Japan and Communism. How likely?

[alanX]

Originally Posted by SaintKat

I can't imagine Japan becoming communist. They're too efficient.

Yes, yes. And there would be no point. It'd be like Australia becoming a communistic country.

It's just...not going to happen.

Originally Posted by ozkai

AGAIN

Yes, Ozkai, again. ^^
But I can understand if you didn't take a single picture in over 20+ years away from your homeland, it's totally believable.

[MMM]

Stay on topic, Alan.

The Green Party in the US has massive support. Millions of dollars in funding and maybe millions of supporters. Probably number three or four in terms of ranking, and there is a snowball's chance in Rio that the US is going to crossover to a Green Party rule.

[komitsuki]

Originally Posted by ozkai

Yep.. Six years In Japan, two in China, eight in Thailand, Two In Kong Kong, one in Singapore and one in Malaysia

Courses of history as in... a society experiencing events. Not one's personal experience.

For example: South Korea is already a borderline conservative Protestant Christian country because of historical reason.

By looking at the history, Japanese can never be Communist.

[ozkai]

Originally Posted by alanX

Yes, Ozkai, again. ^^
But I can understand if you didn't take a single picture in over 20+ years away from your homeland, it's totally believable.

I'm just not getting why you are thinking "my photos", or indeed how on earth it is related to communism increasing in Japan

[Sangetsu]

Originally Posted by fluffy0000

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.

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.

[KitSeraphina]

I don't think japan will become communist like others said its just to different. I think where I am we could use more restrictions, maybe a mix of the two is better then again maybe not.

[fluffy0000]

Maybe the ruling party that marched Japan into WW2 might have been a 'rightwing totalitarian fascist police state' Sangetsu? The JCP was the only Japanese political party that opposed and waged a armed struggle throughout WW2 against Japans ruling party and government hundreds of it's members were executed. If you would like to argue otherwise then please enlighten us of the benefits of Japans WW2 'rightwing totalitarian police state' versus whatever leftwing commie menace state ?
Last time I checked the Associated Press was and American owned business?

[james1254]

Originally Posted by DJnohara

Many people seem to automatically associate communism with dictatorship, brutality and injustice when it wasn't suppose to be that way. It was the corrupt politicians and unstable government that made it that way.

Yes proper communism would be nice but I don't think it's going to happen as humans are inherently selfish and evil(I don't have much faith in humanity ).

[Thunda]

Simply put not likely.

[Banzaiii]

Its very unlikely, but possible.