even among the rest of the capitalist world. The characters are usually super powerful, popular, have a beautiful, unrealistic romantic interest, or have a harem. Most of these are made by disillusioned Japanese Gen Xers, but obviously things haven't changed there so new creators keep the genre evolving with "isekai" getting really popular in the early 2010s. It's a word that literally translate to escaping to another world. This is in contrast to someone like Miyazaki, whose as a former Marxist reflect environmental justice and opposition to imperialism. So a lot of these same reactionaries praising the system also feel the need to consume anime for escapism.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:17 No. 1954
>>1953 Yeah I've noticed all these isekai lately, and so many of them literally involve the death of the main character.
They exist in the normal neoliberal hegemony world, but then they fucking die and everything's better cause they gone to fantasy land.
Fuck if that isn't the most miserable message imaginable: death is the only true escape.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:18 No. 1965
>>1857 The emperor and the samurai were actually black men, but the man doesn't want you to know that. It's the greatest story never told. Muhammad Fard talked all about this back in the day.
t.hotep gang
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:18 No. 1967
>>1890 Teenage fascists on /pol/ are stupid and poorly-read when it comes to history. The anti-intellectual character of their ill-defined ideology leads them to unwittingly say and do shit that benefits undermines the causes they allegedly support. /pol/ Nazis and alt-right guys in general are provocative without being subversive, as their beliefs don't actually threaten established power.
Part of why I detest "trigger the libs" grifters like Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder so much is that they portray themselves as counter-cultural renegades when in reality they're just defending the socio-economic status quo of neoliberal capitalism.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:18 No. 1968
>>1966 >Most Ghibli shit is escapist feel good stuff Except it isn't? Isekai does not equal escapist. And just because some of them are more children oriented and thus more innocent (like Totoro) does not make this a universal rule.
>all fictional stories are escapist Yeah, no. This is the kind of PoMo shit I detest, stop using words you don't understand.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:19 No. 1972
>>1969 https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/2020what_jcp.html " JCP IN FIGURES
Membership:
Approximately 270,000 in 18,000 branches across the country.
Newspaper:
Newspaper Akahata (Red Flag) was launched in 1928 and is now published in both daily and weekly editions, with a combined readership of about 1 million. It has correspondents in 5 cities around the world: Beijing, Hanoi, Cairo, Berlin and Washington, D.C.
Diet (parliament) members:
12 seats out of 465 seats in the House of Representatives (in the 2017 general election, the JCP received 4.4 million votes, or 7.91%) 13 seats out of 242 seats in the House of Councilors (in the 2019 election, the JCP received 4.48 million votes, or 8.95%).
Local Assembly Members:
The total number of JCP members in local assemblies is about 2662 (January 2020). "
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:19 No. 1975
>>1973 Well Japan's laws due to their Fascists never really losing power are heavily anti-Communist.
Any party that would have an explicitly 'non-revisionist' visible party-line would immediately get broken up, its members imprisoned, and its associates surveilled.
Even as it stands, this Communist party that is basically SocDem gang (though Japanese Marxist tradition is weird and kind of its own thing) is heavily surveilled by the government.
The surveillance is not only an in-the-open fact, but is legitimized by Japanese law, as the Communist Party has 'ties to the terrorist North Koreans' by virtue of being Communist.
Many members of the party are quite well versed in theory, and certainly attempt to do what they can in the context of Japanese law; they aren't not 'real Communists.'
They aren't actually spineless SocDems who have faith in Bourgeois Democracy and Capitalism, but they do suffer a bit of 'CPUSA Syndrome' in that even gaining enough power to build up their power is highly illegal.
This results in the party being perceived as 'weak,' because it is weak; it's still the strongest party in the country, it's still serves as the best congregational organization for people with actually revolutionary views.
In any case, actual on-the-ground moves by the party are not the sort of thing to be easily viewable on baka gaijin English language clearspace.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:19 No. 1980
>>1968 >And just because some of them are more children oriented and thus more innocent (like Totoro) does not make this a universal rule. What are you talking about? The only ones that aren't are Grave of The Fireflies and The Wind Rises.
