Japan

[Bright Banana Beard]

Is there any revolutionary leftist in Japan? I am learning Japanese because I love their entertainment and it very funny like MXC.

[Demogorgon]

Yes, Japan has the largest non-Governing (or formerly governing) Communist party in the world

[Raúl Duke]

They don't have much of an anarchist presence that I know of... (although I heard of Japanese anarchists posting on libcom)

Their CP is probably more like a "social democrat" party now these days...

[lvatt]

Japan has been under the rightist rule of the Jiyu-Minshuto for quite some decades now. There are plenty of horror stories of organized crime affiliations, corruption scandals etc. In all, quite a scary political situation IMO

[which doctor]

You may be interested in learning about the Zengakuren who broke from the Japanese Communist Party in the late fifties.

edit: fifties, not sixties

[Bright Banana Beard]

You may be interested in learning about the Zengakuren who broke from the Japanese Communist Party in the sixties.

you have any article about it please?

[Forward Union]

They don't have much of an anarchist presence that I know of... (although I heard of Japanese anarchists posting on libcom)

The IFA tried to set up an Anarchist Federation in Japan but the state destroyed it, raided it's offices and arrested it's organisers.

Japans anarchist history is a game of cat and mouse, no mass movements or achievements.

[Raúl Duke]

The IFA tried to set up an Anarchist Federation in Japan but the state destroyed it, raided it's offices and arrested it's organisers.

Japans anarchist history is a game of cat and mouse, no mass movements or achievements.

Was that recent?

I had a feeling that Japan wasn't that "democratic" compared to China since Japan has been ruled (as in, this party has always been a majority in the Diet.) mostly by 1 party.