This is a book I’d like to recommend to anyone wishing to commemorate the fi ftieth anniversary of the tumultuous revolts taking place globally around the year 1968. Although presenting itself as a history of Japanese radicalism and counterculture from 1945 to Fukushima, its prime focus is on the 1960s and 1970s, the heyday of the New Left radicalism and counterculture. As many as 10 out of the book’s 14 chapters (not counting the introduction and conclusion) are devoted to these decades. Furthermore, it’s with an obvious sense of fascination that it describes the actions and the counterculture of this time. Williams’s aim is to debunk the common Nihonjinron stereotype of Japan as characterized by harmony and deference to order. He reaches this aim admirably. The stereotype in question was hardly true even in the 1980s, a decade of self-congratulatory conservative triumphalism, but it was blatantly untrue during preceding decades, when the country was rocked by protests. Today, as we are getting used to mass protests gathering in Kasumigaseki and Nagata-chō, it may well be time to dust off our knowledge of the little-known history of Japanese radicalism and counterculture, and here Williams’s book will come in handy. The reader should be warned that this is not a theoretical book. It doesn’t contain much explicit engagement with previous research, except discreetly in the footnotes. Furthermore, the book is not a history of social movements per se, but only about “ideas and movements that challenged the social fabric in radical and extreme ways” (p. 4). Such radicalism existed on both the left and the right. Large parts of the book in fact deal with far-right extremism, and the resulting juxtaposition of left and right radical activism works well to bring out the interaction between them. Tracing this interaction between adversaries is not all that common in social movement studies and the fact that Williams has chosen to do so should be lauded. Another laudable effect of this juxtaposition is that it puts the ghastly image of leftist “terrorism” in perspective. As Williams shows, rightist acts of extremism were in fact as deadly and numerous as those of the Left. The book proceeds narratively and chronologically to tell us the story of radicalism beginning with iconic events during the early postwar period such as the 1946 Shibuya incident or the 1952 Bloody May Day and early anti-U.S. military base protests. We get an extensive treatment of the Anpo

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异议日本：日本激进主义和反主流文化的历史，从 1945 年到福岛，威廉·安德鲁斯

这是一本我想推荐给任何希望纪念 1968 年左右全球发生的动荡起义 50 周年的人的书。 虽然将自己描述为从 1945 年到福岛的日本激进主义和反主流文化的历史，但它的主要焦点1960 年代和 1970 年代是新左派激进主义和反主流文化的鼎盛时期。本书 14 章（不包括引言和结论）中有多达 10 章专门讨论这几十年。此外，它以一种明显的迷恋感来描述这个时代的行为和反主流文化。威廉姆斯的目标是揭穿以和谐和尊重秩序为特征的日本普遍的日本人论刻板印象。他令人钦佩地达到了这个目标。即使在 1980 年代，这种刻板印象也几乎不成立，十年自吹自擂的保守派必胜主义，但在之前的几十年里，当这个国家被抗议活动震撼时，这是公然不真实的。今天，当我们已经习惯了霞关和永田町的大规模抗议活动时，很可能是时候让我们了解鲜为人知的日本激进主义和反文化历史了，威廉姆斯的书在这里会派上用场。应该警告读者，这不是一本理论书籍。除了谨慎地在脚注中之外，它没有包含太多与先前研究的明确参与。此外，这本书本身并不是社会运动的历史，而只是关于“以激进和极端方式挑战社会结构的思想和运动”（第 4 页）。这种激进主义在左翼和右翼都存在。事实上，这本书的大部分内容都在处理极右翼极端主义，由此产生的左右激进主义并置可以很好地体现出它们之间的相互作用。追踪对手之间的这种互动在社会运动研究中并不常见，威廉姆斯选择这样做的事实应该受到称赞。这种并置的另一个值得称道的效果是，它使左派“恐怖主义”的可怕形象成为现实。正如威廉姆斯所展示的，右翼极端主义行为实际上与左翼的行为一样致命且数量众多。这本书按叙事和时间顺序向我们讲述了激进主义的故事，这些故事始于战后早期的标志性事件，例如 1946 年涩谷事件或 1952 年血腥五一节以及早期的反美军事基地抗议活动。