Japan's First Student Radicals

Smith, Henry DeWitt

ISBN 10: 0674471857 / ISBN 13: 9780674471856

Published by Harvard University Press, 1972

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Synopsis:

Long obscured by the more dramatic activities of post–World War II student activists, the history of the Japanese left-wing student movement during its formative period from 1918 until its suppression in the 1930s is analyzed here in detail for the first time. Focusing on the Shinjinkai (New Man Society) of Tokyo Imperial University, the leading prewar student group, Henry DeWitt Smith describes the origins and evolution of student radicalism in the period between the two World Wars. He concludes with an analysis of the careers of the Shinjinkai members after graduation and with an explanation of the importance of the prewar tradition to the postwar student movement.

From the Back Cover: Henry DeWitt Smith II goes on to relate the coincidental event which was occurring a slight distance away from the raging battle a gathering of some seventy men, most in their mid-sixties, in the alumni club to reminisce about their own days as left-wing student activists at Tokyo Imperial University in the 1920s.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Japan's First Student Radicals
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket