| Sangetsu |
05-15-2009 12:19 PM |
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Originally Posted by fluffy0000
(Post 716574)
BY ERIC TALMADGE • ASSOCIATED PRESS • April 19, 2009
TOKYO — Under a big red flag, the headquarters of the Communist Party of Japan are the center of the most vibrant grassroots movement in the country. The party's ranks are swelling, it has 24,000 branch offices and more than 1 million people read its newspaper. Only one party — the one that runs the country — beats it at fund-raising.
While the Communist Party — which is the fourth-largest party in parliament but has only 16 of the total 722 seats — is not likely to take over anytime soon, it is making . end.
Prior to Japans entry into WW2 the JCP (Japanese Communist Party) founded in 1922 was the only political party to oppose the ruling partys march to war.
Note JCP during WW2 waged a very bloody counter insurgency through a clandestine intelligence operation that penetrated the highest circles of Japanese Elite excerpt- From Richard Sorge probably the greatest spy intelligence operation in history-Sorge arrived in Japan in September 1933. He was warned by his spymaster not to have contact with the underground Japanese Communist Party or with the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo. His spy network in Japan include Max Klausen, Ozaki Hotsumi, and two other Comintern agents, Branko Vukelic, a journalist working for the French magazine, Vu and a Japanese journalist, Miyagi Yotoku, who was employed by the English-language newspaper, the Japan Advertiser.
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It seems that the communist party of Japan has attended the North Korea/Soviet Union school of hype. "1 million people read it's newspaper...", yeah right, one million papers are printed and handed out on street corners or stuffed into mail boxes, most of them are used to line bird cages or wrap vegetable peelings for the convenience of carrying them to the trash more easily. Few people go to the trouble to read them.
"Only one party beats the JCP at fund raising" would be significant if that difference in funding weren't as lopsided as comparing the size of the land in my back yard to the size of the continental US.
I like the quote "The JCP was the only political party to oppose the ruling party's march to war". It was fundamental that the JCP should oppose everything every action of the ruling party. One of the reasons that the ruling party was able to grow and maintain it's power was because of the distaste most Japanese had for communism. Were it otherwise, the communists would have been the ruling party, is that not so?
Japan is as likely to become communist as the moon is likely to fall out of the sky tonight. |
