Tag Archives: Genpei Akasegawa

Political Comics: Japan Radicalism and New Left Protest Movements Told Through Manga

Posted on Nov 3, 2015 by William Andrews

When the Liberal Democratic Party wanted to produce an educational pamphlet earlier this year about its desire to change the Constitution of Japan, it chose a medium that many in the West might find surprising, even unbecoming, for such a … Continue reading →

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The Art of Revolution: Hi-Red Center in 1960s Japan

Posted on Mar 2, 2014 by William Andrews

“The man who throws a bomb is an artist,” says Lucian Gregory, one of the poets who reside in the suburb of Saffron Park in The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton. “I would destroy the world if I … Continue reading →

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