Word: zengakuren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pushing the bill through the upper house, the Socialists gave the signal for the mobs to move into the streets in strength. But this time the major newspapers, which had egged on last year's riots, were critical of the demonstrators; only the hard-core Sohyo unionists and Zengakuren students turned out. One crowd of 27,000 swarmed into Hibiya Park in downtown Tokyo to shout "Down with the Ikeda government!" Then the chanting demonstrators shuffled off toward the Diet, a few blocks away, inching their way along at ushi aruki (cow's pace) so that traffic...
...Japan," Asanuma organized the snake-dancing demonstrations that kept President Eisenhower away from Japan last June. Since then, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi and Socialist Jotaro Kawakami have both been stabbed by fanatics. This did not deter the Socialists from launching further violent demonstrations. Crying "Down with Ikeda," left-wing Zengakuren students charged police barricades at the Diet, began their ritualistic snake dance before the Premier's official residence...
...threat to parliamentarianism has never been eradicated. It was third in a series of attempts made on eminent political figures since last June. The first assassin, attacking the life of a moderate Socialist leader, had no relations with a rightist group, and except for his hatred of the Zengakuren, he committed his act in a schizophrenic fit. The second attacker, aiming at Kishi, had no intention of killing him, but wanted merely to punish the prime minister for having "clumsily handled the problems of the Liberal Democratic Party." The third incident differed from the previous two in that the youth...
...thought, sympathized with Indonesia's efforts to create "a new world free from suppression and misery." Indonesia forthwith threatened to break relations with Japan, and declared that a $20 million contract to buy Japanese textiles was "in danger." Japanese Socialists pronounced the visit "utterly intolerable," and the Zengakuren student federation threatened demonstrations. Last week Japan caved in, withdrew its invitation...
...sponsored attack on North Korea" ten years ago. But the force and fury had largely gone out of them. Japan's conservatives were even treated to the spectacle of a falling-out among the Marxists when Japan's Communist Party denounced the Trotskyite faction of the Zengakuren student federation for provoking the police to "murder" Coed Michiko Kamba during the assault on the Diet building (in fact, Miss Kamba was trampled to death by her own fleeing comrades). Roaring with outrage, 200 Zengakuren members assaulted the Reds' Tokyo headquarters, began a brawl that ended with one Communist...