This podcast seeks to challenge the commonly held assumptions about Japan as harmonious, homogeneous, and traditional by recasting its history as a history of conflict and change, as the history of class struggles, from anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, and intersectional perspectives.
The Japanese New Left? It's interesting for sure. The Weather Underground is probably the national new left I'm least familiar with. Probably had least mass support, not that any of them really did. Could just be the US political climate. Same strain of apathy as in Australia