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Speaker 1: And eisen you know, and and this is shouge fight

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Speaker 1: over it, and Eisenhower wants to try him an American court.

427
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Speaker 1: And Eisenhower like is forces is like literally forced to

428
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Speaker 1: like try him in a Japanese court because like if

429
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Speaker 1: if you try to do in an American court, like

430
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,880
Speaker 1: people would have literally like brick by brick dismantled every

431
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Speaker 1: milk and like American military based on the in the islands.

432
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Speaker 1: And so she she's made concern here is that this

433
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Speaker 1: is gonna like funk up his political stuff. And so

434
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Speaker 1: he he develops his plan and where where he He's

435
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: gonna go to to Eisenhower and make a bunch of

436
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Speaker 1: bands about this US Japan Security treaty and this thing.

437
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Speaker 1: This is like one of the other things that's been

438
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Speaker 1: causing protests is that this treaty is like SNA one originally,

439
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Speaker 1: and it's it's really weird, like it lets the US

440
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Speaker 1: like send troops into Japan to put down quote internal

441
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 1: riots or disturbances. Preaches. Yeah, there's and the earth like

442
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: in terms of like a peace treaty, and the other

443
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 1: thing is the lesson lesson and less the US involved

444
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 1: itself in civil wars, and like you know, in a

445
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: bunch of Japanese commentary pen like there's like no precedent

446
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:22,679
Speaker 1: for this, Like there's never been a peace treaty that

447
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,920
Speaker 1: like between two free nations that allows this. So you know,

448
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: when you get these massive protests, like people people people

449
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,919
Speaker 1: like build giant wooden fortresses and manned them for like

450
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 1: forty years in the middle of American artillery ranges like that,

451
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,920
Speaker 1: there's all of this stuff, and you know, Eisenhower used

452
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 1: with Kishi and is like and Kishi just goes, look

453
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Speaker 1: like you have to revise this treaty in Eisenhower's like okay,

454
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Speaker 1: And so she she like steaks basically his entire political

455
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Speaker 1: career on on on revising this this US Japan security treaty,

456
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: which it comes down as on po and you know,

457
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Speaker 1: like it really looks like he's going to like pull

458
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: this off. He's gonna get treated revisions, He's gonna be

459
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: incredibly popular and tell she she just like she just

460
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 1: she's got like that extra bit too fascist. And the

461
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: extra bit too fascist. Was she tried to pass something

462
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:22,120
Speaker 1: called the Police Duties Execution Law, which is like, yeah,

463
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,120
Speaker 1: that's that just already seems like we're on a bad start. Yeah, yeah,

464
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 1: like like this this is a police law so fascist

465
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Speaker 1: that like his other fascist hardliner buddies like in the

466
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Speaker 1: LDP are like, we won't let you pass this because

467
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Speaker 1: you'll get you'll get eaten alive. Yeah. Basically, like what

468
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,919
Speaker 1: it does is it it lets it lets the Japanese.

469
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Speaker 1: It would have let the Japanese police do warrtletz warrtless

470
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Speaker 1: searchers and seizures and you know, and everyone's like, okay,

471
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Speaker 1: so this is just like this is this, this is

472
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Speaker 1: this is pre war fascist him again, so you know,

473
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Speaker 1: and you know, you know, and I think I think

474
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Speaker 1: he thinks I can't get away with this because he's

475
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Speaker 1: on a bunch of other like fascist culture ward sort

476
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Speaker 1: of stuff. Like he he does this thing where he

477
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: makes everyone take these like moral lessons and like all

478
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Speaker 1: these students take like moral lessons and has these like

479
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Speaker 1: evaluations of teachers because he thinks there's like they're too

480
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: communists and once fascist propaganda like taught instead. And you know,

481
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Speaker 1: I want to make it clear there is no parallel

482
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Speaker 1: between this and anything that is happening in the US.

483
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Speaker 1: Right now, go back to sleep. There's nothing here. Everything

484
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Speaker 1: is gonna be fine. It's like yeah, no, no, No

485
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Speaker 1: one in the US is raging a bunch of political

486
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Speaker 1: campaigns about what teachers are teaching in school because I

487
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Speaker 1: think it's too leftist. No, that has not happened. But

488
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Speaker 1: you know what does happen in the US. That's right,

489
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Speaker 1: that's that's God willing the only thing that will ever

490
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Speaker 1: happen in this country in the future going forward, because

491
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Speaker 1: when you get right down to it, what else do

492
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Speaker 1: we need but products, services, and of course the blissful, gooey, moist,

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Speaker 1: sticky what come drenched? Products of products and services? What? Okay, well,

494
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Speaker 1: let's just go to ads. Ah, we're back, okay, Chris,

495
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Speaker 1: please continue, Yes, Chris, please continue. Sophie's angry at me

496
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Speaker 1: because she doesn't like it when I say come drenched

497
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Speaker 1: while leading into an ad. Not at all. I don't

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Speaker 1: think anybody enjoyed that. And if you did, please tell us.

499
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Speaker 1: I think our sponsors enjoy it. So oh no, I

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Speaker 1: mean it could be anissan. We we could On this episode, yeah,

501
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: absolutely inappropriate. So keh Yeah, so she's gotten a bit

502
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Speaker 1: too fascist. And he also he does this thing where

503
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Speaker 1: so so the way that like the norms of the

504
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: Japanese political system worked was that like you're supposed to

505
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Speaker 1: be before you pass a bill, you're supposed to talk

506
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Speaker 1: to the opposition about it, and then they're supposed to

507
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Speaker 1: be a debate, and she's just like yeah, funk that,

508
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Speaker 1: Like he just like Snap introduces it without like he

509
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Speaker 1: basically he takes a snap vote to extend the diet

510
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Speaker 1: and just like Snap forces everyone to try to vote

511
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Speaker 1: on it. And this is like maximally bad politics by Kishi.

512
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Speaker 1: Like you know, it's like the norms of democracy are

513
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: like actually important to Japan, and they're important because this

514
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: is this is a country that was a decade and

515
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: a half ago literally fascist, and Kissi is trying to

516
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Speaker 1: pass this bill that is bring fascism back, and so

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Speaker 1: you know, everyone gets Piste off, Like three of his

518
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: cadet ministers resigned, and this also pulls the whole left

519
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 1: together and they formed something called the People's Council and

520
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: they start they start a general stripe shop the bill

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00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 1: and Keishi and then and they win and Keishi forced

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00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: to pull the bill and it you know, and it

523
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: makes it way weaker politically. And when when he tries

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Speaker 1: to get his security like up on POS the Security

525
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Speaker 1: Treaty ratified by by the Diet, those same groups form

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Speaker 1: this even larger group called the People's Counsel for Preventing

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Speaker 1: Revision to Security Treaty. And this thing is massive's got

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Speaker 1: a it's a hundred and thirty four different organizations in it. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, the biggest of them of the Japanese Socialist Party,

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Speaker 1: the General Council of Trade Unions in Japan or very

531
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Speaker 1: powerful trade union UH federation uh. And then there's Zeno Kadran,

532
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Speaker 1: which is the Japanese radical student movement to we will

533
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Speaker 1: we will talk more about in a little bit. Um. Yeah,

534
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Speaker 1: that Commonist Party is also sort of involved in this,

535
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Speaker 1: but like they don't want to let them join for

536
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Speaker 1: political reasons initially. But you know, the everything about this,

537
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Speaker 1: like it's not just like leftist orgs like Japan's Professional

538
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Speaker 1: Association Association for like Thespians is in this coalition. Like yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's you know, there's a lot of people who are

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Speaker 1: like there's a lot of groups that are like not

541
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Speaker 1: inherently political groups that are in this and yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's you know, this is basically this is the

543
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Speaker 1: product of like all the stuff that Left has been

544
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Speaker 1: doing for the past basically since the war ended. And

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Speaker 1: so you know, and these guys point out that, you know,

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Speaker 1: so she is able to get the clause out about

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Speaker 1: the US interfering to surpressed rioties civil wars, but there's

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Speaker 1: still a clause that says the US allowed to send

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Speaker 1: troops to deal with quote all threats to Japan's peace

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Speaker 1: and security, which you know, yeah, threats to peace and

551
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: security like people doing politics we don't agree with. Yep, yep, yeah, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's yeah. So, so so People's Council starts staging these like

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Speaker 1: enormous protests and you know, they go on for a

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Speaker 1: few months, it doesn't really do anything until Zokan, who's

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Speaker 1: the radical student organization, goes rogue. And the important than

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Speaker 1: is that like so ay, they're not directly tied to

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Speaker 1: any of the parties and be they are like way

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00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: more willing to fight the cops than anyone else here.

