Tracing Japanese Leftist Political Activism (1957 - 2017) by Kevin Coogan

Tracing Japanese Leftist Political Activism (1957 - 2017) by Kevin Coogan

Tracing Japanese Leftist Political Activism (1957 - 2017) tells the story of the Japanese Red Army (JRA), a militant left-wing group founded in 1971 which was involved in numerous terrorist attacks.

"Claudia Derichs has gracefully completed the manuscript left behind by Kevin Coogan’s untimely deathIt tells a richly detailed story of Japanese leftist political activism that sheds light on neglected connections spanning national, organizational, and chronological boundaries."

Kenji Hasegawa, Yokohama National University, Japan, and author of Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan

"Studies of the Long Sixties are increasingly transnational in approach and this book is another bold entry in that growing canon. Gleaned from a multilingual array of sources — political publications, previous scholarship, memoirs, reportage, declassified materials, and more — it is an ambitious attempt to pull together the disparate and sometimes astonishing threads of the Japanese Red Army and Beheiren — respectively, perhaps the most notorious and lauded elements of the Japanese New Left — as they intersected through several key intellectual-activists and interacted with other radicals around the world."

William Andrews, author of Dissenting Japan

Kevin Coogan was a veteran investigative journalist. His previous books include Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International (1999) and The Spy Who Would Be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground (2022).

Claudia Derichs is Professor of Transregional Southeast Asian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. She has published on the Japanese New Left and the Japanese Red Army.

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ISBN 13	9780367641382
ISBN 10	0367641380
Title	Tracing Japanese Leftist Political Activism (1957 - 2017)
Author	Kevin Coogan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2022-10-11
Number of pages	320
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