Tag Archives: Japan

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Spanish translation here

Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II European and North American New Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website:

Published: January 14, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, Japanese literature, literature, North American New Right, originals, Yukio Mishima | 5 Responses

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Christmas Wishes

Fullmoon Ancestry

Ferdinand Lindner, Altnordisches Julfest, from Die Gartenlaube magazine. 1880.

1,818 words

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. From Christmas decorations to Christmas songs, I always get into the holiday spirit wherever my travels and adventures take me. Although I prefer spending Christmas with friends and family, I have spent a few holidays by myself in various countries. While I was never one to question Read more …

Published: December 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Christmas, dogs, Fullmoon Ancestry, metal, Norse mythology, North American New Right, originals, travel, Yule, Yuletide | 6 Responses

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Sun & Steel:
The Tatenokai Phenomenon in Brief

Turan

1,919 words

In post-1945 Japan — as in most of the states that lost in World War II — American occupation brought about radical political and social changes. In the 1946 to 1948 Tokyo trial (similar to Nuremberg), several leaders of the war cabinet were sentenced to death or long prison terms. It was also stipulated in the constitution that Japan cannot have its own armed forces, only Jieitai (Japan Self Defense Forces), a small number of volunteers for self-defense purposes. Read more …

Published: November 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fascism, liberalism, literature, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, post-war Europe, post-war Japan, spirituality, Tatenokai, Turan, Yukio Mishima | 3 Responses

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The Meaning of Mishima’s Death

Greg Johnson

1,171 words

It was fifty years ago today that Yukio Mishima, one of Japan’s most celebrated men of letters and an ardent man of the Right, committed suicide at the age of forty-five. What happened, and what did it mean?

On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four followers wearing the uniforms of his private militia group the Shield Society (Tatenokai) visited the Ichigaya Barracks of the Japan Self-Defense Force (the Jieitai). Read more …

Published: November 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, seppuku, suicide, warrior ethics, Yukio Mishima | 8 Responses

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Remembering Yukio Mishima
(January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970)

Greg Johnson

798 words

Spanish translation here

Published: November 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, Japanese literature, literature, North American New Right, originals, Yukio Mishima | 1 Response

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Music & Meaning in Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru

Spencer J. Quinn

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It would be easy to make Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece Ikiru into something trite and hopeful — like an existential affirmation of life. But that wouldn’t be right. Despite the film’s title translating into English as “to live,” the film poignantly demonstrates how any real meaning life has is barely hanging by a thread. In fact, you would have to be a little crazy — or on death’s door — to act upon this meaning at all. You will be going against the grain, you see. Humanity is organized in such a way to impede meaning. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, articles, Ikiru, Japanese film, life, modernity, movie reviews, music, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn | 3 Responses

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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Trevor Lynch

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Yukio Mishima’s 1963 novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is one of his darkest works. Set in post-War Yokohama, it is the story of Fusako Kuroda, a thirty-three-year-old widow who runs a boutique selling Western luxury goods, and her thirteen-year-old son Noboru Kuroda. (See Alex Graham’s discussion of the novel here.)

Fusako’s world is entirely feminine, bourgeois, modern, and Western. She is also deeply lonely. Then she meets Ryuji Tsukazaki, the second-mate on a steamship. Read more …

Published: September 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bourgeois society, class, England, gender, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, sex, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, thumos, tradition, Trevor Lynch, Yukio Mishima | 3 Responses

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Ethiopia Pacific Movement:
Black Separatists, Seditionists, & How “White Supremacists” Stymied Back-to-Africa
Part I

Kerry Bolton

Mittie Maude Lena “M. M. L.” Gordon.

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During the tumult of the 1930s, there emerged a mass movement among American Negroes to separate from the USA and reestablish their roots in Africa. In contrast to the NAACP and the National Urban League, the Peace Movement of Ethiopia, aka Ethiopia Pacific Movement (EPM), did not receive sponsorship from Jacob Schiff, Lehman, Rockefeller, Carnegie, et al, but subsisted on nickels and dimes from its supporters. Read more …

Published: September 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged black Islam, Black Nationalism, Blacks in America, Ernest S. Cox, Kerry Bolton, Liberia, Mittie Gordon, Peace Movement of Ethiopia, repatriation, sedition, the FBI, Theodore G. Bilbo, William Gordon, World War II | 4 Responses

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Hokusai:
Beyond the Great Wave

Buttercup Dew

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Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave was an exhibition of Hokusai’s works mounted by the British Museum in the summer of 2017. This ambitious event sought to contextualize Hokusai’s famous In the Hollow of The Wave, better known as “The Great Wave,” Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, art reviews, articles, Buttercup Dew, commercial art, folklore, Hokusai, Japanese art, Mt. Fuji, North American New Right, originals, pop art, printing, religion, sacredness, woodblocks | 1 Response

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High & Low

Trevor Lynch

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Like most Westerners, I got to know Akira Kurosawa through his classic samurai films: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Kagemusha, and Ran. Thus I was surprised to discover that fully half of his thirty films are actually set in contemporary Japan over the stretch of Kurosawa’s long lifetime (1910–1998). High and Low (1963) is one of the best of these films, along with Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, and Ikiru. Read more …