>Yeah, no. This is the kind of PoMo shit I detest, stop using words you don't understand. I think you are the one who doesn't understand words friendo. Use a dictionary.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:19 No. 1981
>>1980 >The only ones that aren't are Grave of The Fireflies and The Wind Rises. <What is Nausicaa
<What is Princess Mononoke
Just stop
>Use a dictionary unironically no u.
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:21 No. 2000
Should this thread go on
>>>/anime/ ?
Anonymous 21-12-20 05:22:21 No. 2006
Mods please move this thread to either
>>>/edu/ >>>/hobby/ or
>>>/anime/ Comrade 21-12-20 05:26:04 No. 4102
Reposting from the
>>>/anime/ Q&A thread
I have a question about Jiraiya Gouketsu Monogatari. Naruto made the character pretty well known and popular, however the original story is pretty old, and I was wondering how well known the character was in Japan prior to Naruto's popularization of him.
Besides the 1921 silent film (video 1 related)
I found the following references in media before Naruto got published
- Jiraiya- A character that appears in the novel " Jiraiya Ninpocho " by Futaro Yamada, which began serializing in September 1964 . A character with the name of Tsunade also appears in the work.
- Jikaminari也- 1966 publication of Toei of special effects era feature film " The Magic Serpent hero of". Tsunade also appears.
- Commander Jiraiya- A character that appears in the TV anime " Invincible Steel Man Daitan 3 " broadcast from June 1978 to March 1979 .
- Magnetic Raiya- The main character of Toei 's special effects drama " Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya, " which was broadcast from January 1988 to January 1989 .
- Jiraiya (read "Jiraia") The character in the Hudson game "Far East of Eden" series and the main character of the first game " Far East of Eden ZIRIA ". Characters with the names of Tsunade and Orochimaru also appear in the work.
- Jirayan- A character that appears in the TV anime "Karakuri Kengoden Musashi Road" that was broadcast from October 1990 to September 1991.
- Ninja Black Jiraiya- Ninja who appears in Toei's special effects drama " Ninja Sentai Kakuranger "broadcast from February 1994 to February 1995. A setting called the descendant of Jiraiya who appears in "Jiraiya Goketsutan".
Anonymous 07-09-21 17:25:37 No. 6994
Excellent Russian video analyzing the Dzaibutsu of Imperial Japan and how they brought about militarism in the country with economic analysis. This is part 2 of Imperial Japan from a dialectical analysis
Японский фашизм: дзайбацу by
Держать Курс
Part I:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3pEf8SVNqI Умри за Императора. Капитализм с самурайской спецификой.
Anonymous 22-09-21 17:52:32 No. 7247
Minimata and the tragedy of the death factory covered by Suren
BadComedian 3 months ago (edited):
''Начал подготовку к обзору фильма ЧЕРНОБЫЛЬ и посмотрел картину про ещё одно загрязнение природы, а именно - про слив ртути и других вкусностей в залив Минамата.
Контора Chisso годами отравляла территорию Японии и уничтожала/уродовала живность, включая людей, несмотря на протесты. Фильм пытается раскрыть данный инцидент от лица уставшего от жизни журналиста Юджина Смита, который сделает исторический снимок "Томоко Уэмура в ванне" (искать в гугле), чем ещё больше привлечёт внимание к похуизму конторы Chisso.
Гнетущая атмосфера, поломанные судьбы, измученные дети и взрослые - всё это в фильме есть. Есть и история самого Юджина Смита, роль которого исполнил Джонни Депп. Хоть я и люблю этого актёра, но мне кажется, что на роль Юджина Смита он не очень подходит. Хотя опять же, имя Деппа привлекает внимание к самому фильму и это замечательно.
