Based on an essay by Masayuki Takayama, this chapter depicts the origin of the professional agitator in postwar Japan and the destructive methods such figures employed.
Focusing on Kantaro Ogura, an activist from the University of Tokyo, it sharply exposes how leftist activism infiltrated companies such as Mitsukoshi and Japan Air Lines, incited female employees, and sought to destroy firms while spreading social unrest.

2019-03-26
Unlike the Chinese professional agitators, Ogura took no money.
It was enough to destroy companies, spread social unrest, and drive Japan into ruin.
That was the true vocation of the Japanese Communist Party.
Ogura next entered Japan Air Lines.

The chapter I released on September 17, 2017 under the title, “Tracing the roots of the professional agitator leads to a stylish University of Tokyo student named Kantaro Ogura,” has now entered the top ten in search rankings.
Needless to say, this is an essay by Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
What follows is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The business owner did not seem to be troubled to that extent, and merely replied, “We are having a hard time with the professional agitators.”
A professional agitator is a fixer who finds Japanese-affiliated companies, incites their employees, and makes them stage demonstrations demanding better待遇 and higher wages.
When the company gives in and raises wages by some percentage, he takes a success fee corresponding to that and departs in search of the next Japanese-affiliated company to be made his prey.
Tracing the roots of the professional agitator leads to a stylish University of Tokyo student named Kantaro Ogura.
After launching campus unrest at Komaba, he remained a University of Tokyo student while slipping into one company after another, instigating strikes and walking away after ruining them.
Among them was Mitsukoshi.
He was handsome.
With his special ability to seize women’s hearts, he drove the female employees into strike action.
That was the Mitsukoshi labor dispute at the end of 1951.
Female shop clerks formed picket lines at the main entrance with the lion statues and repeatedly clashed with riot police.
Unlike the Chinese professional agitators, Ogura took no money.
It was enough to destroy companies, spread social unrest, and drive Japan into ruin.
That was the true vocation of the Japanese Communist Party.
Ogura next entered Japan Air Lines.
It was a company that had only just been established with strong government backing as the base for rebuilding “Aviation Japan,” which had been crushed by GHQ.
Posing as an elite management-track recruit from the University of Tokyo and becoming chairman of the labor union, Ogura first seduced the female employees, using exactly the same technique he had used at Mitsukoshi.
He even had stewardesses line up on the main street of Ginza and march in demonstrations.
Shizumaro Matsuo, the president who had staked everything on rebuilding aviation, was shocked by the disorder at his feet and tried to persuade Ogura, but Ogura would not listen.
When labor-management confrontation reached its peak amid a string of idiotic demands such as giving out pantyhose for free and making menstrual leave one full week, Matsuo’s daughter fell gravely ill with leukemia.
Ogura took advantage of that.
He kept up all-night collective bargaining and cornered Matsuo, and dawn came with no compromise reached.
As a result, Matsuo was unable to be present at his daughter’s deathbed.
When the stewardesses learned this, they wept and left Ogura’s side.
Japan’s professional agitators could not fully make use of women.
This article continues.