Published: July 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, aristocracy, articles, capitalism, class conflict, feudalism, honor, justice, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, Trevor Lynch, virtue | 8 Responses

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Meditations on the Mysticism of Yomawari: Night Alone

Buttercup Dew

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Yomawari: Night Alone is a survival horror videogame from Nippon Ichi Software, released in fall 2015 in Japan before being rapidly localized into English in 2016. It has enjoyed commercial success across multiple platforms (PC, Nintendo Switch, and PS Vita) and spawned a sequel, Midnight Shadows. The player character is a little girl with a red bow drawn in simple anime style; a sort of Minnie Mouse from a more mature world. Read more …

Published: June 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Buttercup Dew, censorship, coming of age, folklore, morality, North American New Right, originals, paganism, sexuality, spirituality, Traditionalism, video game reviews, video games, violence | 2 Responses

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Mishima: The Last Debate

Video of the Day

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Yukio Mishima, one of the Right’s most celebrated authors, took part in a debate at the University of Tokyo in 1969 with members of the radical Left-wing student group Zenkyoto. The debate was filmed, Read more …

Published: April 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged debate, debates, video of the day, Yukio Mishima | 6 Responses

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The Anti-Revolutionary Manifesto

Yukio Mishima

1,290 words

Translated by Riki Rei

Translator’s note: Mishima penned this essay titled “Anti-Revolutionary Manifesto” in early 1969, almost two years before his suicide, at the peak of Leftist protests, demonstrations, and riots, which were sweeping not just across Japan, but throughout the entire Western world. Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Communism, essays, in English, nationalism, North American New Right, Riki Rei, Traditionalism, translations, Yukio Mishima | 3 Responses

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A Call to Arms:
The Final Speech of Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

2,338 words

Translated by Riki Rei.

Translator’s Note:

This text, entitled A Call to Arms, was left on the spot when Yukio Mishima committed seppuku in the General’s office of the East Japan Division of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force at the Ichigaya military base, Tokyo, on November 25, 1970. Read more …

Published: March 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged in English, nationalism, North American New Right, Riki Rei, translations, Yukio Mishima | 8 Responses

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The Last Words of Yukio Mishima to His Followers

Yukio Mishima

580 words

Translated by Riki Rei.

To the members of Tatenokai [Shield Society]:

Among you there are both those who have stayed with us consistently since the founding of our organization and those of the fifth class who have been with us for only nine months. Yet as far as I’m concerned, regardless of the degrees of your involvement and experience, we are all comrades of a shared identity who have gone beyond the difference of ages Read more …

Published: March 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Riki Rei, speeches, the 1970s, translations, Yukio Mishima | 1 Response

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Valentine’s Day Special:
Alessandra Mussolini’s Amore

Scott Weisswald

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It’s February 14th, and love is in the air. What better way to soundtrack today’s romantic escapades than with Alessandra Mussolini — the granddaughter of Il Duce himself — and her sultry, Japanese-released city-pop record, Amore?

Released in 1982 exclusively for the Japanese market, Read more …

Published: February 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Italy, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, pop music, romance, Scott Weisswald, Valentine's Day | 3 Responses

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In Defense of Mishima

Riki Rei

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I have read Andrew Joyce’s article “Against Mishima” at The Occidental Observer with great interest and mixed feelings. I admire Dr. Joyce’s writings on the Jewish question, but to be candid, his critique of Mishima is on the whole tendentious and shallow. It is also overly emphatic on some topics while neglecting or downplaying other equally, if not more, important ones. Read more …

Published: January 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethics, North American New Right, originals, Riki Rei, the Japanese, Yukio Mishima | 14 Responses

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Lothrop Stoddard:
A Prophet We Should Study

Morris V. de Camp

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We can’t say we weren’t warned. Around the time of the First World War, when Europe ruled nearly every part of the Earth, Theodore Lothrop Stoddard wrote a series of highly regarded books and articles about the global racial situation that argued European global rule was coming unglued. Stoddard, a Harvard-educated scholar, was also pro-white figure; he was consequently memory-holed by the establishment after World War II and his death in 1950. It’s precisely because of this we need to continue listening to his words.

Published: January 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abortion, articles, birth control, eugenics, Islam, Lothrop Stoddard, Morris V. de Camp, New England, North American New Right, originals, Puritanism, the great replacement | 10 Responses

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Midway:
A Different Perspective

F. C. Comtaose

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It was with mixed feelings that I finished reading the highly articulate and skillfully presented review of the film Midway by Robert Hampton. I had similar feelings about the article by Anton.