К сожалению фильм не расскажет о связях Chisso с якудза и не будет детального раскрытия давления на представителей протеста. Фильм задевает эту тему по касательной, а столько всего интересного в этой истории есть. Да и тему с фильтрами не особо раскрыли: контора Chisso поставила очистительные сооружения и заверила, что теперь вся вода, что попадает в залив, настолько чистая, что её пить можно! И её выпил сам глава компании… Но выяснилось, что пил он заранее налитую чистую воду, а фильтры вообще ничего не очищали.''
Если соберётесь смотреть, то в дополнение посмотрите ролик Сурена на эту же тему.
1. Фильм "Минамата" на ivi (в отечественном переводе "Великий") -
https://www.ivi.ru/watch/250070 2. Ролик Сурена -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQGiG_Yg8fE&ab_channel=SUREN Anonymous 05-10-21 02:54:31 No. 7853
>>6994 >discusses the navy heirarchy link on the topic of the Japanese Navy - their doctrine, the Kantai Kessen (Japanese Decisive Battle Doctrine)
Drachinifel as a channel isn't 100% accurate (limited by English/Western sources) mostly in regards to the Soviet and Russian Navy, but outside of that is quite accurate and nuanced in his discussion.
I liked this comment joke
>IJN: "Can't I kessen?" <USN: "No." Anonymous 08-10-21 00:18:38 No. 7977
>be me, ancient japan >loyal samurai to shogun Narutomon-no-Tamagochi bitchu kakarot >im ordered by shogun Narutomon-no-Tamagochi bitchu kakarot to challenge his rival, daimyo Netoraremon doraemon (childhood name: Bukakemaru) of the Burrito Clan to a duel after learning that the daimyo's retainer did not bow the correct number of times to Narutomon's 14th concubine, the beautiful Sakura-no-Onshore isa hore >knowing that this is a suicide, my brother the famous sword duelist ishakarunarumarubarugaruharu intervenes and begs lord Narutomon he should go instead. >He thinks that, due to both being successor states of Hanguk, they'll easily find some common ground for trade >after Traversing the sea of japan,32 farms, and 502 mountains and valleys we arrive at their mountain palace >Upon arriving, a court official of prince han-Ji-an says im required to strip butt naked and fight Dae Kok-in, one of their strongest wrestlers >Exhausted from the strange Baekje-Goguryeo practice, I'm finally served some food >A raw ear of rice, a bowl of water, and 2 grams of pork >They act like it's a lot of food and expect me to praise their culinary arts >I'm punched directly in the face due to smiling the wrong way >I'm punched again, directly in the face due to crying the wrong way >I send a letter back to the shogun, the letter reads as follows *fuck it let's conquer them* >5 years pass, we got the shogunate seal of approval >we engage at the battle of the Sanbadeamigo river,500 of us against the entire Baekje-Goguryeo kingdom >shaman-god-queen Yamato-hi-Momose-Nagatoro-Ooki-na-Manko-Chinpo-wo-Tabete prophetizes a decisive victory as long as the warriors' arrows and spears are smeared with urine >we fail to urinate on all the arrows in time and lose the first battle, but manage to control a coastal village. >10 years pass, the shaman-goddess-queen has another vision in which a white snake god from Mount Katsumatsuratsu, claiming to be the son of Okuninushi, says that their victory will only come if she gets impregnated by a humble samurai and give birth months later >after we successfully impregnated her, son Chinpo-wo-Tabete is born months later. >we win the next battle, but withdraw from Korea after holy ming dynasty emperor dong bong hears of our invasion and demands shogun Narutomon to stop it. >ask about my brother, the news strikes me >he slew his opponent at the wataboto pass using the Housing Bubble Technique, thus inspiring the founding of the Kabushiki-Ryuu sect of Buddhist sword monks >however, ishakarunarumarubarugaruharu later commits seppuku for having soiled his sword with 3 drops of blood instead of a perfectly clean cut, assured that the years of practice went for nothing, a disgrace for his family name. >586 ashigarus follow their leader into death, this leads directly to the collapse of the kakarot shogunate 20 years later, when I arrived. >mfw
Anonymous 15-10-21 16:26:50 No. 8118
>>8112 Bushido on paper is "noble" and all but in practice see the posts in
>>8098 That said, here is a Japanese book on Bushido but it's in Russian so you'll have to use a translator
