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Koji Wakamatsu commented for 11:25, that while youths in the 1960s had the passion and innocence to resist state power with their lives, such youths no longer exist. This paper explains that while pacifist liberal social movements have re-emerged to protest the Abe administration’s support of U.S. imperialism, we are lacking in the ability to ask fundamental questions regarding imperialist governance and set our theories into practice. Furthermore, he questions, while the today’s pacifist youths in Japan tend to make rightist arguments, should they not have the courage to lay down their lives and confront the trends of their time in order to make such statements, as Mishima and Morita did? Wakamatsu, by depicting the 1960s in a documentary style, positively portrays the passion, innocence, and activism of youths that no longer exists today. Despite this, a question remains: According to Wakamatsu’s logic, if the anti-imperialist terrorism of the Palestine liberation movement is to be permitted, should the IS’s coordinated terrorist attacks on Paris, France be permitted, or should they be criticized?

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