The Japanese Socialist Party in the Early Sixties

The Japanese socialist party was divided into three internal factions, which i am creatively going to label right, centre and left. These internal divisions were largely a matter of ideology, and in particular, ideological approaches to the idea of revolution. I think it makes more sense to think of fuzzy borders between three political clusters than anything else but they are seriously important in one respect. Unlike the factions of the conservative l d which were mostly about patronage and personal relationships, the divisions inside of the j s p were actually ideological. And since the l d p's divisions were personal, those could be overcome by skilled navigation of personal relationships, as ek dahiato did. The j s s however,