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Speaker 1: And so the People's Council is planning is like massive

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Speaker 1: series of protests. But so Gokaran looks at like, you know,

561
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: this is like their eighth Giant protests, and Karan goes, okay,

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00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: well those did nothing, so this one was don't at

563
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Speaker 1: you anything either. So they form a plan to storm

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Speaker 1: the Japanese Parliament building, and you know, the People's Council

565
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: like finds out about this plan, and they're like trying

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Speaker 1: to stop to go Arend from doing it, but the

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Speaker 1: Arend like negotiates with like the Tokyo's like trade unions,

568
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: and they're able to just do it anyways. So you know,

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Speaker 1: five hundred thousand people across Japan, like eighty thousand people

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Speaker 1: in Tokyo show up to this protests and like in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the march, so go Caron just like

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Speaker 1: charge origins the police barricades, beats back the police and

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Speaker 1: like forces their way into the diet and takes control

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Speaker 1: of it, and you know, and then they hold it

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Speaker 1: for like a day and they leave and people people

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Speaker 1: do not like this, like the you know, like the

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Speaker 1: even like the Socialist and Japanese part Communist Party like

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Speaker 1: condemned them for it, and you know, public opinion turns

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Speaker 1: against them, and there's this whole like disaster and you know,

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Speaker 1: and sing Karran gets like a lot of ship for

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Speaker 1: this because you know, like they stormed that, they stormed

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Speaker 1: the diet building. But you know it's worth remembering that

583
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Speaker 1: like everyone else, like everything else, and where modern factually

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00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: was doing just like didn't work. And What's Karan did

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Speaker 1: here was drew an enormous amount of attention to the movement.

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Speaker 1: And this is and you know that that's actually that's

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Speaker 1: a vital part of like what happens next. And what

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00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: happens next is that the Socialist Party, the Socialist Party

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Speaker 1: does like I think, like the funniest set of political

590
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Speaker 1: tricks I've ever seen in my life, where you know,

591
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Speaker 1: like they have they have this whole thing they want

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Speaker 1: to do where they're trying to just like they're trying

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Speaker 1: to delay the vote because I think if they delay

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Speaker 1: the vote fast enough, like long enough, Kishi will just

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Speaker 1: like get like kick out of the premiership ship by

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00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: his own party. And you know, and this they're able

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00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: to drag this on until like uh nineteen sixty and

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Speaker 1: she she like you know, like she she's own party

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00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: won't let him do a floor vote on the bill

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00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: because like they're mad at him, and so on an

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Speaker 1: equal fourth nineteen seventy, he creates the on Post Special

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00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: Redific Special Measures Committee from loyal DP members, which was

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Speaker 1: called the nickname the on Po Kama Kaze Squad, which is,

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00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: you know that this is his attempt to try to

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Speaker 1: figure out like how to like get through all of

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Speaker 1: like get this like treaty through before his support collapse

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00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,239
Speaker 1: and like the diet session ends, and like literally the

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Speaker 1: day the session is gonna end and he's gonna lose

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Speaker 1: his opportunity to force his vote through. H he he

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Speaker 1: starts doing his plan. And that's the Socialist Party like, no,

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Speaker 1: something's bad is going to happen. So that they hire

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Speaker 1: a bunch of like quote unquote secretaries who they they

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Speaker 1: they hire them and they bring them in the building

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Speaker 1: and they barricade the office of the Speaker of the

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Speaker 1: Lower House to keep him from leaving his office. Where

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00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: something that like I wish like our politicians were like

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Speaker 1: it's like man and our pol our politics just like

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Speaker 1: our parliament's so boring. Like nobody nobody's barricading the Speaker

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Speaker 1: of the House like in their office. It's very sad,

620
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: you know, and and this and the speaker like tells

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Speaker 1: them to move and they don't, and so he calls

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Speaker 1: the police to remove the socialist diever Is by force.

