"...We consciously retain the democratic parties, giving them the opportunity to express their opinions, and adopt a policy of both unity and struggle towards them. We must unite with all democratic figures who offer us constructive suggestions in good faith.

 What about those who criticize us? Disunity is fine, but there's no need to suppress it. Let them criticize; if the criticism is unreasonable, we criticize it; if the criticism is justified, we accept it. Communists believe in seeking truth from facts." — Ibaraki Hanafu.

 The fifth area concerns security and military development in the base area. The Japanese Communist Party plans to utilize some of the Soviet aid, as well as confiscated materials from the businesses of the fleeing capitalists, to train a militia. This will be used to maintain internal security and to assist the Kancolle or the People's Revolutionary Army in external combat.

 After the original police system had undergone large-scale reform and replacement, the Japanese Communist Party handed over the task of maintaining public security in the base area to the police system, and the militia was withdrawn and incorporated into the People's Revolutionary Army.

 Regarding the revolutionary army's military management ideas and tactical ideas, in terms of military management ideas, except for some individual changes based on Japan's specific practical conditions, the core is basically the same as that of the Communist Party of China.

 In terms of tactical thinking, due to the differences between Japan and China in terms of humanities and geography, the Japanese Communist Party did not directly copy the tactics of the Chinese Communist Party during the revolutionary war. Instead, it used the tactics of NATO armies that were good at street fighting as a reference for in-depth study.

 At the level of social security, cracking down on illegal and criminal activities and suppressing the remnants of the extreme right-wing forces have become the primary tasks facing the militia.

 The sixth is about the construction in the social and cultural fields. The goal of ideological and cultural construction at the current stage is to eradicate all extreme right-wing ideas such as militarism and fascism.

 The first step is to ask all primary and secondary schools to stop using the current history textbooks, conduct a comprehensive review of the version, and make comprehensive rectifications to the parts that do not conform to historical facts. After the rectification is completed, the new version of history textbooks will be used.

 Secondly, publish propaganda offline and online criticizing the history of aggression, the old Japanese Empire and the current Liberal Democratic Party government, and have grassroots party members carry out anti-war education among the masses through rallies and lobbying.

 Furthermore, all the heresies that advocated that the "Greater East Asia War" and the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" were "just" were banned, and many media outlets that took right-wing or extreme right-wing positions on historical issues were prohibited.

 Then, some tourist attractions and shrines that may be involved in the summoning of militarism were inspected and rectified, such as the Togo Heihachiro residence at the Maizuru Naval Base and the former IJN Maizuru Naval Base, which were successively posted with critical explanations and annotations.

 Finally, some literary and artistic works that deny history and promote militaristic right-wing ideology will be banned and criticized, while the stories and works of left-wing artists such as Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki, Fujiko F. Fujio, Joe Hisaishi, and Ryuichi Sakamoto will be promoted.

 However, when the Japanese Communist Party carried out cultural transformation

 , I encountered a film and television work that was ambiguous in its political nature - called "Ah, Navy".

 There is controversy within the Japanese Communist Party regarding the film "Ah, Navy". Some comrades believe that it is an obvious anti-defeat film, while others believe that it is a more subtle anti-war film.

 The most peculiar thing about this film is that the investors are right-wing, while the director is left-wing. In the end, after the film was made, not only the director but also the investors were satisfied.

 The argument for those who believe it's anti-defeat is that "In the story, Ichirō Hirata, who comes from a poor family and can't afford the high tuition at Tokyo High School, gets accepted into the free Etajima Naval Academy. He goes from being a recalcitrant, unruly young man determined to get into Tokyo High School to a mature, flesh-and-blood soldier of the old Empire. Isn't this glorifying the war of aggression?"

 Those who believe it is anti-war say, "One shouldn't be fooled by superficial appearances. While this may seem true at first glance, there are actually some details in the film that reveal a satirical view of war. Ichiro Hirata initially aspires to become a politician and a passionate young man who wants to solve Japan's social problems. However, in the face of the then-morbid state apparatus, he ultimately becomes a mere victim."

