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An indispensable volume on Japan’s New Left. It reveals how intellectuals creatively reinterpreted Marxism through locally specific contexts of student movements, subjectivity, war responsibility, and US hegemony. Through fifteen thinkers, it affirms Japan’s New Left as a major theoretical endevour in its own right, not merely derivative of Western thought. * Rumi Sakamto, Senior Lecturer, Unviersity of Auckland, New Zealand *

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Christopher Perkins is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The United Red Army on Screen (2015) and The Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle Against Order in Postwar Japan (2024), as well as numerous journal articles and translations on the pre and postwar Japanese student movement. Ferran de Vargas is UKRI Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, having previously been Juan de la Cierva Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellow at the Open University of Catalonia. He is the author of a book on the history of the Japanese New Left, Izquierda y revolución. Una historia política del Japón de posguerra (1945-1972) (2020) and of articles in academic journals such as positions: asia critique, Japan Forum, and Modern Asian Studies.

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