Abstract
This introductory chapter sets the stage of this book with a discussion of the contested nature of the ‘peace’ of April 28, 1952, and the Bloody May Day incident that took place three days later. It examines the conflictual coverage of the events by mainstream and progressive media sources, as well as the 2013 government effort to enshrine April 28 as the moment where Japan ‘returned to the international community.’ It also examines firsthand accounts of Bloody May Day by participants in the demonstration, showing how the event was an exceptional event embodying the conflicted merging of the marginalized activism of Japanese Communist Party (JCP)-affiliated groups and the mass festival of May Day.
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Notes
- 1.
https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/96_abe/statement/2013/0428shikiten.html (Accessed May 22, 2018).
- 2.
Mori Yoshio, Tsuchi no naka no kakumei (Tokyo: Gendai kikakushitsu, 2010), 320. Mori Yoshio and Toriyama Atsushi, ‘Shima gurumi tōsō’ wa dō junbi saretaka (Tokyo: Fuji shuppan, 2013), 126–132.
- 3.
Hara Takeshi, Kōkyomae hiroba (Tokyo: Kōbunsha, 2003), 126–142.
- 4.
Ibid., 156–160.
- 5.
‘Dokuritsu no hi wo mukau,’ Asahi Shinbun, April 28, 1952. ‘Machi wa angai hissori,’ Asahi Shinbun, April 29, 1952.
- 6.
‘Dokuritsu sōshitsu wo tomurau,’ Tokyo Daigaku Gakusei Shinbun, May 1, 1952.
- 7.
‘Hibiya de keikan to rantō,’ Asahi Shinbun, May 1, 1952, Evening edition.
- 8.
‘Nazo no hōsō hajimaru,’ Asahi Shinbun, May 2, 1952.
- 9.
Tōyama Shigeki, ‘Rekishika no mita 5.1 jiken,’ Tokyo Daigaku Gakusei Shinbun, May 15, 1952.
- 10.
Umezaki Haruo, ‘Watashi wa mita,’ Sekai (July 1952): 146–149.
- 11.
Yui Chikai ikō, kaisō (Tōkyō: Yui Chikai tsuitōshū kankōkai, 1987), 27,65–66.
- 12.
‘Tokyo mēdē sōjō jiken,’ Asahi Gurafu, May 21, 1952, 7.
- 13.
‘Tonikaku, chi da,’ Tokyo Daigaku Gakusei Shinbun, May 8, 1952.
- 14.
Masuyama Tasuke, ‘“50 nen mondai” oboegaki,’ in Undōshikenkyūkai ed., Undōshi kenkyū v.8 (Tokyo: San’ichi shobō, 1981), 120–125.
- 15.
Sawachi Hisae, ‘Sawachi Hisae no mita “Ryūketsu no mēdē”’ Bungei Shunjū (June 1999).
- 16.
Shiryō sengo gakusei undō v.3 (Tokyo: San’ichi shobō, 1969), 38–39.
- 17.
‘Heion na shokuminc hi dē,’ Asahi Shinbun, February 22, 1953.
- 18.
Ōno Akio, Zengakuren keppūroku (Tokyo: 20 seikisha), 93.
- 19.
Yamagishi Isshō, ‘Minzoku dokuritsu kōdōtai no uta—40 nen no saigetsu wo hete,’ Bunka hyōron (April 1990): 176–201.
- 20.
Yamamoto Akira, Sengo fūzokūshi (Osaka: Osaka shoseki, 1986), 157–162.
- 21.
Jason Karlin, ‘The Gender of Nationalism: Competing Masculinities in Meiji Japan,’ Journal of Japanese Studies (Winter 2002): 60.
- 22.
Panpan refers to prostitutes serving US occupation forces. For representations of panpan in the post-occupation period, see Michael Molasky, The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), 107–135.
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Hasegawa, K. (2019). Introduction. In: Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan. New Directions in East Asian History. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1777-4_1
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