Destiny by Kōji Takazawa

Author:Kōji Takazawa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2017-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

He went on to summarize the Japanese student movement of the past:

Our movement did not gain the sympathy of the Japanese people, nor were we successful in turning it into a popular mass movement…. In short, we could not see the people’s unlimited power, nor did we truly believe in the creative power of the working masses. This fact clearly shows how mistaken we were in our worldview at the time and consequently how erroneous we were in our ideological theory. (pp. 119–120)

He concludes his summary by saying, as a former cadre of the Red Army Faction, “We are responsible for an enormous crime against the Japanese people” (Tamiya 1980, 121).

His words, though apparently a critique of the ideas of the Red Army Faction, are nothing more than an unquestioning espousal of juche ideology and Kim Il Sung’s philosophy. Certainly the Red Army made many mistakes in its struggles, but this analysis does not show the slightest hint of a critical evaluation of North Korea’s juche ideology or an awareness of objective reality; he is merely using the juche point of view to dismiss the Red Army. This has become clear to me now, after retracing the lives and ideological transformations of the Yodogō men during their first ten years in North Korea. Of course, it was their tragedy that they had no alternative. We will have to return to this matter later.

Tamiya wrote briefly about the ten years they had spent in North Korea:

We have been studying juche philosophy for a long time, engaging in debate and ideological struggle, critically examining our past and the present status of the organization to which we once belonged. Finally, we were able to find historical truth and the underlying principles of the social movement; we acquired a deeper, enlightened view of those days, clearly perceiving the mistakes we made as we wandered, groping in the darkness. We think nothing can be more precious, or more satisfying, than this. (Tamiya 1980, 120)

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