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Word: sohyo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dear Students, Please Do Not Enter." The mob pulled down an iron gate, temporarily captured five riot trucks and launched a lusty exchange of stickwork that left 83 policemen and 20 students injured. Next targets were the railway stations, where the students joined the big Red-tainted labor union Sohyo in setting up a general strike for the following morning. The method: strangling commuter traffic by kidnaping motormen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tightening the Screws | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...through the predawn hours, the mob squatted on the tracks, stopped 650 trains, and hustled the motormen away in taxis, consoling each captive with a 1,000-yen note ($2.80), which a Sohyo organizer peeled from a thick wad of bills in his hand. With traffic effectively halted, mobs snake-danced through the streets, paraded past the Diet and the U.S. embassy, shouting "Down with Kishi" and "Eisenhower don't come." Ranging from Communists to Kabuki actors,* the mob included one group whose banner bore a likeness of Christ; true to the left-wing bias common among students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tightening the Screws | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...Committee for Freedom of Expression, National Conference for Reopening of Japan-China Relations. They provide the intellectual leadership for such huge outfits as Nikkyoso, the 600,000-strong teachers union; Zengakuren, a nationwide student pressure group; and, most important of all, the ultra-left-wing labor union federation called Sohyo (3^ million members), which has backed many of the recent demonstrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Anti-Kishi Riots | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...police some of their former authority, including the right to search suspected criminals. The response was tumultuous from those who remembered the tyrannical "thought-control" days. A brief teachers' walkout closed half the nation's schools. There was a rash of strikes and street demonstrations called by Sohyo, the powerful, 3,500,000-strong alliance of labor unions. Socialist delegates rioted in the Diet and tried to kidnap the Speaker to prevent a vote. When even important members of his own party proved hesitant, Kishi had to shelve the bill. But with characteristic skill he used the defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Bonus to Be Wisely Spent | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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