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Episode 570 – The Revolutionary, Part 5
This week: Miyazaki Manabu’s dramatic departure from the Communist Party, as his faith in the revolution wanes. What does a wannabe college revolutionary with no prospects turn to when the revolution fails to materialize?
Sources
Miyazaki, Manabu. Toppamono: Outlaw,, Radical, Suspect. My Life in Japan’s Underworld. Trans. Robert Whiting.
Yoshikuni, Igarashi. Japan 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Consumerism
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<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9797" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/i-img900x1200-1684724518jszslz210343-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/i-img900x1200-1684724518jszslz210343-225x300.jpg 225w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/i-img900x1200-1684724518jszslz210343-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/i-img900x1200-1684724518jszslz210343.jpg 900w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" />Another Shukan Gendai cover that is less than subtle about what kind of publication it is.
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9798" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20220416024438064557_0c67878a01cfe1459a8d31b9d57048ed-241x300.jpg" alt="" width="241" height="300" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20220416024438064557_0c67878a01cfe1459a8d31b9d57048ed-241x300.jpg 241w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20220416024438064557_0c67878a01cfe1459a8d31b9d57048ed.jpg 481w" sizes="(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" />Shukan Gendai’s issue on Mishima Yukio–you can definitely tell how this was a magazine deliberately not billing itself as family friendly.
<img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-9799" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Mishima_Yukio_1970.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="270" />Mishima during his coup attempt speech.
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This week: Miyazaki Manabu’s dramatic departure from the Communist Party, as his faith in the revolution wanes. What does a wannabe college revolutionary with no prospects turn to when the revolution fails to materialize?
Sources
Miyazaki, Manabu. Toppamono: Outlaw,, Radical, Suspect. My Life in Japan’s Underworld. Trans. Robert Whiting.
Yoshikuni, Igarashi. Japan 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Consumerism
Images
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9797" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/i-img900x1200-1684724518jszslz210343-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/i-img900x1200-1684724518jszslz210343-225x300.jpg 225w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/i-img900x1200-1684724518jszslz210343-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/i-img900x1200-1684724518jszslz210343.jpg 900w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" />Another Shukan Gendai cover that is less than subtle about what kind of publication it is.
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9798" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20220416024438064557_0c67878a01cfe1459a8d31b9d57048ed-241x300.jpg" alt="" width="241" height="300" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20220416024438064557_0c67878a01cfe1459a8d31b9d57048ed-241x300.jpg 241w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20220416024438064557_0c67878a01cfe1459a8d31b9d57048ed.jpg 481w" sizes="(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" />Shukan Gendai’s issue on Mishima Yukio–you can definitely tell how this was a magazine deliberately not billing itself as family friendly.
<img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-9799" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Mishima_Yukio_1970.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="270" />Mishima during his coup attempt speech.