Socialist Mass Party leaders celebrating their doubling of seats in the general election. From left: Asō Hisashi, Asanuma Inejirō, and Abe Shigeo. Japan, May 1937.[800 × 591]
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Socialist Mass Party leaders celebrating their doubling of seats in the general election. From left: Asō Hisashi, Asanuma Inejirō, and Abe Shigeo. Japan, May 1937.[800 × 591]
by Realistic-Row4599
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The Socialist Mass Party was a legal proletarian party formed in 1932 through the merger of two parties. In the 1937 general election, it won about 37 of the 466 seats in the House of Representatives, becoming the largest force after the two major parties. Although it initially upheld an anti-fascist and anti-reactionary line, it gradually moved closer to the military. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in particular, figures such as Asō Hisashi and Asanuma Inejirō seized control of the party by ousting its chairman, Abe Isoo. The party ultimately claimed that the status of the proletariat could be improved through full cooperation with the state, declared its support for Konoe Fumimaro’s New Order Movement, and dissolved itself.
Are they intentionally wearing the same outfits, glasses, mustaches and hairstyles as some kind of joke or statement?
Isn’t Asanuma the dude who got killed on live TV by a teenager with a samurai sword?
They’re more like the Asian Marx Brothers…
…Am I racist?