Long Reads: Japan's Socialist Tradition w/ Kenji Hasegawa

Jacobin Radio · Jul 13, 2023 · 1h 4m

Japan may be a powerhouse of global capitalism. But it also developed a powerful socialist movement in the twentieth century. During the Cold War, the Socialist Party led the opposition to the ruling Liberal Democrats. Japan today still has a Communist Party with a mass membership and a serious electoral base.

Kenji Hasegawa joins Long Reads for a conversation about the Japanese left. He’s a professor of modern Japanese history at Yokohama National University and the author of Student Radicalism and the Formation of Modern Japan.

Read Kenji's article for Jacobin, "Japanese Socialism Was a…