You may not know that compared to the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, the National Democratic Party of Japan, and the Social Democratic Party of Japan, the fourth-ranked Japanese Communist Party is arguably the oldest political party in the Japanese Diet.
But just as the founder of the Japanese Communist Party, Katayama Qian, said: The birth of the Japanese Communist Party in Japan has brought hope to Japan, but it is also doomed to many disasters and difficulties, and even little hope!
This is not that Katayama is pessimistic, but that the environment in Japan is too unfriendly to the Japanese Communist Party.
First of all, Japan's land area is small, it lacks strategic depth, and the Japanese Communist Party cannot escape the government's sight at all; secondly, the Japanese militarist government is rich and powerful, and once it provokes the government, the Japanese Communist Party can be destroyed almost overnight; third, Japan has been a country centered on the emperor for thousands of years, and the emperor is not only the fuehrer, but also the myth of the military government as a "living god" and a "living savior."These ideas have won the hearts of the people in Japan.
The idea propagated by the Japanese Communist Party to the people is that "there has never been any savior", and there is a fundamental opposition between these two views, which are doomed to intolerable water and fire, so it is difficult for the Japanese Communist Party to develop and grow.
Let me make a comparison for you, Katayama began to lead the Japanese workers' movement in 1895 and actively planned the establishment of the Japanese Communist Party, but every time it just took shape, the Japanese government immediately suppressed it, and the cycle began and began again, and it was not until 1922 that the Japanese Communist Party was reluctantly and secretly established.
The middle span is 27 years long, which is very difficult.
The founding of the Communist Party of China is relatively easy, in 1914, Mr. Li Dazhao studied at Waseda University in Japan, he began to come into contact with Marxist theory, after returning to China, he and Mr. Chen Duxiu quickly established the idea of "establishing the Communist Party of China" by leading the May Fourth Movement and studying the Russian Revolution, so from 1921 onwards, the good story of "one south and one north, meet to build the party" has been passed down to this day, it has been a full 100 years, we only spent 7 years before and after, looking back at history, The weather, the location, the people and the people seem to be on the side of China, and Japan is the unlucky egg who has worked hard for a long time but has achieved nothing.
Immediately after the secret establishment of the Japanese Communist Party, the Japanese government passed the Law on the Maintenance of Public Order, which stipulates that the Japanese police have the power to suppress organizations that seek to subvert the state.
So the Japanese Communist Party's "Red Flag Newspaper" was forcibly banned, the leaders of the Japanese Communist Party who dared to show their faces to do propaganda were forcibly arrested, more than 1,000 people were arrested in 1927 alone, and the general secretary of the Japanese Communist Party, Tokuda Akiichi, was arrested in 1928 and spent 18 years in prison until Japan's defeat in the war.
Under the high pressure of the Japanese military government, the leaders of the Japanese Communist Party were either arrested and imprisoned or far away from other countries, such as another important leader of the Japanese Communist Party, Bansaka Sanzo, who spent most of the war years in the caves of Yan'an.
At that time, the Japanese government, out of fear of the anti-war movement, began to frantically encircle and suppress the Japanese Communist Party organizations in the country, and thousands of Japanese Communist Party members were arrested and imprisoned, and many were even executed without trial.
Especially in 1936, the year of the 226 coup d'état broke out in Japan, the fascist forces completely controlled the Japanese cabinet, and then the Japanese Communist Party was basically purged by the military government from the top to the grass-roots level, and the Japanese Communist Party members who luckily escaped were forced to transfer to the Soviet Union and China.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Bansaka Samsan went to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, and with the help of the CHINESE Communists, established the "Japan Studies Association." He compiled and compiled his research reports on Japan's political, economic, military, and social conditions into a book, which helped the high-level leaders of the CCP to understand Japan scientifically and objectively, thus playing a huge role in formulating policies against Japan!
In 1940, the Japanese Workers' and Peasants' School was established in Yan'an, and Nozaka Sanzo personally served as the principal, and one of his most important tasks was to do ideological education for Japanese prisoners of war, and helped more than 300 Japanese prisoners of war to complete their ideological transformation before and after, becoming the famous "Japanese Eight Roads" during the War of Resistance.
These Japanese Eight Roads graduated in Yan'an and became the mainstay of the Japanese Communist Party after returning to China, and it can be said that the real backbone of the Japanese Communist Party was cultivated in China!
Fast forward to 1945, the year of Japan's defeat, MacArthur's entry into the Island of Japan, the repeal of the infamous Law of The Maintenance of Public Order, the release of Tokuda, and the return of Samzo Bansaka to Japan with ambitions to prepare for a big fight.
In December of the same year, the Fourth Party Congress was convened, which formulated the Party's Programme of Action and the Party Constitution, and put forward the slogan of abolishing the emperor system and establishing a people's republic. But this slogan obviously violated the interests of the "Emperor Taishang" MacArthur, after the war, Japan was extremely short of food, the people lived in dire straits, and only MacArthur could bring food to Japan, and only MacArthur could control the overall situation of Japan by force.
The Japanese Communists wanted to abolish the imperial system, and it was useless to ask the Japanese people, only MacArthur, the Japanese Communists wanted armed struggle, sorry, the powerful American fleet could overwhelm any guerrilla force at any time.
Besides, ordinary people can't eat enough, and the life of the guerrillas can be imagined. In 1951, the Japanese Communist Party once formulated the policy of armed revolution, but before it could be implemented, it was pinned down by the US military and almost lost all its wealth!
After all, the reality is cruel, and Tokuda Kokuichi, under the coercion and temptation of MacArthur, finally obediently embarked on the road of "peaceful revolution".
In 1946, the Japanese Communist Party won 5 seats in the first election of the Diet, and then increased year by year, becoming 35 seats in 1949, wanting to "armed revolution" in 1951, the result was that all the seats were lost, and in 1952, it began to learn to "adapt to the times" and slowly restored its seats, and in 1979 it increased to 41 seats, and the current Japanese Communist Party has become the fourth largest political party in Japan after years of development! At the same time, it is also the "10,000-year-old opposition party" in Japanese politics!
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Japan formed a situation in which the Liberal Democratic Party, the National Democratic Party, the Social Democratic Party, the Komeito Party, and the Democratic Socialist Party took turns to govern.
Don't forget that Japan still has a large number of US troops stationed there, and the demand of the Japanese Communist Party is to abrogate the "US-Japan Security Treaty" and make Japan a truly independent country. This is one of them! The second is that after becoming the legalized political party in Japan, the Japanese Communist Party has long lost its wind and bones and has been castrated to an extraordinary degree; in order to adapt to the so-called international situation, they have abandoned their principles again and again, revised the Party Constitution and Party Regulations, deleted key phrases such as "socialist revolution" and "class struggle", basically abandoned the basic tasks of the proletarian revolution, and became an ordinary left-wing party with only the role of social supervision.
In other words, the current Japanese Communist Party is already a tiger with its teeth extracted, and it is only a surface!
The other day I came across a Japanese propaganda video, not just a video, but a series of videos, and I was stunned after watching it.
The Japanese Communist Party, who had once been from the Communist International and was proud and indomitable, the Japanese Communist Party, who had made countless Japanese pioneers throw their heads and shed their blood, did not be intimidated by the war, but let the soft knives of capitalism cut beyond recognition.
But in any case, things are not too bad, at least leave a spark, a spark of stars, can burn the plains, you say, can this spark be ignited? Welcome to the comments section and we'll see you in the next issue!