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Speaker 1: And this is a huge deal, um, like this is

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Speaker 1: this is the second time ever that the police have

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00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: ever entered the Diet chamber and it's the only time

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Speaker 1: before sense they've ever like physically removed Diet members. And

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00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: so you know, this whole thing is being being being

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Speaker 1: like broadcasting l TV. And there's there's the police just

629
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Speaker 1: like dragging these like parliament members out of this building,

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00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: like kicking and screaming and like you know, and and

631
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Speaker 1: they catch like the speaker like fighting his way to

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Speaker 1: the rostroom and he calls a vote to extend the

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Speaker 1: diet session like two minutes before it's supposed to end,

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Speaker 1: and like he wins the vote, and there's the camera.

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Speaker 1: The camera is like it shows, it pans, it shows

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00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: all the LDP like ministers clapping, and then it pans

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Speaker 1: and it pans to the other half the diet and

638
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: they half to the the Diet. Every single person in the

639
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,719
Speaker 1: opposition is gone. There's none of them are there. And

640
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: because the opposition is completely gone, Keis, she makes this

641
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: like unexpected snap vote to force the treaty through with

642
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: no debate, and you know, because of some like legal bullshit,

643
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: she's able to figure out a way that like the

644
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: treaty will still go into effect even without the Upper

645
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: House approving it as long as they just stay in session.

646
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: And the Japanese public like just they're unbelievably piste off.

647
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: Like even the pro treaty people look at like the

648
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: ex fascist guy like removing the opposition party by force

649
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: and holding a previously unknown Yeah, like like like they

650
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: watched like all of this. It's just on TV and

651
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: it's like like it sets off three general strikes, and

652
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: you know at this point that the protests basically become

653
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: an anti quishing movements, and like everyone in the country

654
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,239
Speaker 1: like including that the conservative newspapers are calling for him

655
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: to resignedly because the business leaders turn on him to

656
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: the point where like they start fundings and Gokuduren like

657
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: they start funding the communist student movement through like weird

658
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: organized crime people because they're like Santo Karen's mainstream faction

659
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: is anti is anti Kishi, like yeah, and that's how

660
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: like wild this and you know, and like the other

661
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: thing is like like ordinary people just like start showing

662
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 1: at the protests and so like like thirty million people,

663
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: which is like a third of the total population shows

664
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: up to like an anti Kishi protest between sixty Jesus Christ. Yeah,

665
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 1: it's like it piste off and this is this is

666
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: like this is the defining events of like the sort

667
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: of like the media postwar generation, like this is the

668
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: thing they remember. Um. Like so we'll get to this

669
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: in a little bit. But Shinzo Abe, who was the

670
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 1: longest serving Japanese prime minister, he he came out office

671
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 1: like last year. So he's Kishi's grandson and he talks

672
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: about like, yeah, he learned politics like like while he

673
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: was on Kishi's knee and Kishi was telling him about

674
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 1: what was happening in the streets. Yeah, it's yeah, that's

675
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 1: not great. And you know, you know this part though,

676
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: is extremely like that there's there there's a great story

677
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: about just like is kindergartener like on the street who

678
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 1: asked the famous political sciences? Is she Takashi? Why doesn't

679
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: Kishi just resign already like he's lost the kinder gardeners. Yeah,

680
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: and you know the other thing. The other thing is

681
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: happening with this is that so Eisenhower's supposed to show

682
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: up in Japan um on the nineteenth so he can

683
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: be there for for the twenty one, which is supposed

684
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: to he's goming to this giant visit that is supposed

685
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: to be like the hundredth anniversary of diplomatic relations between

686
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: the US and Japan. And this is also the treaty

687
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: goes into effect. And so you know, you on June fourth,

688
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: there's the largest general strike in Japanese history, and then

689
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: on the fifteenth there's another general strike at a six

690
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 1: point four million people in it. And at this strike,

691
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of like street performers, artists and

692
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: writers like go to like give a petition to the

693
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: to the parliament, and they all get attacked by this

