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...police knew the identity of their enemy: four splinter groups in Zengakuren, the faction-ridden Japanese student federation. The vast majority of Zengakuren members, including the Communists, stayed away from the riots. Those who did riot, like the New Left everywhere, regard the Communists as bourgeois and politically backward and consider themselves the "conscience of the nation." $1,000,000 Damages. As the battle for Shinjuku station wore on through the night, the Public Safety Commission held an emergency session and ordered the imposition of the antiriot law, which provides penalties of up to ten years in jail. Previously, rioters...
Once admitted to a university, a student theoretically becomes a member of the Zengakuren, the national federation of student governments. Actually only a few thousand of the Zengakuren's members are convinced radicals, but they nonetheless constitute a cadre of professional riot organizers, who almost annually create a governmental crisis...
...theater at its most negative. Through a misty drizzle, the gleaming forest of black umbrellas and red, blue and yellow banners moved down Tokyo's neon-lit Ginza. "Down with the Sato government!" bellowed the Zengakuren students, Socialist Party workers and Sohyo union members, as they marched past hordes of riot cops in blue plastic helmets with Plexiglas face shields. Then the drizzle gave way to a pelting downpour, and what had been billed as the boldest anti-government "demo" in five years sputtered out like a drenched fuse...
...protest against another U.S. visitor-the nuclear submarine Seadragon, which called last week at the Sasebo naval base on the southern island of Kyushu. But Japan has come a long way from 1960. There were some nasty-looking demonstrations in Tokyo and elsewhere, whipped up by the Socialists and Zengakuren, the far-left student organization. Cops banged heads as fluttering banners inveighed against Showa no kuro bune-the Black Ship of the Enlightened Peace Era. But the left-wingers were divided and the people generally unimpressed by scare slogans about the dangers of nuclear radiation. Most Japanese calmly watched...
...good cause for hating A-bombs, a drizzle discouraged demonstrators, but about 600 chorused antibomb songs in front of the U.S. embassy in Tokyo. U.S. Ambassador Edwin Reischauer later was heckled by 800 students at Kanazawa University, where he was lecturing on modern Japanese history. Some 800 leftist Zengakuren youths pushed and got pushed by cops who rather easily kept them away from the U.S. embassy. In Great Britain, where peace movements are strong, 1,500 marchers paraded past the U.S. embassy in London's Grosvenor Square, chanting "No more tests." Read some of the signs: "God Save...