SEALDs, short for Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy, was a student activist organisation in Japan that organised protests against the ruling coalition headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
SEAL Ds logo
Demonstration near the National Diet Building, March 2016
Shinzo Abe was a Japanese statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest
SEALDs
…no gakusei kinkyū kōdō), was a student activist organisation in Japan that organised protests against the ruling coalition headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2015 and 2016. Its focus was on the Legislation for Peace and Security enacted in 2015 that allow the Japanese Self-Defense Force to be deployed…
The Abe family in 1956 (left to right): his mother Yōko, Shinzo at the age of two, his father Shintaro and his elder brother Hironobu
Shinzo (center) with his family and grandfather Nobusuke Kishi (4th left), who influenced Abe's beliefs
Memorial monument for Shinzō Abe at Osaka Gokoku Shrine in Osaka Japan