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Episode 567 – The Revolutionary, Part 2
This week: Miyazaki Manabu completes his transformation from son of a yakuza boss to a committed member of the Communist party. After all, it turns out those two groups have a surprising amount in common…
Sources
Miyazaki, Manabu. Toppamono: Outlaw,, Radical, Suspect. My Life in Japan’s Underworld. Trans. Robert Whiting.
Images
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9772" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-300x224.jpg 300w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-768x572.jpg 768w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-1536x1145.jpg 1536w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-1600x1193.jpg 1600w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />A recruiting poster for Minsei, the youth league of the Communist Party, from the early 1950s.
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9773" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Senji_yamamoto-206x300.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="300" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Senji_yamamoto-206x300.jpg 206w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Senji_yamamoto-704x1024.jpg 704w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Senji_yamamoto-768x1117.jpg 768w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Senji_yamamoto.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px" />Yamamoto Senji, the prewar communist whom Miyazaki Kiyochika had been friendly with. He was assassinated in 1929.
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9774" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/imagelink_2007051800094-300x284.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="284" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/imagelink_2007051800094-300x284.jpg 300w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/imagelink_2007051800094.jpg 512w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Taniguchi Zentaro, the communist party leader who recruited Miyazaki into the party. This is from 1969, about a decade after Miyazaki began expressing interest.
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This week: Miyazaki Manabu completes his transformation from son of a yakuza boss to a committed member of the Communist party. After all, it turns out those two groups have a surprising amount in common…
Sources
Miyazaki, Manabu. Toppamono: Outlaw,, Radical, Suspect. My Life in Japan’s Underworld. Trans. Robert Whiting.
Images
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9772" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-300x224.jpg 300w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-768x572.jpg 768w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-1536x1145.jpg 1536w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School-1600x1193.jpg 1600w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1920px-Poster_Seki_Music_School.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />A recruiting poster for Minsei, the youth league of the Communist Party, from the early 1950s.
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9773" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Senji_yamamoto-206x300.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="300" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Senji_yamamoto-206x300.jpg 206w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Senji_yamamoto-704x1024.jpg 704w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Senji_yamamoto-768x1117.jpg 768w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Senji_yamamoto.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px" />Yamamoto Senji, the prewar communist whom Miyazaki Kiyochika had been friendly with. He was assassinated in 1929.
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9774" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/imagelink_2007051800094-300x284.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="284" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/imagelink_2007051800094-300x284.jpg 300w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/imagelink_2007051800094.jpg 512w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Taniguchi Zentaro, the communist party leader who recruited Miyazaki into the party. This is from 1969, about a decade after Miyazaki began expressing interest.