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Episode 444 - The Crysanthemum Taboo

Jul 1, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
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2
What Happened to the Right Wings in Japan?
02:30 • 3min
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3
The Role of the Yakusa Fixers in the Political Right
05:41 • 2min
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4
The Right Found Power in Spectacle
08:05 • 3min
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5
The History of Right Wing Violence in Japan
10:43 • 2min
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6
Yamagochi's Assassination
12:35 • 3min
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7
The Death Poem by Fukas A
15:59 • 2min
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8
Tale of an Elegance
17:33 • 3min
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9
A Brief History of Japan's Free Speech Movement
20:23 • 3min
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10
Chuo Koron Edi's Editorials Were Ill Advised or Inappropriate
22:53 • 3min
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11
The Fear Speech of Shimanaka Hoji
25:39 • 3min
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12
The Sunyu Plotters
28:56 • 2min
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13
The Chrysanthemum Taboo
30:45 • 3min
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14
A House Is a Perfectly Cromulent Mascot
33:16 • 2min
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This week: how did a spate of right wing violence in the early years of the 1960s help to fundamentally reshape public discourse around the emperor (and thus around politics and history more generally) up to the present day? And what does all of this have to do with one of the most bizarre short stories that has ever been published?

Show notes here.

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