Marxism Today, which became a great monthly of the CPGB, in the 80's
under then Eurocommunist, Martin Jacques, ran a few pieces on the JCP. Had
some Maoist currents but, in the general ideological family of the PCI
under Enrico Berlinguer. One time at a URPE conference @ UCB, a member of
the JCP talked for a while. He was extremely anti-Soviet. And, you know,
for me, that's saying alot.
http://www.jcp.or.jp/english/
http://www.jcp.or.jp/english/sengen-e.html
> ...The violations of freedom and democracy including the right to
> national self-determination, perpetrated by the Soviet Union since
> Stalin, meant to throw away the principles of scientific socialism and
> overturn the course of the transitional period toward socialism laid out
> during Lenin's era; they decisively degenerated and degraded Soviet
> society into a system suppressing the people, which is totally alien to
> socialism. The collapse from 1989 to 1991 of the Soviet Union and its
> subordinate regimes in the Eastern European countries was the result of
> this system's degeneration and degradation.
Facing the aggravation of hegemonism of the Soviet Union and others, the Japanese Communist Party made clear early on its resolute position of fighting any expression of hegemonism, and it defended the independence of the revolutionary and democratic movements in each country and the principled position of scientific socialism, defeated interventions in the Japanese movement, and struggled against the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan. The JCP has made clear its course and policy of never taking any foreign experience as a model, and that it will defend and develop Three Freedoms in the context of Japanese society, a highly developed capitalist country.
The Japanese Communist Party will take over and develop into the future the true position of scientific socialism as the consistent defender of freedom and democracy, and will continue working together with the people, along the independent road toward an independent and democratic Japan, and a socialist Japan.