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Mobilizing Japanese Youth - The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (Hardcover)
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Mobilizing Japanese Youth - The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (Hardcover)
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how
non-state institutions in Japan—left-wing radicals and right-wing
activists—attempted to mold the political consciousness of the
nation's first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s were the
demographic majority of voting-age adults. Gerteis argues that
socially constructed aspects of class and gender preconfigured the
forms of political rhetoric and social organization that both the
far-right and far-left deployed to mobilize postwar, further
exacerbating the levels of social and political alienation
expressed by young blue- and pink- collar working men and women
well into the 1970s, illustrated by high-profile acts of political
violence committed by young Japanese in this era. As Gerteis shows,
Japanese youth were profoundly influenced by a transnational flow
of ideas and people that constituted a unique historical
convergence of pan-Asianism, Mao-ism, black nationalism,
anti-imperialism, anticommunism, neo-fascism, and
ultra-nationalism. Mobilizing Japanese Youth carefully unpacks
their formative experiences and the social, cultural, and political
challenges to both the hegemonic culture and the authority of the
Japanese state that engulfed them. The 1950s-style
mass-mobilization efforts orchestrated by organized labor could not
capture their political imagination in the way that more extreme
ideologies could. By focusing on how far-right and far-left
organizations attempted to reach-out to young radicals, especially
those of working-class origins, this book offers a new
understanding of successive waves of youth radicalism since 1960.
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