 This precisely reveals the devastation that militarism inflicts on a normal person. On the surface, it praises the loyalty and bravery of the soldiers of the old Japanese Empire, but in fact, it secretly satirizes the reactionary nature behind this so-called loyalty and bravery.

 Furthermore, the film does a great job of capturing the true material and spiritual life of the Japanese people before and during World War II. We all know exactly what life was like for ordinary Japanese citizens back then. A true anti-war, right-wing film wouldn't have realistically portrayed the suffering of ordinary citizens, instead simply spouting lies about Japan's prosperity.

 There is a line in it, which goes, "Smart people can easily become communists." Think about it, think about it carefully.

 Many nationalists in China and South Korea today still feel that Japan was a monolithic nation at that time. They believe that since the majority of the people at that time supported the war, it was understandable to indiscriminately attack the Japanese.

 However, they did not know the real reason why most Japanese citizens supported the war at that time, and this film revealed this secret from the side.

 Regardless of the past or present, the vast majority of ordinary people just want to make ends meet or live a comfortable life. At that time, in Japan, except for military academies, children from ordinary families could not afford to go to other schools, and even if they did go, they would not necessarily find a job.

 Furthermore, the Japanese government at the time virtually monopolized domestic public opinion. Consequently, the vast majority of ordinary people, driven by their livelihoods, flocked to military academies, which provided them with food, lodging, and subsidies. The mass brainwashing machines that Japanese military academies are, are well known to all. In such an environment, it was extremely difficult for individuals to remain unaffected, and even those with greater understanding often chose to remain cautious.

 It's undeniable that despite its biased portrayal, "Ah! Navy" recreates this period of history from the perspective of the villains. Through the short lives of Hirata and Honda, and the gradual decline of those naval academy students into extreme and narrow-minded "political correctness," it illustrates the meaning of "the old society turning people into demons," and indirectly reveals the arrogance, selfishness, and hypocrisy of Japan's aristocrats who caused this.

 I believe this film can be used as a counter-argument to the war, along with critical commentary. It can help those who don't know the truth understand the reasons why nearly all of Japanese society supported the war, thereby removing the erroneous nationalist perspective and examining that evil war.

 Regarding this debate, some comrades in the party asked some of the Kancolle members, such as Hibiki and Ayanami, who were reluctant to express their opinions in order to avoid suspicion. However, under the written assurance of other comrades that this was not a sting operation, they expressed their opinions.

 The members of the Kancolle Party generally support the latter statement. They believe that "Ah, Navy" is an anti-war film that is right-wing in form but left-wing in essence; if the investors were not right-wing, they believe that the director would definitely use a more direct way to reflect the brainwashing and evil of militarism.

 After a long debate, the film was not banned in the end. Instead, in order to prevent ordinary audiences from being misled, some critical annotations and subtitles were added and released on the Internet without affecting the viewing experience.

 Chapter 298 Drunken Butterfly Flower in Kyoto

 In early May, the rebellious ship girls and sailors from Yokosuka moved to Osaka by sea, braving the anti-ship missiles of the Air Self-Defense Force and the Ground Self-Defense Force.

 Although there were several modern missile destroyers in the uprising navy responsible for air defense, the uprising sailors and ship girls still suffered some losses.

 The two destroyers of the uprising sailors sank, and the rest suffered varying degrees of damage. Because the ship girls were all moving in a ship-like manner, the Self-Defense Forces' anti-ship missiles were all aimed at the ordinary warships of the uprising sailors.

 It seems that the Liberal Democratic Party has spared no expense in order to intercept the revolutionary army.

 However, when the rebel forces from Yokosuka entered the Seto Inland Sea and were only tens of kilometers away from Osaka, they were intercepted by the Maritime Self-Defense Force from Kure Port.

 Fortunately, the 3rd Division (now the 1st Division of the Revolutionary Army) at that time also had a surface-to-air missile unit, which helped the rebel forces in Yokosuka intercept nearly half of the anti-ship missiles, otherwise the ordinary ships of the rebel forces would have been in great danger.

 After Yokosuka entered the Kansai revolutionary base and joined forces with the Central Government, the uprising sailors were reorganized into "Japanese

 "National Revolutionary Army Naval Osaka Front."

