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Against Japanism

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  • Remembering Kazuo Ishikawa and the Sayama Incident w/ Miho Kim

    April 8, 2025 · 1 hr 26 min

    Miho Kim joins the show to discuss the life of Kazuo Ishikawa, the Japanese criminal (in)justice system, and the Buraku Liberation Movement.  Kazuo was a man of the outcaste Buraku origin who was falsely accused of murdering a female high…

  • Happyend w/ Neo Sora

    February 4, 2025 · 1 hr 45 min

    This episode contains spoilers of Happyend. Neo Sora joins the show to discuss filmmaking and radical politics. Neo is a Japanese-American filmmaker and Palestine solidarity activist based in Tokyo. His latest film Happyend was premiered…

  • Attack on Titan: An Imperialist Propaganda w/ Kazuma Hashimoto

    October 22, 2024 · 1 hr 22 min

    This episode contains spoilers of the Attack on Titan series. Kazuma Hashimoto returns to the show to discuss Attack on Titan, a popular manga and anime series created by Hajime Isayama. This is the first installment of a mini-series on…

  • Vietnamese Migrant Workers and the Legacy of "Technical Internship" Program w/ Le Phuong Anh

    March 5, 2024 · 1 hr 28 min

    Maya and Kota sit down with Le Phuong Anh to talk about the struggle of Vietnamese migrant workers and international students in Japan. Anh is a PhD student at the graduate school of Asia Pacific Studies at Waseda University, whose…

  • Multipolarity or Anti-Imperialism? w/ Politics in Command

    September 13, 2023 · 1 hr 33 min

    Kota sits down with J from Politics in Command to discuss "multipolarity," a discourse which sees the existence of multiple superpowers as a positive development from the unipolar world dominated by the United States.  We ask whether the…

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  • Danchi, Social Reproduction, and the Politics of Urban Development w/ Marxist Disco

    August 23, 2023 · 1 hr 58 min

    Felix a.k.a. Marxist Disco joins the show to discuss the wave of urban redevelopment happening in Japan right now. There are more than 200 buildings planned just in the Tokyo area including Japan’s tallest skyscraper on record, despite…

  • The Takarazuka Revue and Capitalist Urban Development w/ The BeruBara Tag Boom

    June 28, 2023 · 1 hr 32 min

    Alex from the BeruBara Tag Boom joins the show to discuss the history and politics of an all-women musical theater based in Western Japan known as the Takarazuka Revue.  We discuss the class politics of the Takarazuka Revue, particularly…

  • The History of Japanese Fascism: Part 1 w/ The Minyan

    June 19, 2023 · 1 hr 27 min

    Kota sits down with Talia and Prez from the Minyan to answer the question: Was pre-WWII Japan fascist? This is the first installment of a multi-part series on the origins, political economy, and culture of Japanese fascism. Outro…

  • The People vs. G7 w/ Migrante Japan

    May 17, 2023 · 1 hr 13 min

    Roger Raymundo, a member of Migrante Japan and co-host of Radyo Migrante re-joins the show to discuss the imperialist agenda of the upcoming G7 summit in Hiroshima, how it affects the workers, peasants, and migrants from the Global South…

  • Caste Oppression and the Buraku Liberation Movement w/ Buraku Stories

    April 25, 2023 · 1 hr 13 min

    Niki from Buraku Stories joins the show to discuss the history of the struggle of a discriminated outcaste people in Japan known as Burakumin.  The term “Burakumin” originated in the early twentieth century, “Buraku” meaning “village” or…

  • Nikkei Organizing w/ Miya Sommers, J Town Action & Solidarity, and Nikkei Uprising

    January 10, 2023 · 1 hr 33 min

    Kota joins an online forum “Nikkei Organizing: A Community Discussion on Organizing Strategy and Developing Revolutionary Movements” held via Zoom on November 13, 2022. The event was hosted and moderated by Miya Sommers from Nikkei…

  • Anti-Obituary: Abe Shinzo w/ Deprogramming Imperialism

    September 24, 2022 · 1 hr 36 min

    Alisa and Hye Sung from Deprogramming Imperialism join the show to discuss Abe's legacy and his ties to the Unification Church, and review everything that's transpired since his assassination by Yamagami Tetsuya in July before the…

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About the show

This podcast seeks to challenge the commonly held assumptions about Japan as harmonious, homogeneous, and traditional by recasting its history as a history of conflict and change, as the history of class struggles, from anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, and intersectional perspectives.