A recording of Ken Kawashima and Gavin Walker presenting on ‘Theory & Crisis: Translating Marxism in Japan’ as part of the 2022/23 CPCT research seminar on ‘Translating Global Critical Theory’. This session stages a dialogue with Kawashima and Walker on their work editing, translating, interpreting and creatively applying the work of Tosaka Jun, Uno Kōzō and Kōjin Karatani to our current theoretical conjuncture.