The case pitted Storch Heinar, the anti-racist and anti-fascist label, against Thor Steinar, the cult label for far rightist movements here.
Yoshitomo Kobayashi, 33, a construction worker who has spent years in various rightist movements, said he had been attracted to the groups that operate sound trucks by his disillusionment with the weakness and corruption of Japanese political leaders.
Such sentiment is concentrated in, but not exclusive to, eastern Germany, where high unemployment and the frustrations of adapting to life in a united Germany have fed rightist movements.
But in the final days before Sunday's vote, a fringe party that wants to scrap the euro is gaining in the polls, threatening to scramble the country's consensus politics with a message that has echoes of the Tea Party in America and rightist movements elsewhere in Europe.
Guben, a town on the Polish border with an unemployment rate of more than 20percentt, is an unhappy symbol of the towns in the formerly Communist eastern part of Germany, where frustration at the less than glorious results of capitalist transformation have fed rightist movements.
Mao's anti-rightist movement marked him out and he was called to Beijing to undergo self-criticism.
Four days later falls the 50th anniversary of the "anti-rightist movement", a sweeping campaign launched by Mao Zedong to crush dissent.
In 1981, five years after the death of Mao, the party ruled that the anti-rightist movement had gone too far; all but a handful of those labelled as rightists were rehabilitated.
It was followed by an anti-rightist movement that purged the cultural ranks of most preliberation writers and artists and deprived many young writers such as Liu Binyan and Wang Meng of their freedom to write.
Now, he says, Chinese leaders are too afraid of losing control.This fear is reflected in the party's refusal to address the complaints of victims of the anti-rightist movement.
