padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
no, it is quite interesting - Mizutani was supposedly (who really knows) offered participation in the highjacking as well but turned it down
that will to extremity is present throughout the Japanese radical left, even compared to the New Left in other places
i.e. the United Red Army, which murdered half its own members in Cultural Revolution-style struggle sessions
Mishima's politics were a mirror image, far-right and ultranationalist, but the process and result were basically the same
Julian Cope's book on Japanese 70s avant-rock is pretty good (better than his krautrock book, in fact) and touches on some of this
the roots of that scene in the cultural milieu of the student movement, radical performance art, avant-garde theatre groups, etc
that will to extremity is present throughout the Japanese radical left, even compared to the New Left in other places
i.e. the United Red Army, which murdered half its own members in Cultural Revolution-style struggle sessions
Mishima's politics were a mirror image, far-right and ultranationalist, but the process and result were basically the same
Julian Cope's book on Japanese 70s avant-rock is pretty good (better than his krautrock book, in fact) and touches on some of this
the roots of that scene in the cultural milieu of the student movement, radical performance art, avant-garde theatre groups, etc