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

Miho Kim joins the show to discuss the life of Kazuo Ishikawa, the Japanese criminal (in)justice system, and the Buraku Liberation Movement. Kazuo was a man of the outcaste Buraku origin who was fals...

8 Apr 20251h 25min

This episode contains spoilers of Happyend. Neo Sora joins the show to discuss filmmaking and radical politics. Neo is a Japanese-American filmmaker and Palestine solidarity activist based in Tokyo. H...

4 Feb 20251h 44min

This episode contains spoilers of the Attack on Titan series. Kazuma Hashimoto returns to the show to discuss Attack on Titan, a popular manga and anime series created by Hajime Isayama. This is the...

22 Okt 20241h 22min

Maya and Kota sit down with Le Phuong Anh to talk about the struggle of Vietnamese migrant workers and international students in Japan. Anh is a PhD student at the graduate school of Asia Pacific St...

5 Mars 20241h 27min

Kota sits down with J from Politics in Command to discuss "multipolarity," a discourse which sees the existence of multiple superpowers as a positive development from the unipolar world dominated by t...

13 Sep 20231h 33min

Felix a.k.a. Marxist Disco joins the show to discuss the wave of urban redevelopment happening in Japan right now. There are more than 200 buildings planned just in the Tokyo area including Japan’s t...

23 Aug 20231h 57min

Alex from the BeruBara Tag Boom joins the show to discuss the history and politics of an all-women musical theater based in Western Japan known as the Takarazuka Revue. We discuss the class politics...

28 Juni 20231h 32min

Kota sits down with Talia and Prez from the Minyan to answer the question: Was pre-WWII Japan fascist? This is the first installment of a multi-part series on the origins, political economy, and cul...

19 Juni 20231h 26min