Imperial 4chan Anonymous 03-11-21 15:43:16 No. 8547
>>7977 Its time for a story
>emperor fōr-channū gets old and has to follow the shitoposto traditions by retiring to an old cave in the mountain of kekyama where he has to practice the old jutsu of masturbating with only two fingers for 14 years in order to gain the blessing of the kami of basedness, his title as emperor is later passed to his brother redditu, marking the beggining of the hōmō periode, famous for multiple suckings of the cock of china. >emperor redditu gets triggered by the rasengan clan because they paid him 69419 rice bags in tribute instead of the funi 69420 number, insults the diplomat of rasengan for this shamfur dispray, and orders him to commit sodouku 69420 times to retain the honor of his family, or have them all canceled from japan. >a giant civil war occure as many clans can no longer handle the emperor's bullshit. >then finally, after 25 years of chaos daimyo CHADIMOTO of the chinletO clan, with his wits, intelligence, the fact that he is the only one who knew how taxes work(the less the better) and a few muskets he bought from some dutch guy called "ver is mein willy", managed to BTFO all the other pleb clans, claims the title of SHOTGUN, and ousted the old emperor and replaced him with fōr-channū's son, ate channū, ending by that the long decade of chaos and normieness. >as a reward for returning order and prosperity to japan, ate-channū gifted the shotgun chadimoto with three gifts: <the title of /ourguy/. <centurii-chan as a bride for him. <a mysterious coin that can turn him into any race he ever wish to be And that is the story of chadimoto chinleto, they all lived happily ever after, exept for redditū who escaped and swore to comeback for revenge someday.
The END.
This is a joke post, don't be mad Reasons for Chonmage Anonymous 15-11-21 05:46:02 No. 8665
>what's with the ancient Japanese and this gay haircut? Supposedly this hairstyle was to keep the helmet in place, but that's kind of bullshit IMO. More likely people did this because japan has a culture of worshiping any authority figure so people shaved their heads as a sign of respect for their balding samurai boss: Male-pattern baldness had been common in Japan due to poor food availability, which is the reason Japanese people tended to be - and still are in some regards - smaller than average human size and often had fragile bones and poor tooth/jaw structure, after all there is good reason that depictions of feudal Japan in modern media like anime (pic 3 - Inuyasha) often feature balding farmers and bandits, but I digress.
TL;DR: Male pattern baldness was and remains pretty common in Japan, so a hairstyle that works with baldness has some practical purposes and became socially enforced.
This is also similar to Medieval Christian monks.
https://archive.ph/WKEs0 Food:
https://archive.ph/ZhcIl Masculinity:
https://archive.md/HiJ2q Basics of Chonmage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chonmage https://archive.md/XPmJE Asia in general:
https://archive.md/5c0qW Anonymous 23-11-21 20:24:18 No. 8738
>>1855 It was objectively a good thing for Japanese peasents as it made the country an industrialised imperialist capitalist state. Samurai rule was as evil and economically poor as it was in any feudalistic society.
I disagree with you when you say that they don't look impressive. I think it is also wrong to say their hairdo is objectively ugly. This is just chauvinism.
Anonymous 08-04-24 05:40:49 No. 21875
>>10546 >>18350 >>7853 >>7247 >>6994 At some point I need to upload these as mp4s, either directly here or through catbox or whatever. In the meantime I suggest seeing 2 videos related to the samurai by the youtube channel Voices of the Past
It really demonstrates the reality of samurai and the entire culture and society in Japan in that time, the vileness that drove Akira Kurosawa to make films like Seven Samurai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQY3dbUsVgE An interesting glimpse into the material development and acceleration of late-Imperial Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_Z8WFCLzE I should also go into the Keicho Embassy, as its an interestingly forgotten piece of Japanese history.
I'll also may do an analysis of The Shogun at some point, though I may make that a separate thread in /hobby/
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