Orientalism and Reactionary Ideologies in Video Games w/ Kazuma Hashimoto and Andrew Kiya
Against Japanism23 Mar 2021

Orientalism and Reactionary Ideologies in Video Games w/ Kazuma Hashimoto and Andrew Kiya

Kota is joined by Kazuma Hashimoto and Andrew Kiya to discuss the Ghost of Tsushima, its fetishization of the samurai through a misinterpretation of Kurosawa Akira's films, Cyberpunk 2077, how Orientalism and the idealization of Japan in these games (re-packaged and exported abroad through the Japanese state's "Cool Japan" initiative) enable the far right pro-imperialist politics both in ideology and practice. We specifically discuss the recent attempt by the Japanese far right to shut...

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On Intermediary Exploitation w/ Ken Kawashima [Patreon Preview]

On Intermediary Exploitation w/ Ken Kawashima [Patreon Preview]

In this preview of a patron-exclusive episode, Ken Kawashima discusses intermediary exploitation (中間搾取, chūkan sakushu) as a form of capitalist exploitation that indirectly exploits the labour power o...

15 Feb 20228min

The History of Filipino Migration to Japan w/ Migrante Japan

The History of Filipino Migration to Japan w/ Migrante Japan

Kota is joined by Roger Raymundo of Migrante Japan, a regional chapter of Migrante International, a global alliance of grassroots migrant organizations of overseas Filipinos and their families. We beg...

11 Feb 20221h 54min

The Proletarian Gamble: Uno Kōzō's Theory of Crisis & Korean Workers in Interwar Japan w/ Ken Kawashima

The Proletarian Gamble: Uno Kōzō's Theory of Crisis & Korean Workers in Interwar Japan w/ Ken Kawashima

Kota is joined by Ken Kawashima, author of The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan and translator of Theory of Crisis by Japanese Marxist economist Uno Kōzō. We begin the interview b...

21 Jan 20222h 26min

Ghost in the Machine: The Emperor System & Anti-Revolutionary Thought Policing in Interwar Japan w/ Max Ward

Ghost in the Machine: The Emperor System & Anti-Revolutionary Thought Policing in Interwar Japan w/ Max Ward

Kota sits down with Max Ward to discuss his book about the Japanese state’s effort to suppress revolutionary movements and ideologically convert their participants through the Peace Preservation Law i...

10 Nov 20212h 15min

Solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance w/ May Shigenobu

Solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance w/ May Shigenobu

Kota sits down with a Palestinian-Japanese journalist Shigenobu May to talk about Palestine. May is the daughter of Shigenobu Fusako, a former member of the Japanese Red Army and a political prisone...

2 Sep 20212h 29min

Women in the Japanese New Left w/ Chelsea Szendi Schieder

Women in the Japanese New Left w/ Chelsea Szendi Schieder

Kota is joined by Chelsea Szendi Schieder to discuss her latest book Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left. Women in the Japanese New Left played a vital role in building up th...

13 Jul 20211h 47min

The History of Marxism in Japan w/ Gavin Walker - Part 2

The History of Marxism in Japan w/ Gavin Walker - Part 2

Against Japanism presents Part 2 of an interview with Dr. Gavin Walker about the history of Marxism in Japan, focusing on the postwar period starting in the late 1940s. First, we discuss the reason ...

5 Mai 202155min

The History of Marxism in Japan w/ Gavin Walker - Part 1

The History of Marxism in Japan w/ Gavin Walker - Part 1

In this two part series, Kota sits down with Gavin Walker to discuss the history of Marxism in Japan. Instead of simply narrating the facts of this history chronologically, we focus on particular the...

20 Apr 20211h 11min

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