 Just after the establishment of the Kansai Revolutionary Base, some people in Fukushima who had participated in the riot two years ago, under the secret organization of the Japanese Communist Party, launched an uprising in response to the Kansai side, taking advantage of the fact that the 6th Division of the Ground Self-Defense Force was moving south and not in Fukushima.

 Although Ibaraki Hanaou is from Kansai, her development in the party started in Fukushima and she is quite familiar with the situation in Fukushima. Therefore, she paid almost all attention to the Fukushima uprising and provided remote command.

 Of course, Ibaraki Hanasu knows her own limitations. She would not airdrop a memorandum, let alone say something like increasing the density of the recoilless guns on the barricade by ten points.

 At first, the local police in Fukushima handled the situation according to the previous response plan for the "Fukushima Unknown Incident". However, these police officers soon discovered that something was wrong. The equipment of the "mob" on the opposite side was completely different from that of the previous two years. They were even better than their own people.

 In the Middle East and West Asia, it may be normal for civilian armed forces to have PKM general-purpose machine guns, RPG-7 rocket launchers and SPG-9 recoilless rifles, but in a place like Japan, it is really too shocking.

 However, such a shocking thing became a reality. Under the attack of the anti-tank weapons of the Fukushima uprising armed forces, the special police's light armored vehicles were no different from paper lantern cars.

 When some Fukushima citizens saw that these armed rebels actually had heavy weapons, their morale instantly soared, and they immediately uploaded the news by taking photos and videos to the Internet, where it spread from one person to another.

 After a while, a large number of citizens who had participated in the movement two years ago, after learning the news on the Internet, rushed out of their homes with weapons and confronted the Fukushima police passionately.

 This time, more people took to the streets than last time, probably because the rebel forces were well-equipped and had strong combat effectiveness, which gave these citizens enough courage.

 In this way, the citizens besieged the ordinary police, and the rebels launched a frontal assault on the special police. Thanks to the experience of the previous two years, and the active involvement and leadership of the local Japanese Communist Party organization, both the rebels and the citizens became much more organized.

 Of course, the police officers in Fukushima have not been idle during these two years. In order to be prepared for any eventuality, they have been conducting targeted additional training during this period.

 However, no matter what happened, the Fukushima police had never expected it and did not expect that the rebel forces would have heavy anti-armor weapons. The special police were quickly defeated under the bombardment of rocket launchers and recoilless guns.

 It has become much easier to deal with special police, not to mention the effect when facing ordinary police.

 This allowed the 9th Division of the Ground Self-Defense Force stationed in Aomori Prefecture to arrive at Fukushima for support, and the protesting citizens and rebel armed forces in Fukushima defeated the police and took control of the Fukushima city government.

 After Fukushima City was initially taken control, citizens and Japanese Communist Party rebels began to build barricades to resist the impending siege of the 9th Division.

 Before the counterattack, everyone was discussing whether this would be a repeat of history, ending in failure like two years ago. However, the Japanese Communist Party's well-equipped uprising forces gave these citizens some peace of mind.

 The Fukushima incident two years ago made her see the unyielding revolutionary spirit of the Fukushima people, which moved Eve so much that she gave her utmost material support to the second Fukushima uprising.

 With the lessons learned from the last uprising, the leadership of the Communist Party, and a certain amount of external material assistance, the 9th Division's attack on Fukushima this time was no longer as easy as the 6th Division's previous attack.

 Fukushima has been holding out for over three weeks now, despite repeated attacks from the 9th Division, with both sides suffering casualties. Over these three weeks, the 9th Division has only managed to capture a portion of the outer areas and has yet to enter the city proper.

 The Japanese Communist Party's series of uprisings received mixed reviews in international public opinion. Communists applauded, while bourgeois liberals sneered at it.

 Western developed capitalist countries, led by the United States, naturally responded with all kinds of bad words, agreed with the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party government's definition of the Japanese Communist Party's regime as illegal, expressed their non-recognition of the Japanese Communist Party's regime in various senses, and imposed sanctions.

 Then, the official accounts of the Japanese Communist Party were permanently banned on social networking platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

 Regarding the question of whether the United States will personally intervene, Nakano Hiroharu, the current Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, commented sharply:

 "Right now, the US is just a barking dog. Why? Because if the US turns around and helps the LDP to bite us, then the Deep Sea will further attack the US.

