Zengakuren
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Zengakuren is a league of university student associations founded in 1948 in Japan. The word Zengakuren is an abridgement of Zen Nihon Gakusei Jichikai Sō Rengō which literally means "All-Japan Federa
Demonstrators and police buses outside the Japanese National Diet on Friday September 18, 2015, during the debate in the House of Councillors shortly before the 2015 Japanese military legislation was passed in the early hours of September 19th. A Zengakuren banner is visible in the middle of the image.
Zengakuren protestors in Tokyo, 1968
Sanrizuka Struggle
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The Sanrizuka Struggle is a series of civil conflicts and riots involving the Japanese government and the agricultural community of Sanrizuka, comprising organised opposition by farmers, local residen
Zengakuren
…movement, the anti-military base movement, the Anpo protests against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, the 1968–1969 Japanese university protests, and the struggle against the construction of Narita Airport. Zengakuren emerged in the early postwar period as students at Japanese universities established self-governing associations (jichikai) in order to…
Horses at Goryō Farm in 1930
Anti-airport protesters' equipment and weapons
The tower built on the construction site by opposition members
A protesting farmer, 1982