694
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: like giant fascist mob like wooden poles with nails in them,

695
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: and the moms is changing because he will kill you

696
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: and beat and we and beat them dead. Yeah. Like

697
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: eight people are in and again like these are like

698
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:07,919
Speaker 1: these are like like theater actresses, fashions and stuff. It's like, ah, yes,

699
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 1: we will, we will beat these theater actresses and poets

700
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: and this this this, this, this will make us strong. Yeah,

701
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: eleven people are injured and eleven and eight people are

702
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: injured and leven people get hospitalized, and meanwhile Cokaran is like,

703
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: we're going to storm the diet again, and you know, yeah,

704
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: well but one of these this time it does work.

705
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: And it works because so they fight the cops for

706
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: a long time and it's kind of a stalemate and

707
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: the compstitute is kind of attacked. But in this kind

708
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: of attack, they trample a Tokyo University undergrad name Comba

709
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 1: Minchiko to death, and that, yeah, that causes the crowd

710
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: to just like go wild because you know, the police

711
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: just trampled a child to death. And so four thousand

712
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: students storm the diet and they hold it into one

713
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: am in these like running street battles with the police,

714
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: and this is where like like everyone turns on Kishi,

715
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: like the company sation of the cops like murdered a

716
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: girl and they beat up a bunch of theater actresses.

717
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: It's just too much. And at this point it becomes

718
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: clear that, you know, if Eisenhower comes to Japan, they

719
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: won't be able to keep him safe because they can't

720
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: hold the Yeah, that that could be a little bit

721
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: of a faux pas for Japan, you know, and and

722
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: you know Kishi. Kishi like really wants us to happen,

723
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: because like Eisenhower visit in the treaty, like this is

724
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: this is like all this is like this is this

725
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: is everything he's been working for since he became Prime minister.

726
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: And so he has this plan to like mobilize the

727
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 1: self defense forces, which is what the Japanese armies called

728
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 1: because euphemisms. Yeah, but she so he tries to like

729
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: he has his plan to like mobilize an entire division

730
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 1: of like the army and march them through the streets

731
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: to clear the streets and get Eisenhower in, and even

732
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: like his like his his defense chief and the head

733
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: of the National Police is like, you can't do this,

734
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: like there will literally be an uprising. And so she's

735
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,439
Speaker 1: like she she undeterred, is like okay, so I'm gonna

736
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to my Yakusa contacts. So he goes

737
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: to Kodama and he has he has his plan to

738
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 1: get eighteen thousand like Yack is a hardliners, like ten

739
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: thousand guys who worked for Yaka is like street vendors

740
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: and ten thousand like veterans, right we cult members to

741
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: clear the streets and like he's gonna give them, like

742
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: the government's going to give them like trucks and like

743
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 1: food and first aid teams and like command post and

744
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,720
Speaker 1: two point three million dollars and like airplanes and helicopters

745
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: that couldn't end badly sure, yeah, well, and even his

746
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: cabinet is like, Kishi, you can't do this, like you're

747
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: gonna start a civil war again, and a lot of

748
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: fascists being like, boy, seems like that's too much fascism. Yeah, yeah, Kishi,

749
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: Kishi is like Kishi is the fascist that other fascists

750
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 1: are like, whoa hey, now, like this's just too much fascism.

751
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: But you know what's not too much fascism, Chris, Unless

752
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: it's a black rifle coffee then it's another black rifle

753
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: coffee head or an ex On mobile ad or um

754
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: one of those weird Christian cult ads we've been kind

755
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: of getting. There was a literal ad for the California

756
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: Highway Patrol. Yeah, definitely an ad for chips. That's fascism.

757
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I've lost I've I've lost the

758
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: point that I was trying to make fascist ads. But

759
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: it's time for ads and we're sorry if it's something

760
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 1: random we didn't select and it's horrifying. We do apologize. Uh,

761
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: we live in an engine of pain. Here's some ads,

762
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: Uh good stuff. Well we had some ads. All right.

