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The Cold War world was for the most part dissected neatly along ideological lines that ran parallel to its strategic and economic bipolarities. During the 1950s, however, the loyalties of the Japanese people were divided. Those on the Left mostly looked to Moscow and Beijing for their inspiration. The Japanese Left comprised a vast array of interlinked institutions. At the base of this structure, however, were just three organisations: the Nihon Kyōsantō (Japan Communist Party, JCP); the Nihon Shakaitō (Japan Socialist Party, JSP), including its powerful labour federation Sōhyō; and the Gensuibaku Kinshi Nihon Kyōgikai or Gensuikyō (Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.)
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Igarashi Takeshi, ‘Peace-Making and Party Politics’ Journal of Japanese Studies (1985): 341.
See Scalapino (1967): chs. 2& 3; Paul Langer, Communism in Japan (1972) Stanford: chs. 2, 4, 5; J.A.A. Stockwin, ‘The Communist Party of Japan’ Problems of Communism (Jan./ Feb. 1967): 1–10; Swearingen and Langer (1952).
Swearingen and Langer (1952): 235; Langer (1972): 72; Lalima Varma, The Making of Japan’s China Policy (1991) Delhi: 102.
Langer (1972): 50; Scalapino (1967): 88–90; P.A.N. Murthy, ‘The Japanese Left and the Anti-Nuclear Movement’ International Studies (Jan. 1964): 285.
G. Totten and T. Kawakami, ‘Gensuikyo and the Peace Movement in Japan’ Asian Survey (May 1964): 839.
Sone Eki, ‘Future Policy toward Communist China’ Japan Quarterly (Oct/Dec. 1957): 432–35.
J.A.A. Stockwin, ‘The JCP in the Sino-Soviet Dispute’, The Disintegrating Monolith, J.D.B. Miller and T.H. Rigby (eds) (1965) Canberra: 145.
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Braddick, C.W. (2004). Monolithic unity: the Japanese Left and the Communist bloc, 1950–62. In: Japan and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950–1964. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005693_6
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