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The Shinjuku riot (Japanese: 新宿騒乱, Hepburn: Shinjuku sōran) was a violent clash between police and anti-Vietnam War protesters who occupied Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, Japan, on 21 October 1968. The incident took place in the context of mass demonstrations in observation of "International Anti-War Day".
In 1968 and 1969, student protests at several Japanese universities ultimately forced the closure of campuses across Japan. Known as daigaku funsō (大学紛争, lit. 'university troubles') [1] or daigaku tōsō (大学闘争, 'university struggles'), [2] the protests were part of the worldwide protest cycle in 1968 [3] and the late-1960s Japanese protest cycle, including the Anpo protests of ...
The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, which were predominantly characterized by the rise of left-wing politics, [1] anti-war sentiment, civil rights urgency, youth counterculture within the silent and baby boomer generations, and popular rebellions against military states and bureaucracies.
Mitsuko Tokoro (所 美都子, Tokoro Mitsuko, January 3, 1939 – January 27, 1968), also known by her pen name Mimie Tomano, was a Japanese biologist and New Left activist remembered as one of the leading theorists of the apolitical and radically anti-hierarchical Zenkyōtō movement that carried out the 1968-69 Japanese student uprisings at universities across Japan.
February 19: 1968–69 Japanese university protests sparked over a dispute within the University of Tokyo medical school. March. March 2: ...
The turmoil we’re seeing brings back memories of the widespread student protests of 1968 — a comparison that won’t be lost given that the Democratic National Convention this year will take ...
In 1970, following the collapse of the 1968-1969 university protests, a number of New Left sects and the anti-Vietnam War organization Beheiren held a series of protest marches against the Security Treaty. [30] However, prime minister Eisaku Satō opted to ignore the protests completely and allow the treaty to automatically renew. [30]
Japan’s government protested Friday to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo over at least two sexual assault cases involving American servicemembers on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa which were ...