763
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,479
Speaker 1: I want to hear how this all gets resolved. Now

764
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: that this guy has been like, what if we? What

765
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: if we? What if we? What do we? Twist that

766
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: fascism dial up to eleven? And all of his friends

767
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,439
Speaker 1: were like, that kind of seems a little bit high

768
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: because it seems like we've pissed everybody off with all

769
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: of the violence we've been doing. Yeah, yeah, you know

770
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: it ends. I'm not gonna say well, but you know,

771
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: eventually backs down and it's just like okay, Eisenhower like,

772
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: if you come, we can't protect you. And so Eisenhower

773
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: Kansas visit and on the day of the trees is

774
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: supposed to be ratified, three hundred thousand people show up

775
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,720
Speaker 1: around the diet in Tokyo. But you know, they can't

776
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: actually stop the tree from being ratified, and so, you know,

777
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 1: because the tree is being ratified automatically, there's something they

778
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: can do, and so they sort of they stand there

779
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: and you know, it's a very sort of grim scene.

780
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: Everyone's wearing black arm bands, like black bandanas to celebrate,

781
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: you know what sort of mourn like the death of

782
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: the protester. But you know, there's nothing they can really do.

783
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: Like the next day there's a general strike and there's

784
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: like some more protests the day after. But she she,

785
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: she she has the final document he needs to sign,

786
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: like smuggle to him in a candy box so it

787
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: couldn't be stolen by protesters. Yeah, and so he signs it,

788
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: and you know, like the next month on on July fifteen,

789
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: Kish is forced to resign and the movement just collapses.

790
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's it's a mixed bag. Like

791
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: on the one hand, they got Kishi. This is this

792
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: is only consequence that Keishi's ever going to face his

793
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: entire Like that's not quite true. It's one of exactly

794
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: two consequences ever going to face in his entire life,

795
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: and he survives both of them. And but you know,

796
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: on the other hand, like this treaty still went through,

797
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: and you know, the sort of left that had built

798
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: out to stop this becomes a chord of a demoralized

799
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: and they spritan, they splinter and fragments and yeah, and

800
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: she you know, because this is the end of Kishi's

801
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: like mainstream political career. Um. But you know, he he

802
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,240
Speaker 1: doesn't go away. He still he sort of stays around

803
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: behind the scenes as this like it's kind of like

804
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: this fixer and you know, and he he does, he

805
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 1: does a few more things at the end of the war.

806
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: The end of the sounds like he's kind of nixoned

807
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: a little bit where he's he's got some he's got

808
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 1: some soft influence, but also nobody wants to really be

809
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: seen in public with the guy. Yeah, well, okay, I

810
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: will say that there are a few people who do

811
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: want to be be seen in public with this guy,

812
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: and the biggest of those is called the Unification Church,

813
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: which is just like shit, yeah, yeah, fanatically anti communist

814
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: religious pates. Yeah that that allegedly kidnaps and brainwashes children

815
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 1: allegedly allegedly. Yeah, and Keish like so ke she she

816
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,959
Speaker 1: is the guy responsible for bringing these people like into

817
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: the LDPS base, like like the head of the head

818
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: of this guy the party's got named Moon and he

819
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 1: like she gets evicted convicted of tax fraud in the

820
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: nineties or in the eighties and nineties. But you know,

821
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: there's a thing in Japan. By the end, the guys

822
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: convicted in the U S and there's a thing in

823
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: Japanese law where like, if you've been convicted of a crime,

824
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: you can't enter the country now. So this should have

825
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: stopped moon from coming too Japan. But like the Vice president,

826
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: you know, even like even even in the nineties, like

827
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: the Moonies are still like so firmly embedded in the

828
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: LDP that even in the nineties, like like the vice

829
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 1: the Vice President of Japan personally intercedes and allows him

830
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: to enter the country illegally, and it's yeah, it's great,

831
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: this is this, this is what kes she's doing, and

832
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 1: it sort of like last days. Yeah, and you know,

833
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: one other thing, one very weird thing happens at the

834
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: very end of this, which is that the day before

835
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: he resigns, she's at this like dinner gala, and this

836
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: dude stabs him like six times, and then he gives

837
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:33,280
Speaker 1: this extremely weird quote that was like like it's something

838
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: it's something like, yeah, I stabbed him six times, but

839
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:38,439
Speaker 1: if I was trying to kill him, he would be dead.

