This section examines the fear that drove postwar intellectuals to advocate “comprehensive peace.”
By tracing concerns over communist revolution, the 1932 Comintern Thesis, black-market privileges under occupation, and financial ties to the Socialist Party, it exposes the unspoken constraints shaping postwar Japanese discourse.

Another point is that I think there was a kind of fear behind Nanbara and others waving the banner of “comprehensive peace.”.
2016-11-21.
The following continues from the previous section..
Watabe.
Another point is that I think there was a kind of fear behind Nanbara and others waving the banner of “comprehensive peace.”.
Since Japan, which should never have lost a war, did lose, they may have thought that a revolution could occur sooner or later..
If that happened, a Communist Party regime would, in accordance with the “1932 Thesis” issued by the Comintern (the world revolutionary movement) in Showa 7, purge right-wing forces..
Fearing such purges, cultural figures who wrote did not write things that deviated from the “Thesis,” and they also stopped making such statements..
There may have been such an implicit constraint..
I believe the reason the Socialist Party opposed a separate peace treaty was, in addition to what I have just said, because resident Koreans opposed it..
As for why resident Koreans opposed it, as Kusaka has probably often experienced, it was because under the occupation they could freely engage in black-market activities..
The police cracked down on Japanese engaging in black-market business, but they turned a blind eye to the black markets run by Koreans and Koreans from the Korean Peninsula..
In my hometown of Tsuruoka, black-market rice trading was also seen, but Koreans were treated leniently..
Even Hajime Kida, a renowned researcher of Heidegger’s philosophy, worked as a porter to support his family..
As he also said in my dialogue book Jinseiryoku ga Un o Yobu (Chichi Publishing), trains carrying black-market dealers were packed to overflowing, and the police would board them. However, he said that even though there were only four or five people in the cars carrying Korean black-market dealers, they were not inspected..
When such profits existed, what would happen if Japan recovered its independence?.
Sovereignty would return to the Japanese police..
Then they would be able to crack down on what were called at the time “third-country nationals.”.
That is why they feared Japan’s recovery of sovereignty..
Therefore, they made enormous donations to the Socialist Party at the time, he said..
Kusaka.
Haha, I didn’t know that..
Watabe.
Those who advocated comprehensive peace at the time continued to nest deeply within what later became the Socialist Party..
I get the impression that this anti-Japanese ideology has flowed into today’s Democratic Party as well..
Now issues such as the construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea, the comfort women issue, and the Senkaku issue are boiling over, and I truly think it is good that this is under the Abe administration..
When I think about what it would be like if this were under a Democratic Party administration, it sends a chill down my spine..
Kusaka.
I agree..