Re: [Marxism] Japanese nativism
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Please send me a copy of this article. Am 22.05.2017 um 20:24 schrieb Louis Proyect via Marxism: POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * (From a Harper's magazine article behind a paywall. Contact me if you'd like a copy.) Yet not even Japanese excellence could insulate the country from economic disaster. In 1990, the stock and real-estate markets collapsed. Desperation and bitterness gave way to a proliferation of angry nationalist rallies, which have continued to the present day. Protesters took to gathering in the streets and harassing ethnic minorities, whom they accuse of taking away their jobs. Koichi Nakano, a political scientist who studies these groups at Sophia University, in Tokyo, told me, “These are basically spontaneous, rather fluid networks of haters.” Most are working-age men who have never managed to find secure employment; Nakano said that 37 percent of Japanese workers today have sporadic, temporary positions. When I was in Tokyo, not long ago, on any given day I would see dozens of people carrying Japanese flags and shouting vague, violent threats in minority neighborhoods or outside foreign embassies. Nakano estimates that there are more than a hundred nationalist groups that convene across the country. They are not on the fringe: A leader of the group Zaitokukai, which has called for a large-scale massacre of Korean residents, has been photographed hobnobbing with a senior member of the Liberal Democratic Party, the current ruling party. Several L.D.P. officials have been photographed posing with the head of a neo-Nazi group in front of a Japanese flag. Even the more centrist members of the L.D.P. proudly refer to their country’s ethnic makeup as “homogeneous” — an impossible claim to make of a former colonial empire. Nearly half of Abe’s cabinet belongs to a group known as the League for Going to Worship Together at Yasukuni, a shrine in Tokyo that commemorates Japanese soldiers, including a number of convicted war criminals. Abe’s wife makes pilgrimages to Yasukuni, and Abe sends offerings on holidays. One afternoon, I attended a festival at the Yasukuni Shrine. The entrance was lined with tens of thousands of paper lanterns emitting a warm, golden light. Visitors wandered around eating vanilla soft serve. I asked a man why the festival was so important to him. “Koreans!” he said, and thrust his middle finger into the air. “Fuck Chinese!” He wore a shirt with a Japanese flag and text that read Japanese! be proud! you are the descendants of the Yamato race. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/aktiv%40rkob.net -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG www.rkob.net ak...@rkob.net Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Japanese nativism
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Louis, I would very much like to have a copy of the Harper´s Magazine article. Thanks/Håkan 2017-05-22 20:24 GMT+02:00 Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu>: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > (From a Harper's magazine article behind a paywall. Contact me if you'd > like a copy.) > > Yet not even Japanese excellence could insulate the country from economic > disaster. In 1990, the stock and real-estate markets collapsed. Desperation > and bitterness gave way to a proliferation of angry nationalist rallies, > which have continued to the present day. Protesters took to gathering in > the streets and harassing ethnic minorities, whom they accuse of taking > away their jobs. Koichi Nakano, a political scientist who studies these > groups at Sophia University, in Tokyo, told me, “These are basically > spontaneous, rather fluid networks of haters.” Most are working-age men who > have never managed to find secure employment; Nakano said that 37 percent > of Japanese workers today have sporadic, temporary positions. > > When I was in Tokyo, not long ago, on any given day I would see dozens of > people carrying Japanese flags and shouting vague, violent threats in > minority neighborhoods or outside foreign embassies. Nakano estimates that > there are more than a hundred nationalist groups that convene across the > country. They are not on the fringe: A leader of the group Zaitokukai, > which has called for a large-scale massacre of Korean residents, has been > photographed hobnobbing with a senior member of the Liberal Democratic > Party, the current ruling party. Several L.D.P. officials have been > photographed posing with the head of a neo-Nazi group in front of a > Japanese flag. Even the more centrist members of the L.D.P. proudly refer > to their country’s ethnic makeup as “homogeneous” — an impossible claim to > make of a former colonial empire. Nearly half of Abe’s cabinet belongs to a > group known as the League for Going to Worship Together at Yasukuni, a > shrine in Tokyo that commemorates Japanese soldiers, including a number of > convicted war criminals. Abe’s wife makes pilgrimages to Yasukuni, and Abe > sends offerings on holidays. > > One afternoon, I attended a festival at the Yasukuni Shrine. The entrance > was lined with tens of thousands of paper lanterns emitting a warm, golden > light. Visitors wandered around eating vanilla soft serve. I asked a man > why the festival was so important to him. “Koreans!” he said, and thrust > his middle finger into the air. “Fuck Chinese!” He wore a shirt with a > Japanese flag and text that read Japanese! be proud! you are the > descendants of the Yamato race. > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/wedontgiveup%40gmail.com -- -- Håkan Danielsson Educator and activist Med Andra(s) Ögon Hammarkroken 154 SE-424 36 Angered Sweden Ph +46 313302754 Mob +46 702990325 E-post wedontgiv...@gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Japanese nativism
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/23/japan-shinzo-abes-government-has-a-thing-about-hitler-it-likes-him _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