 Having said that, while we strategically despise the United States, we must also tactically take it seriously. The United States will certainly not intervene militarily, but that doesn't mean it won't provide intelligence and information support to the Liberal Democratic Party. I urge all comrades to exercise extreme caution and caution in their operations.

 Public opinion in China is very happy about the socialist revolution in Japan. Most people express excitement and hope that Japanese comrades can successfully seize national power, sweep away all right-wing monsters, reflect on history and then jointly create the future.

 Some people also said that it is too early to be happy, saying that all ideologies are empty and that other socialist countries can still be anti-China, and they cited Vietnam as an example.

 Some nationalists believe that socialism cannot change the Japanese nation's insidious and cunning, bloody and brutal, disrespectful attitude towards teachers and ancestors, and lack of righteousness.

 What else can you say? Don't look at the Japanese Communist Party laughing at China now, it will definitely do so when it develops.

 They bite back at China, saying that some things in their bones cannot be changed.

 What followed was the usual left-right online back-and-forth: internationalists accused nationalists of lacking a class narrative, while nationalists accused internationalists of being naive and childish.

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 In 1869, in order to get rid of the conservative forces in Kyoto, Emperor Meiji changed the name of Edo to Tokyo and moved the capital there. He moved into the palace that once belonged to the Tokugawa family, and here he opened the curtain of the Meiji Restoration.

 But no one at that time had ever imagined that Kyoto, as the base camp of conservative forces, would become an old revolutionary base a hundred years later.

 In 1969, the Zenkyōto Movement spread from the University of Tokyo to Kyoto University. Students on strike held up revolutionary banners and portraits of Mao Zedong and passionately confronted the Kyoto Prefectural Police Mobile Squad on the streets of major urban areas.

 Fifty-four years later, Kyoto became the capital of the Japanese Communist Party's revolutionary base in Kansai. Although the Japanese Communist Party was not a product of the Zenkyōto movement, it did what the students could not do back then: it raised the red flag on the Kyoto City Hall (city hall building).

 In a sense, it can be regarded as inheriting the spirit of the original work and re-creating it, achieving the purpose that the original work failed to achieve in a more advanced form.

 This analogy easily reminds people of literary and artistic creation. When talking about literary and artistic creation, we have to mention a famous animation production company in Kyoto.

 After the Japanese Communist Party took control of Kyoto, it paid close attention to Kyoto Animation in the field of cultural propaganda and immediately found the president of Kyoto Animation for a talk.

 During the conversation, Ibaraki Hanasu expressed indignation over the arson attack on Kyoto Animation a few years ago, and expressed sincere condolences to the victims and affected persons.

 We then consulted on the current situation and problems of contemporary Japanese cultural industries, gained a further understanding of some actual situations, and mentioned the general direction of future literary and artistic creation.

 Regarding the Kyoto Animation president's concerns about cultural regulation, Ibaraki Hanasu replied, "Literary and artistic works must have positive educational significance, must not violate social mores, and must stand on the fundamental standpoint of the vast majority of the people. Only things that are harmful to people need to be regulated."

 The revolutionary activities of the Japanese Communist Party have added a lot of positive and progressive atmosphere to Kyoto, a thousand-year-old ancient city with a long history and culture.

 Now, in other universities such as Kyoto University, Kyoto Sangyo University, and Doshisha University, some students with more progressive ideas have begun to organize themselves, following the example of their predecessors by wearing helmets of various colors and holding banners and billboards such as "Long Live Socialism" and taking to the streets.

 However, what makes these new generations different from their predecessors decades ago is that this time their march is a celebration rather than a protest.

 The elimination of the agricultural cooperatives that hoarded grain, coupled with the arrival of Soviet aid grain, brought new life to many food-related shops in Kyoto.

 However, due to the structure of the food aid, most of the dishes sold in these stores after reopening are noodle-related dishes, and rice-related dishes are much less than before the food prices skyrocketed. Now the Japanese Communist Party is also trying to find a way to solve the current situation where noodles account for too large a proportion.

