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Suffering Forces Us to Think beyond the Right–Left Barrier

Amamiya Karin is a writer with a complex and interesting relation to the notion of fandom. She came to the media’s attention as the subject of a 1999 film documentary about an ultranationalist punk band, of which she was a member. Since then, she has attracted wide notice and a wide following as a spokesperson for a generation that increasingly feels left behind. Amamiya was born in 1975 in Hokkaido and now resides in Tokyo. She is a prolific writer and speaker with an agenda that has its roots in her own background: she has written extensively about her own personal history of ijime (being bullied at school), self-mutilation, and multiple suicide attempts, relating her own experiences to a wider trend of “suffering” (ikitzurasa) among members of Japan’s “lost generation.” Her early sense of loss, economic instability, and lack of direction led her to seek comfort and a sense of belonging in Japanese nationalism, and she became a member of the rightwing organization Totsugekitai as well as the singer for the ultranationalist punk band “The Revolutionary Truth.” Suffering Forces Us to Think beyond the Right–Left Barrier