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Tue 08 Aug 2008Popularity of 1933 Marxist novel a sign that Japan's young are hungry for radical change
JAPAN:Millions of Japan's workforce are learning how to live on shrinking wages and diminished expectations, writes David McNeillin Tokyo
"WE'RE GOING to hell!," shouts a Japanese fisherman as he boards a factory ship bound for freezing waters off Russia, a warning that proves all too true. The sailor and his comrades, a mix of sea-hardened veterans, university students and poor farm boys, are beaten and exploited by sadistic foremen and greedy bosses. When they form a union and strike, the army stomps aboard and brutally puts it down.
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