This is an introduction to the Japanese proletarian composer Eiki Araki, mainly based on the “Araki Eiki” entry in the Japanese Wikipedia[1]：
Eiki Araki, male, Japanese proletarian composer, born in Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture, on October 15, 1924. Coming from a coal miner family. Started working as a mechanical assembler at Mitsui Mining Mitsui Miike Coal Mine (Mitsui Miike Coal Mine) at the age of 15. After Japan’s fascist surrender, he began to learn musical instruments and officially started composing in 1950. Subsequently, he participated in struggles against job evaluation movements, Mitsui Miike Coal Mine protests, anti-U.S. imperialist base movements, and created many workers’ songs during this process. His representative works include “We Will Keep Going,” “Let This Victory Resound,” and “Return Okinawa.” Joined the Japanese Communist Party in 1959. Eiki Araki died of stomach cancer on October 26, 1962, at the age of only 38.
(Eiki Araki)
(Below are some personal lyrics of selected works. Mainly translated with ChatGPT, with comparisons to other versions and modifications; some parts are paraphrased.)
1. We Will Keep Going to the End (Lyrics by Yaeji Morita, Music by Eiki Araki)[2]
We will keep going to the end! Raise high to the sky
The fists of men as hard as steel
The fists of women burning like flames
The battle begins here, the battle starts nowWe will keep going to the end! Raise high to the sky
The fists of comrades tightly linked
The fists of friends rushing in
The battle begins here, the battle starts nowWe will keep going to the end! Raise high to the sky
The fists of people worldwide and ours
The call for victory resounds loudly, forming a torrent
The battle begins here, the battle starts now【Hooray!】がんばろう！突き上げる 空へ
くろがねの男の こぶしがある
燃え上がる女の こぶしがある
戦いはここから 戦いは今からがんばろう！突き上げる 空へ
輪をつなぐ仲間の こぶしがある
押し寄せる仲間の こぶしがある
戦いはここから 戦いは今からがんばろう！突き上げる 空へ
国の内外（うちそと）の こぶしがある
勝ち鬨（かちどき）を呼ぶ こぶしは一つ
戦いはここから 戦いは今から （オゥ！）2. Let This Victory Resound (Lyrics and music by Eiki Araki)
On the green avenue of Chikushino
We march with hundreds of thousands of soldiers
Our red flags flutter in the spring breeze
Our songs echo in the sky
Toward the target of surrounding Itabashi base
Our ranks continue to advanceJets took away our legs
An old woman with a cane shouts:
【Everyone, keep fighting,
Surely avenge us!】
Toward the target of surrounding Hyakumangoku[3]
Our ranks continue to advanceOver a hundred jets can no longer take off
The claws of war hide their figures
We surround Itabashi base,
The American imperialists are encircled by us!
Toward South Vietnam, toward South Korea!
Let this victory spread and resound!The green path of Chikushino
Advances with hundreds of thousands of ranks
The red flags flutter in the spring breeze
The songs echo in the sky
Aiming to encircle Itabashi base
Our ranks continue to marchJets lost their legs
The old woman with a crutch shouts:
「Everyone, keep fighting,
Surely avenge us…」
Encircling Hyakumangoku
Our ranks continue to marchA hundred jets cannot take off
The agents of war hide their figures
Itabashi is surrounded,
America is surrounded!
To South Vietnam, to South Korea!
Let this victory echo and thunder!3. Return Okinawa (Collective lyrics by the Fukuoka High Court Branch of the All-Judiciary, music by Eiki Araki)
Break through the hard soil
The island burning with the fire of nationalism—OkinawaWe and our ancestors
With blood and sweat
Guarded and nurtured this land—OkinawaWe shout, Okinawa
Our Okinawa belongs to us
Return Okinawa! 【Return!】 Return Okinawa!Break through the hard soil
The island burning with the fire of nationalism—OkinawaWe and our ancestors
With blood and sweat
Guarded and nurtured this land—OkinawaWe shout, Okinawa
Our Okinawa belongs to us
Return Okinawa! 【Return!】 Return Okinawa!固き土を破りて 民族の怒りに燃える島 沖縄よ
我等と我等の祖先が 血と汗をもて
守り育てた 沖縄よ
我等は叫ぶ沖縄よ 我等のものだ沖縄は
沖縄を返せ 【返せ】 沖縄を返せ固き土を破りて 民族の怒りに燃える島 沖縄よ
我等と我等の祖先が血と汗をもて
守り育てた 沖縄よ
我等は叫ぶ沖縄よ 我等のものだ沖縄は
沖縄を返せ 【返せ】 沖縄を返せ4. Forever Dawn in the Heart (Lyrics by Takashi Nagayama, music by Eiki Araki)
When the sunset falls
on the factory rooftops stained with smoke,
we scatter into the streets and alleys
to ignite the flames in the hearts of youth and girls.