On the one hand, I heartily agree with their sensible views on the film’s refreshing depictions of American soldiers fighting for a White country, the comparison between Midway and The Patriot, and the rightful place and role of women with White Nationalist and traditionalist overtones. Read more …

Published: January 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, China, espionage, F. C. Comtaose, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Midway, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, Soviet Union, the Jewish question, World War II | 17 Responses

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Remembering Yukio Mishima:
January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970

Greg Johnson

700 words

Spanish translation here

By Mishima:

“Voices of the Heroic Spirits”

Published: January 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, Japanese literature, literature, North American New Right, originals, Yukio Mishima | 4 Responses

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White Nationalists & Japanese Nationalists Against the Globalists

F. C. Comtaose

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It is now approaching the end of the fall semester here in the US, and a teacher’s job becomes busy in preparation for final exams and other academic work. I definitely fall in this category at the US institution where I am temporarily employed. Read more …

Published: December 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, F. C. Comtaose, North American New Right, originals, the Japanese, the United States, white nationalism | 31 Responses

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Mishima’s Life for Sale

Alex Graham

1,153 words

Yukio Mishima
Life for Sale
Translated by Stephen Dodd
London: Penguin Books, 2019

This past year has seen three new English translations of novels by Yukio Mishima: The Frolic of the Beasts, Star, and now Life for Sale, a pulpy, stylish novel that offers an incisive satire of post-war Japanese society. Read more …

Published: August 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, book reviews, literature, masochism, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, satire, suicide, Yukio Mishima | Leave a comment

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Zen, the Samurai Ethos, & Death

Dominique Venner

2,446 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

This text is drawn from Dominique Venner, Un samouraï d’Occident: Le Bréviaire des insoumis (Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2013), 101-15.. I have previously reviewed this work at The Occidental Observer.

Published: January 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, book excerpts, Buddhism, bushido, Dominique Venner, Guillaume Durocher, meditation, Samurai, suicide, translations, warrior ethics, Yukio Mishima, Zen | 13 Responses

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Remembering Yukio Mishima:
January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970

Greg Johnson

685 words

Spanish translation here

Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. Read more …

Published: January 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, Japanese literature, literature, North American New Right, originals, Yukio Mishima | 5 Responses

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Grégoire Canlorbe Interviews Jared Taylor

Jared Taylor

Jared Taylor and Grégoire Canlorbe
— Paris, September 2018

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Samuel Jared Taylor is a Japan-born American white advocate. He is the founder and editor of the online magazine American Renaissance. Taylor is also the president of American Renaissance’s parent organization, New Century Foundation.

Grégoire Canlorbe: With the benefit of hindsight, what was the Golden Age of race relations in the USA? May it have been segregation? Read more …

Published: October 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, Blacks in America, C. G. Jung, Calvinism, caste, colonialism, Donald Trump, Grégoire Canlorbe, imperialism, interviews, Jared Taylor, North American New Right, originals, Russia, Samurai, segregation, The Confederacy | 16 Responses

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Kiki’s Delivery Service: Europe in Japan

Buttercup Dew

2,447 words

Kiki’s Delivery Service
Written & directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Studio Ghibli, 1989

Kiki’s Delivery Service is a fantasy anime film from the world-famous Studio Ghibli, Read more …

Published: June 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anime, articles, Buttercup Dew, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

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Island of Fire

Thomas Goodrich

8,976 words

Author’s Note:

As we’ve come to appreciate with each passing year, World War Two was the most evil manifestation in human history. No other conflict even comes close in matching that war for its sweeping, sadistic and unspeakable crimes. Mass murder of surrendering soldiers, mass starvation of helpless civilians, mass rape of women and children, Read more …

Published: April 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Allied atrocities, articles, book excerpts, North American New Right, originals, Thomas Goodrich, World War II | 16 Responses

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Music as Revolt Against the Modern World:
Envy’s Atheist’s Cornea

Archilochus

Envy’s Tetsuya Fukagawa

3,910 words

Opening remarks

οὐδαμοῦ γὰρ κινοῦνται μουσικῆς τρόποι ἄνευ πολιτικῶν νόμων τῶν μεγίστων (Plato, Republic 424c)

“The forms of music are not changed without the most significant socio-political mores and laws being changed with them.” So writes Plato in his chef-d’œuvre. This insight is borne out by history, and perhaps never more so than in our own time, the post-war twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Read more …

Published: March 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, Plato, warrior ethos | Leave a comment

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Principalities & Powers, Part Four:
New World Baseball

Samuel Francis

Wal-Mart on Black Friday, the free trade utopia

2,208 words

For all of the subtle grace that distinguishes Japanese civilization, the esoteric gabble of Western diplomacy seems to elude its leaders. Every few months, some titan of Tokyo pronounces his low opinion of America and Americans, unveiling his view that our schools are dreadful, our racial minorities backward, our politicians crooks, or our workers lazy. Read more …

Published: March 29, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, classical liberalism, consumerism, free trade, globalization, materialism, reprints, Samuel Francis | 6 Responses

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Sugimoto Gorō & Soldier-Zen

Guillaume Durocher

2,382 words

Asceticism often has a bad reputation in vitalist circles. The idea of the sexless, passionless, passive, world-rejecting monk seems self-evidently maladaptive, an evolutionary dead end, as Nietzsche and Savitri Devi surmised. Yet the fact is that monks have often been warriors, and the monarchs of ascetic religions, such as Christianity and Buddhism, have often been great conquerors. Read more …