Christopher Perkins is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has written on the pre- and post-war student movement in Japan and his work has appeared in journals including The European Journal of Social Theory, Global Society, Television and New Media, The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, and Asiatische Studien, as well as in numerous edited collections. His previous book on Japan’s radical left and the media, The United Red Army on Screen, was published by Palgrave in 2015.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Problem of order in postwar Japan.- Chapter 3: The bright society, public security and the Tokyo University struggle.- Chapter 4: Mass Arrest, Mass Prosecution, Mass Detention.- Chapter 5: Establishing and Contesting Procedure.- Chapter 6: Court Room Battles along Parallel Lines.- Chapter 7: Words, feelings, and life in the state’s perpetual present.- Chapter 8: Epilogue.

Christopher Perkins is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has written on the pre- and post-war student movement in Japan and his work has appeared in journals including The European Journal of Social Theory, Global Society, Television and New Media, The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, and Asiatische Studien, as well as in numerous edited collections. His previous book on Japan’s radical left and the media, The United Red Army on Screen, was published by Palgrave in 2015.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Problem of order in postwar Japan.- Chapter 3: The bright society, public security and the Tokyo University struggle.- Chapter 4: Mass Arrest, Mass Prosecution, Mass Detention.- Chapter 5: Establishing and Contesting Procedure.- Chapter 6: Court Room Battles along Parallel Lines.- Chapter 7: Words, feelings, and life in the state’s perpetual present.- Chapter 8: Epilogue.

Christopher Perkins is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has written on the pre- and post-war student movement in Japan and his work has appeared in journals including The European Journal of Social Theory, Global Society, Television and New Media, The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, and Asiatische Studien, as well as in numerous edited collections. His previous book on Japan’s radical left and the media, The United Red Army on Screen, was published by Palgrave in 2015.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Problem of order in postwar Japan.- Chapter 3: The bright society, public security and the Tokyo University struggle.- Chapter 4: Mass Arrest, Mass Prosecution, Mass Detention.- Chapter 5: Establishing and Contesting Procedure.- Chapter 6: Court Room Battles along Parallel Lines.- Chapter 7: Words, feelings, and life in the state’s perpetual present.- Chapter 8: Epilogue.