There is no more darkness in our hearts, forever dawn!
There is no more darkness in our hearts, forever dawn!When the morning sun shines
on the factory windows stained with smoke,
we disperse to our respective posts
to ensure the hearts of youth and girls are no longer clouded.
There is no more darkness in our hearts, forever dawn!
There is no more darkness in our hearts, forever dawn!The sunset and the sunrise
are our comrades in labor
【Yes, let’s work hard today too!】
illuminating the future that will surely come
Youth and girls, be proud of yourselves
There is no more darkness in our hearts, forever dawn!
There is no more darkness in our hearts, forever dawn!
Wasn’t the Japanese Communist Party already amended in '59?
I. Early Party Formation: Revolutionary Party under the Leadership of the Communist International (1922–1945)
The Japanese Communist Party was established in 1922 as a proletarian party directly guided by the Communist International, with the goals of:
- Overthrowing Japanese imperialism and the imperial system
- Establishing proletarian dictatorship
- Achieving socialist revolution
The overall line during this period was revolutionary, but it was brutally suppressed by Japanese militarism, with many cadres arrested and sacrificed, and the party organization severely damaged.
II. Post-War Legalization: The Revolutionary Line Begins to Waver (1945–1955)
After Japan’s defeat in the war, under the control of the American occupation forces, the Japanese Communist Party gained legal status.
The key turning point was:
- The party gradually abandoned the path of armed revolution
- Shifted the focus of struggle to parliamentary legal activities
- Accepted the bourgeois constitutional framework
Around 1955, the party established the so-called “peaceful revolution” and “parliamentary transition” line, which is a typical revisionist theory:- Denies that the bourgeois state machinery must be shattered
- Denies the inevitability of violent revolution
From then on, the Japanese Communist Party began transforming from a revolutionary party into a parliamentary reformist party.
III. Merging with Modern Revisionism (After 1956)
After the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956, Khrushchev’s group fully implemented revisionist policies.
Japanese Communist Party:
- Accepted theories such as “national state” and “mass party”
- Denied the dictatorship of the proletariat
- Denied the continued existence of class struggle
Essentially, it followed the trend of modern revisionism.
IV. Openly Opposing Mao Zedong Thought and Fully Turning Revisions (1960s–1970s)
During the Sino-Soviet debate, the Japanese Communist Party not only failed to oppose revisionism but:
- Attacked the Chinese Communist Party
- Attacked Mao Zedong Thought
- Denied the struggle against revisionism and for anti-revisionism
Its main line points:
1. Deny that imperialist war is inevitable
2. Promote the theory of peaceful coexistence as万能 (all-powerful)
3. Promote the parliamentary road to achieve socialism
This marked its complete transformation into a revisionist party.
V. Essence: Small-Bourgeois Parliamentary Party
By the late 20th century, the Japanese Communist Party had formed stable revisionist characteristics:
- Primarily engaged in electoral activities
- Maintained the bourgeois parliamentary system
- Did not organize revolutionary struggles
- Did not prepare to overthrow bourgeois rule
Its social base mainly includes:
- Small bourgeoisie
- Worker aristocracy
- Intellectuals within the system
It was no longer the vanguard of the revolutionary proletariat.
Conclusion (Class Characterization)
The fundamental reason why the Japanese Communist Party turned revisionist is:
Abandoning violent revolution → Abandoning proletarian dictatorship → Accepting bourgeois state framework → Becoming a reformist party
In one sentence:
Degenerated from a proletarian revolutionary party into a legitimate opposition that maintains capitalist order.
The “petty bourgeois parliamentary party” is ridiculous; the Japanese Communist Party is a genuine bourgeois, revisionist party, right?
Moreover, there is a lack of critique regarding Miyamoto Motoharu’s revisionist line. When the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) adopted a rightist opportunist line, advocating for a peaceful transition, it was considered a revision after the war—specifically, it was seen as a revision immediately after Stalin’s death. The symbolic event was the death of Den Tadao, after which Miyamoto’s faction launched a coup, framing and accusing important figures like Ito Ryuuro of the Kōtetsu faction, and expelled him from the party, thoroughly controlling the JCP. The JCP had already revised in 1953.
I see, understood 
Additionally, I made a subjective mistake by placing content generated by ChatGPT into the post without possessing the materials or conducting investigation and analysis. The key to using bourgeois tools effectively still lies in people; without discernment, one might end up being led by bourgeois tools.