Portrait of the Adversary--The Silent One Who Embraces Ni-Ni-VI (Reverberations of the 1970s)

Portrait of the Adversary--The Silent One Who Embraces Ni-Ni-VI (Reverberations of the 1970s)

The young officers of the Nineteen Seventies were not only the ghosts of the young officers of the Nineteen Twenty-Six Incident, but also the political aphasics of the 1970s. These words emanate from a place where the ghosts of the young officers of the Nii-26 Incident and the political aphasia of the 1970s overlap. The attempted coup of 1936 was quelled between ideals and madness, and lives were taken in the name of loyalty. Their tragedy was a record of a multilayered psyche, where anger at the state and contradictory love for the emperor cohabited.

Then, in the 1970s - a time when the student movement was defeated and the revolution became a memory of frustration. The narrator, unable to challenge even the system and unable to turn away from his own cowardice and compromise, was confronted with the nihilism of the revolution. He gave up even blaming the state and continued to blame himself. This is not the "death" of the officers of the past, but the "contrition of the survivors.

If treason is not rebellion against others but judgment against oneself, then all the youth of the 1970s may have been the grave-keepers of the revolution in silence.