840
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 1: And there's there's all this and nobody actually knows why

841
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 1: he tried to assassinate Kishi or didn't try to assassinate

842
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 1: him and said just stabbed him six times. Um, there's

843
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: a lot of theories, like the guy was like an

844
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: old fascist from like the thirties. He's like sixty at

845
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: this point, and you know, his stated response was that

846
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 1: he talked to the family of like the the girl

847
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: that had died. But it doesn't make any sense because

848
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 1: like this guy is a fascist. And there's another theory

849
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Speaker 1: that like this is a yak is a hit because

850
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Speaker 1: um Bambaka oh no, like was piste off that Kishi

851
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Speaker 1: wouldn't help them be prime ministers. So he was just like, Okay,

852
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: I'll send the guy to stab you. I don't know that. Yeah,

853
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,359
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of very weird theories about this,

854
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: but you know, it's sort of unclear what happens, and

855
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: you know, Kishi Kishi survives this. And you know, even

856
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:34,320
Speaker 1: even though the LDP like is now Kishi lists quote unquote,

857
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: the structures and political organizations that he put in place

858
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: are you know, they're they're still here to this day.

859
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Speaker 1: And that brings us to Kishi's grandson, Shinzo Abe, the

860
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:46,800
Speaker 1: longest surfing prime minister in Japanese history. Who uh finally

861
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Speaker 1: left office last year because of an ulcer and his rectum,

862
00:44:51,000 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 1: which you know, critical support did. No, it's not good

863
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:06,839
Speaker 1: when I laugh in unison with Robert. Sometimes good things

864
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: happen to good people. Yeah, Now is a member of

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Speaker 1: a group called Nippon Kagai, which is a fascist group that,

866
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Speaker 1: according to a US Congressional report, believes that quote, Japan

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Speaker 1: should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia from

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Speaker 1: western colonial powers, that the nineteen forty six and nineteen

869
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: forty eight Tokyo War crimes tribunals were illegitimate, and that

870
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: the killings by Japanese troops in the nineteen thirties seven

871
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: n Jing massacre were exaggerated or fabricated. And they also

872
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: openly call for a restoration of the monarchy and institution

873
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: of Shinto is a state religion. And and Abbe himself

874
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: has like repeatedly stated that Japanese military sex slaves. You

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00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: use the term comfort woman because you know, the euphemisms

876
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: helping to de nihilism. But he, you know, he like

877
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: has said on multiple occasions that these sex slaves were

878
00:45:53,920 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: never forced to be raped. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,

879
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: And he's also he's also a big champion. He's like

880
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 1: the the champion of like so one of the she's

881
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: like other signature issue when he was a politician was

882
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,720
Speaker 1: rearming Japan because he was piste off that like Japan

883
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 1: couldn't still be a like and when I said to

884
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: help me in defense works like he wants like he

885
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: wants Japan. He wants Japan again to have an effective

886
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: military that can invade ship. Yeah yeah, yeah, it wasn't

887
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: one that he wants to be an empire again. And

888
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: Obbe is also like a giant rearmamant person. Yeah. And

889
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 1: he also he visits something called a shrine called the

890
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: Yasukune Shrine, which is the shrine just like soldiers who

891
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: died serving the Japanese emperor. And you know this, the

892
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: shrine has this this thing called the Book of Souls,

893
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 1: which like has the name of like everyone who died

894
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: like serving for the emperor or whatever is like Chilian

895
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: people in it. Now in this book are a thousand

896
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: and sixty eight people who were convicted of war crimes

897
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: and also the fourteen Class A war criminals who died

898
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: were executed who are also considered murders. And this includes

899
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: to Joe, It's it's yeah. And you know, now, for

900
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: very obvious reasons, China and Korea, and both the Koreas,

901
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: this is like the one of the few things both

902
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: Korea's like really completely agree on is that they get

903
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: absolutely piste off about prime minisioners visiting their shrine, visiting

904
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: you know, a shrine to the people who enslaved, rape

905
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: and murdered tens of billions of their people. But you know,

906
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 1: I'll did it anyways, because modern Japan is Kishi's Japan.