 In an old street in Kyoto, there were more visitors than usual, perhaps because left-wing students took to the streets to celebrate and parade.

 This street is quite important in this area. In order to prevent the Self-Defense Forces from launching a large-scale attack on Kyoto, there are some construction teams commissioned by the Japanese Communist Party on the street. They are building barricades and other defensive fortifications in some key locations, and some college students wearing helmets are helping them.

 "Well, this way, those reactionaries' tanks won't be able to drive in!" A college student wearing a nuclear-armed cap was admiring the anti-tank cones he had helped the workers build at the street corner.

 Another university student nearby jokingly said, "This street was originally off-limits to motor vehicles. Now, it's gone from a rule prohibition to a physical prohibition."

 "If there is no physical prohibition, do we have to expect the enemy tanks to obey traffic rules? Come to think of it, I've been doing volunteer work for so long that I'm a little hungry. Mr. Ishikawa, how about having a meal first?" The college student wearing a nuclear hat yawned.

 Ishikawa nodded and said, "I'm the same. I always get hungry quickly when I do manual labor. Let's go, Katayama-kun. Let's just find a small restaurant on this street and eat."

 The two hit it off immediately, put down what they were holding, and walked around the pedestrian street looking for shops.

 Suddenly, Ishikawa noticed something and patted the shoulder of the classmate next to him and reminded him: "Look, there is a silver-haired beauty over there. I wonder if she is cosplaying or a foreigner."

 When Katayama heard the word "beautiful", he immediately looked up and saw a silver-haired beauty. However, he didn't even glance at her for a second before a look of pity appeared on his face. "Her orange eyes must be cosplay. She's pretty, but she's a flat face."

 "Well...she went into an izakaya." Ishikawa saw her walk into an izakaya.

 "What are you standing there for? Follow me." Katayama pulled Ishikawa and ran quickly to catch up.

 Ishikawa shamelessly complained, "Wait a minute, you're not asking for her contact information, are you? Are there any girls who would be interested in us civil engineering majors?"

 "Don't talk nonsense, watching is also a kind of enjoyment!"

 The two ran to the izakaya that the silver-haired beauty had just entered, and only then did they see the sign on the izakaya. There were three Chinese characters on the sign, and below it was a whale in the style of Ukiyo-e.

 "What... Tun Ting?" Katayama looked at the three Chinese characters on the sign. The first one

 Chinese characters are quite complicated and he doesn't recognize them.

 "Nitunting," said Ishikawa, who was better at Chinese. "The first character means whale."

 "The store doesn't look big, but its name is quite impressive..." Katayama curled his lips.

 After that, the two of them walked in through the sliding door at the entrance of the store.

 Chapter 299 Drunken Butterfly Flower in Kyoto (2)

 The silver-haired, orange-eyed beauty who caught Ishikawa and Katayama's attention was actually Eve. The two university students, drawn to this beautiful woman, came to this izakaya.

 The place was already packed. In addition to some people from society, there were also many college students who were also wearing helmets like him, sitting in the store chatting loudly and enjoying food and wine.

 In the impression of many people from other countries, Japanese people are generally reserved, polite and indifferent, giving people a sense of distance, which is in sharp contrast to the enthusiastic Chinese who are carefree and unconcerned about details.

 But in fact, Japanese people can also be like the latter. Although Japan is small, there are still cultural differences. The cultural customs and customs of the Kansai and Kanto regions are quite different.

 The general impression of Japanese people by other countries mentioned above is generally based on the Kanto people; while most Kansai people are the opposite; Kansai people are relatively cheerful and enthusiastic, and speak directly without too much beating around the bush.

 That's why this izakaya is quite lively, but it's still nowhere near as lively as a Chinese teahouse.

 "Hello, welcome! We are currently fully booked. You can take away whatever you want to eat!" A waitress who was serving dishes in the restaurant greeted customers warmly when she saw them coming in.

 Katayama, who was watching Eve sitting down not far away, looked at the waitress who called him and responded with "Hmm".

 After the waitress walked away, Ishikawa smiled and said to Katayama, "This waitress is pretty good-looking too, with breasts. Unlike the one just now who was flat and looked like a washboard, right?"

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