20:00
Kollektivcafé Kurbad, Kassel
"No!“ – in German “Get lost!it sounded 2013 through the streets of Tokyo's Koreatown. For the first time, anti-fascists succeeded, to block a neo-fascist demo through acts of civil disobedience. As a result, dozens of Antifa groups were formed across the country, which in one way or another made life more difficult for the many right-wing extremist groups in Japan.
This "new", The AFA movement, which is based on western Antifa aesthetics and forms of action, is a product of the mass anti-nuclear protests after the Fukushima catastrophe. But the movement is ideologically contradictory, unites both parts of the radical left over liberals to right-wing activists. In the lecture, not only the "new" Antifa movement in Japan is examined, but places them in a broader context of historical Japanese anti-fascism, for example 1920.
lecturer: Gregor Wakounig is a Japanologist, Translator and freelance journalist.