907
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: Despite the protests, despite the strikes, despite a third of

908
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: the country taking to the streets, but he won. The

909
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: only thing he didn't get was the armament, and so

910
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: you know, the mass rapes and Korean Vietnam will be

911
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: left to the Americans and not the Japanese. But we

912
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:41,319
Speaker 1: all now live in the world that Kishi created. Yeah, right,

913
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 1: a happy story. Yeah, you know, I promised at the

914
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of this episode, at the end of

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00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: the episodes, I would ask you, is this the worst

916
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 1: rehabilitation of a fascist war criminal in terms of like

917
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: the actual amount of power he got? Probably? Yeah, I

918
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: think I think probably, um, Because yeah, you've got like

919
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: guys like von Braun, but like von Braun was bad

920
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: and it's fucked up that he get rehabilitated. But the

921
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 1: thing he went on to do wasn't bad. It was

922
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: putting helping to put a man on the moon, which

923
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: is like fine, um, and you've got I don't know.

924
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,359
Speaker 1: There's that Nazi general who the CIA used to set

925
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: up Aspy Ring and he did some fucked up stuff,

926
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: but I think had certainly had less geopolitical influence than

927
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: this guy. Yeah, I think this. This is definitely I'm

928
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: racking my brain, but I'm not coming up with with

929
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 1: one to top it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Should have started

930
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: this episode with what's rehabilitating my fascists? That would have

931
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: been better. And it turns out the what is my government?

932
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,720
Speaker 1: You love to see it? You love to see it? Well, Chris,

933
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: that is that the entire thing? What do you what

934
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: do you? What do you Chris about that? To be honest,

935
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: what do you good? What do you? What do you?

936
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,439
Speaker 1: What do you? What do you think Nicholas Cage's hair

937
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: smells like Nicholas Cage's hair? Yeah? What do you think

938
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: his hair smells like? I've been looking at a picture

939
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: of him for the last three hours that explains so much. Chris,

940
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: you have, I have, I have a I don't. I don't.

941
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: I don't think it smells very good because, like you know,

942
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: isn't Nicolas, because isn't he constantly like doing bad movies

943
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: because he needs money for just like like an elephant happening.

944
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:34,240
Speaker 1: He's like some weird No, he's addicted to buying dinosaurs. Cope,

945
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Yeah, yeah, okay. I think his

946
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 1: hair smells like nail polished remover with a hint of pop. See.

947
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: I was gonna say fake apples, but like the specific

948
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: fake apple smell that they put in like agricultural products,

949
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: like medicine for horses, Like i'ver mectin fake apples. That's fair,

950
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,720
Speaker 1: hint of poop. I don't know. We'll see if you've

951
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 1: smelled Nicolas Cage. Hit us up on social media, let

952
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: us know, tell us who's right. One of us has

953
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: to be. You might be right, though. I think it

954
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: might smell like that really bad apple flavored like alcohol. Also, yeah,

955
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: a little bit of that, a little bit of that.

956
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll see. We'll see someone out there

957
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 1: has smelled Nicolas Cage's hair, and they'll let us know

958
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: who's right, Let us know that's really really that way.

959
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,800
Speaker 1: We're not just we're not just staring at a photo

960
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: of Nicholas that because it was. It's been a long day, Sophie.

961
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 1: Everybody needs something to, you know, perk them up. Halfway point.

962
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: Look at the midway point of the day. Some people

963
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: have another cup of coffee. Some people stare wordlessly at

964
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: a photograph of Nicolas Cage while their friend talks about

965
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: war crimes for three hours. Chris, where can people follow you? Uh? Yeah,

966
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: you can follow me being extremely depressed about this at

967
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: me see h R three on Twitter. Um if you

968
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: want to read a slightly less depressing thing that I wrote, Um,

969
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,320
Speaker 1: I wrote a piece for laus On that's like about Tieneman,

970
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,919
Speaker 1: which I swear is less depressing than this, if only

971
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: sort of marginally. Um yeah yeah. I also, I I work.

972
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Speaker 1: I work for cool Zone now, so I'm on a

973
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of other things. Yeah. You can't

974
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: get rid of me now, nope. So have a good

975
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: day and remember tell us what Nicholas Cage's hair smells like. Yeah,