tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16996988.post115929648479899192..comments2023-02-01T15:20:53.057-08:00Comments on Papers I Wrote: The Japanese Student Left in the 1960sJoel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16996988.post-91351507341998614992014-06-23T06:39:58.583-07:002014-06-23T06:39:58.583-07:00Also, some further thoughts on the Japanese studen...Also, some further thoughts on the Japanese student movement are on my main blog:<br /><br /><a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2008/01/tombo-times-japanese-student-movement.html" rel="nofollow">http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2008/01/tombo-times-japanese-student-movement.html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2008/02/tombo-times-japanese-student-movement.html" rel="nofollow">http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2008/02/tombo-times-japanese-student-movement.html</a>Joel Swagmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16996988.post-32166593223467790942014-06-23T06:36:59.541-07:002014-06-23T06:36:59.541-07:00Some Addendums:
Something which I perhaps should ...Some Addendums:<br /><br />Something which I perhaps should have added to this original paper (but didn't) is the source of that Clark Kerr quote I alluded to:<br /><br /><br /><br /> As an avant-garde campus, Berkeley was going to be in trouble at some point. It didn't have to be at that time over this issue. But given the nature of San Francisco and the tradition of the Berkeley campus and what was going on around the world, in Japan in 1960 and the movement of the blacks, Berkeley was going to be in trouble at some time (Kerr in Worst, 276).<br /><br />Worst, Milton. Fire in the Streets: America in the 1960s. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1979.<br /><br />(I used this quote in another one of my papers: <a href="http://papersiwrote.blogspot.com/2005/12/conditions-leading-up-to-berkeley-free.html" rel="nofollow">http://papersiwrote.blogspot.com/2005/12/conditions-leading-up-to-berkeley-free.html</a>Joel Swagmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16996988.post-58687897517894033272010-09-23T16:51:27.241-07:002010-09-23T16:51:27.241-07:00I was in Japan in 1968 for four months, fleeing th...I was in Japan in 1968 for four months, fleeing the insanity of America and it's war in Vietnam. I was invited to Tokyo University. When I arrived I was escorted through the maze of lockers set up at the entrance of a student occupied building and taken to the President's office which had been rearranged to accomodate students in various stages of exhaustion and activity. I marveled at their energy and ability to sleep soundly on two chairs pushed together. <br /><br />I was invited back to a public conference the coming weekend. I took the train and when I arrived at an auditorium, it was packed with students crowded together on hard benches and a slippery center aisle, wet from huge blocks of ice being slid down to the stage for a tiny bit of relief from the oppressive heat. As soon as I was recognized, I was invited backstage and asked to speak about the Vietnam war and my opposition. I thought about doing it. The enthusiam was intoxicating. But this was a foreign country with different rights and laws. I politely declined and joined the audience. The students were passionate, sitting for hours in the heat. Several weeks later, I heard about the students' occupation ending in a violent battle with police. <br /><br />My instinct for caution in Japan proved correct. A month later I was tardy three days in renewing my Tourist Visa. Two weeks later I was required to go to a Police Station for a lengthy interrogation conducted with no translator. I had to go two days in a row to answer copious, detailed questions about myself and my family and sign a "confession" written in tiny Kanji characters 3 pages long with 4 carbon copies. I would like to go back to Japan and find my "confession" and have someone translate what I confessed to. <br /><br />They were crazy days in Japan. There were such extremes amid such controls, like the performance group that performed the jizzing contest in Hibiya Park on a Sunday creating a screaming panic exodus of families.onedothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11654453180096190318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16996988.post-72275007153759806092009-04-28T00:03:00.000-07:002009-04-28T00:03:00.000-07:00Although I'm opposed to academic dishonesty in gen...Although I'm opposed to academic dishonesty in general, I have to say I wouldn't feel personally wronged if someone wanted to use parts of this paper for their own purposes. It's a standard under-graduate paper I did almost 10 years ago now, of questionable quality, and I hardly need say I have no rights to the information nor get any sort of benefit from the credit.<br /><br />Anyone who plagerizes this paper however does so at their own risk as there are huge gaps in it. This is due mainly to the fact that, as I said in the introduction, I didn't have access then to the information that I do now.<br /><br />There's a lot more information available on-line then there was 10 years ago. I know this page sometimes pops up first or second in a google search, but I would encourage people interested in the subject to search a bit deeper. (Also I apologize to any serious researches who keep bumping into this paper when using search engines).<br /><br />Also in terms of books on the subject I can recommend “Fire Across the Sea: the Vietnam War and Japan” by Thomas Havens and "Blood and Rage: the story of the Japanese Red Army” by William Farrell. I had read neither of books at the time I wrote this paper, but I've come across them in the years since, and had I known about them 10 years ago this paper would read a lot differently. Hopefully any student can get a hold of these books with inter-library loan.<br /><br />If anyone else knows of any other useful sources, feel free to comment. This particular page has started to get a surprising number of hits recently, so maybe we could use the comments section to start a useful bibliography.Joel Swagmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16996988.post-22469111771795206452009-04-27T23:09:00.000-07:002009-04-27T23:09:00.000-07:00Also, you should put your full name here - give yo...Also, you should put your full name here - give yourself some credit and maybe tweak the feeble consciences of the folks who come here to plagiarize your work (erm, like me ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16996988.post-51690002783736093492008-08-05T16:04:00.000-07:002008-08-05T16:04:00.000-07:00As the author mentions, this is a rather limited s...As the author mentions, this is a rather limited summary of the Japanese Student Movements. It doesn't make mention of several important groups and movements, such as the anti-kaihatsu movements, Beheiren, and Zenkyoto. Perhaps most needed is an analysis of <I>why</I> these movements were unique in contrast to student movements of the same period around the world, which indeed, they were.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com